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intervention and, consequently, a of the crisis-torn country invites/ 1. A concept introduced by and adapted
from Michael S. Lund (Curve of confl ict)
strong adherence in the HN of the send a request to the internatio- 2. https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/
peacekeepers intervention. In con- nal community (request for help) what-is-peacekeeping
clusion, it is necessary to agree on for a peacekeeping or a capacity 3. https://www.un.org/en/A4P/
one thing: with a solid peacekee- building mission. The emphasis I 4. http://assembly.coe.int/nw/xml/
XRef/X2H-Xref-ViewHTML.asp?FileI-
ping mission we can reach a na- want to put in this article, with the D=11332&lang=en
tion-building result with consensus. experience lived in crisis areas, is 5. ‘Institution-building as a Bridge between
Peacekeeping and Peacebuilding: Con-
directed to have real and not only necting the Security and Peace Nexus’,
formal (legal) consent. In fact ha- in Challenges Annual Forum, Institu-
ving the formal/legal consent si- tion- and Capacity-building for Peace:
Implications of the UN’s Review Panels’
gned by the parties( i.e. National Recommendations for Future Missions
Political Authority of the country in (Yerevan, 2015). International Forum
crisis and UN/EU/NATO/AU), it is For The Challenges Of Peace Opera-
tions, Policy brief 2016:1,
possible to deploy an armed/unar- 6. United Nations, Peacebuilding in the
med intervention conducted by fo- aftermath of confl ict, Report of the Se-
cretary-General, A/67/499-S/2012/745,
reign armed/police forces in an 8 October 2012, paras. 43 & 44.
HN(using weapons, uniforms and 7. United Nations, Civilian capacity in the
means, etc.). What I would like to aftermath of confl ict, Report of the Se-
cretary-General, A/67/312-S/2012/645,
point out in the back of the arti- 15 August 2012, para. 8.
cle is that the real consensus exists 8. https://academicimpact.un.org/content/
capacity-building
and permeates down to the lowest 9. https://www.un.org/en/ecosoc/qcpr/
levels of local authorities (political pdf/sgr2016-deskreview-capdev.pdf
and police) arriving to the ordinary 10. https://monusco.unmissions.
org/r%C3%A9solutions-du-con-
citizen. If there is no real conviction seil-de-s%C3%A9curit%C3%A9
(alias consensus latu sensu) on https://minusma.un-
the part of individuals belonging missions.org/mandat-0
https://unifi l.unmis-
to the country in crisis, whether sions.org/unifi l-mandate
they are political offi cials, public https://minusca.unmissions.org/histori-
offi cials or even ordinary citizens, que-0
to open up and accept, acquire,
learn, share, collaborate, imple-
ment, improve the various proce-
dures, systems and ways of acting,
not much can be done to really
help that country out of the crisis.
Where is the consensus or how
much is that consensus effective if I
have, on the one hand, a mission
foreseen by a mandate counter-
The more the consensus will be wide signed by the benefi ciary country
and real, the easiest will be the im- in crisis and on the other hand,
plementation of the measures un- on the ground, I clash with the
dertaken and the tangible results local authorities at a lower level?
in the eyes of the local population
and the international community.
The importance of the consen-
sus, in my view, derives from the
fact that this should not only be
understood as a formal element PICTURES: Capt. Nicola Carrera
UN.org
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