And the U.N., which is struggling to manage sixteen peacekeeping operations around the world, could avoid being handed yet another doomed mission.
Gregory Grene noted that his brother, after first writing speeches for Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali in the 1990s, eventually began serving in one peacekeeping mission after another.
As the United Nations maintains nine peacekeeping operations in Africa, employing over 100,000 people on the continent, the abuses threaten to erode the organization's legitimacy.
A recent Pentagon report, the Reserve Component Employment Study 2005, predicted that five years from now there would still be at least two peacekeeping missions like Bosnia and Kosovo.
President Bush is expected to decide soon whether to send as many as 2,000 American troops to back up two peacekeeping brigades to be deployed from Nigeria.
After several hours of intense negotiations behind closed doors, the Council held a brief public meeting to adopt the compromise text and to renew the mandates of two peacekeeping missions that had been held hostage by the dispute.
NATO, for instance, is now playing a valuable role in Afghanistan, but neither it nor the African Union -- even less the fledgling Community of Democracies -- could contemplate taking over the eight peacekeeping missions that the United Nations currently has deployed in Africa.
Today, protection is at the heart of modern UN Peacekeeping, with ten peacekeeping operations, containing 95percentt of all our deployed personnel, having a mandate to protect civilians.
Waste water treatment and recycling projects are installed in nine peacekeeping missions, with the goal to eventually implement it in all of our operations.
For Major Catherine Kipngok, an officer in charge of personnel services at the Kenya Defense Forces, who has been deployed in two peacekeeping missions in South Sudan and in Central Africa Republic, the training has been an eye-opener.
