His command of local UN forces is but one of a string of peacekeeping posts he has held in the past two decades, none as comfortable as this.
Richard Gowan, an expert on the UN at the European Council on Foreign Relations said: "The big question is whether Guterres has had to offer Russia and China big concessions to let him win, such as senior political or peacekeeping posts at UN headquarters.
The United States, for its part, has floated the idea that NATO should play a role in peacekeeping in post-war Iraq.
In the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations, author David Horner stated that the Australian government led by Robert Menzies was loath to criticise South Africa during the 1950s.
Based on the real life story of Nebraska cop Kathy Bolkovac, who gets a job with an international peacekeeping force in post-war Bosnia, the new movie is a thriller in which some members of the UN and U.S. State Department collude with contractors in the lucrative trade of human trafficking.
It comes as no surprise that President Bush is wary of devoting American troops to a peacekeeping commitment in a post-Taliban Afghanistan (front page, Oct. 14).
It calls on UN institutions and member states to ensure women's full and meaningful participation in all peace processes, including conflict prevention, peace negotiations, peace-building, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and post-conflict reconstruction.
The resolution stresses the importance of women's equal participation and full involvement in all efforts for maintaining and promoting peace and security, including: peace negotiations, peacebuilding, peacekeeping, humanitarian response and post-conflict reconstruction.
Lt. Gen. Kampanart Ruddit, commander of the government's peacekeeping forces, told the Bangkok Post that he was "duty-bound" to comply with any orders of Prayuth, whom he credited with commitment to creating conditions of calm that will allow the country "to move forward".
Even if by some miracle that were to happen, so much more blood would be spilled along the way that we would still need an international peacekeeping force to referee any post-Assad power-sharing deal.
