The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday May 29th, 2023
The United Nations Peacekeeping Forces, Weak but Necessary. by Rene Wadlow
29 May is the International Day of the United Nations Peacekeepers. The day was chosen in memory of the creation of the first UN interposition force in the Middle East. In the years since, 3,800 have lost their lives. Today there are 14 operations. The most difficult are in Africa where there has been large scale breakdown of State structures such as the Central African Republic, South Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
The deployment of U.N. peace-keeping forces is only one aspect of conflict resolution and peace building. However U.N. peace-keeping forces are the most visible (and expensive) aspect of the U.N. peace-building efforts. Thus our attention must be justly given to the role, the financing, and the practice of U.N. peace-keeping forces.
How effective are U.N. peacekeeping operations in preventing and stopping violence? Are there alternatives to the ways that U.N. and regional organizations currently carry out peacekeeping operations? How effective are peacekeeping operations in addressing the root causes of conflicts? How does one measure the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations? We must ask questions of their effectiveness and if these military personnel should not be complemented by other forms of peace-building.
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I will not fade away #poem by Amir Khatib
“I will not fade away, as they say,
Rather, I will be absent for a long time,
I do not return to homeland like a refugee dreams,
It emerged in another place,
And a sheep may come across me in a pasture, and bite me,
And re-ruminate”
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Ghostin’ #65 by Thanos Kalamidas
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