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...effort to get other NATO countries to share the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) burden in Afghanistan, Merkel last week insisted she would not send German troops in the volatile southern region. And Sarkozy has already hinted that his forces are already stretched due to ongoing missions in Chad, Kosovo, Congo and Lebanon...
...Peacekeeping is tricky, no doubt. De Waal is among those who have questioned whether we might have set our sights too high, and whether, while peacekeeping might work in small countries like Sierra Leone or East Timor or Kosovo, there may not be the resources to make it work for vast nations like the D.R.C. or Sudan. Evans, a former Australian Foreign Minister, is among those who believe that just because something is difficult, "it doesn't mean you abandon it." Says Evans: "In Congo, the problem is insufficient resources. Maybe MONUC has to be reinforced and upgraded. In Darfur...
...Johannesburg Bar for 17 years, including nine as a justice of South Africa’s Constitutional Court, established by Nelson Mandela to oversee the democratization of the country. He also helped establish another war crimes tribunal in the former Yugoslavia, chaired the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo from 1999 to 2001, and in 2004 was appointed to the UN’s Independent Inquiry Committee to investigate corruption in Iraq’s Oil for Food program. The MacArthur Foundation is one of the U.S.’s largest philanthropic organizations, with a $7 billion dollar endowment...
Ahtisaari, 71, may be best known for his work in Kosovo, where he helped midwife the cease-fire that led to the withdrawal of Serbian troops from the province after the NATO bombing campaign in 1999. He also played a key role when, as the United Nations' special envoy to the former Serbian province, he drew up a plan for its independence. That plan was ultimately vetoed by Russia in the U.N. Security Council. But many of its recommendations for power-sharing and administration are currently being implemented by the new government in Pristina. The Norwegian committee's decision...
...efforts have turned out well. Some diplomats believe the solution he helped draft to the Kosovo war in 1999, which stipulated that Kosovo remain under Serbia's control, left the problem unresolved and sowed the seeds for the recent flare-ups between the West and Russia in the Balkans and Caucasus. "It was not a good deal. We should have gone all the way," says a U.S. diplomat familiar with the compromise. Ahtisaari has also been criticized for supporting the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, which he did on humanitarian grounds...