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...Democratic Republic of Congo) appears overwhelmed as rival military forces, from rebels to the nation's army, take turns ravaging parts of the country. Alan Doss is perhaps the world's foremost expert on peacekeeping. In a lifetime career at the U.N., he ran the peacekeeping operations in Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Sierra Leone before being transferred to Congo in October 2007. He spoke to TIME's Africa bureau chief, Alex Perry, by telephone while en route to U.N. headquarters in Geneva and then the U.N. Security Council in New York...
...United Nations could be very effective in preventing both military and humanitarian crises. The UN Peacekeeping forces are undermanned and underfunded, resulting in a frustration and helplessness that in the past has manifested itself in alleged rape, prostitution, and pedophilia in UN peacekeeping efforts in the Congo, Haiti, Burundi, Liberia, and elsewhere. While the allegations are typical of most military campaigns, better pay and a more promising military outcome could reduce their incidence...
...This kind of Hope, in time will span across oceans to other historically marginalized and subjugated minorities. Already in Liberia, a country founded by freed American slaves, poor little boys on crutches, dismembered by wars of intolerance, are wobbling across the soccer field wearing “Yes, We Can!” t-shirts...
...against a range of key governance indicators," the foundations annual survey reported. Indeed, some of Africa's brightest hopes are those that until recently had been some of its most depressing stories. Several of the continent's fastest-growing economies are former war zones, such as Angola, Mozambique and Liberia, and - with Angola a notable exception - many of those are also showing most improvement in governance. The index assesses national governments against 57 criteria divided into five broad categories: safety and security; rule of law, transparency and corruption; participation and human rights; sustainable economic opportunity; and human development. Most improved...
...judicial and diplomatic tool of international justice, skeptics should heed the three important lessons that recent cases can teach. First, while international courts may be the ones that issue the initial indictments and arrest warrants, it is the local authorities themselves - as we have seen in Serbia, Chile and Liberia and will eventually see in Sudan - who need to be convinced that the benefits of ridding their societies of global villains exceed the costs. Second, that will is more likely to be created by concentrated regional action than by generic international pressure. It was African leaders like Thabo Mbeki...