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...puede,” (“Yes we can.”), Negretti challenged the crowd to consider a new motto—“¿Què haremos?” (“What will we do?”). “Your mission is to leave here and ask yourself, ‘¿Que haremos?’What will each of us leave here to do to meet the challenges of our new frontier?” she said. This was the fifth annual presentation of the New Frontier Awards...
...committee’s mission is being shaped in response to a University Health Services College committee meeting that was attended by students and administrators, said Holoshitz, who presented the idea for the committee to the UC as a whole at last night’s meeting...
...countries have exposed the limitations of peacekeeping as much as Congo. MONUC (the initials for the French translation of the United Nations Mission in the 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...
...disintegrating. That's one of the big dilemmas for us. We came out to Congo with a certain function - to reinforce the authority of the state. But now the [U.N. Security] Council will have to reconsider this. Events of the last two months have just run over [our mission]. The Congolese army needs root and branch reform, but security-sector reform is a long-term project. So how do we deal with the situation in the meantime? Protection is our mission. But if those we are protecting are also involved, it's a very difficult situation...
...operations? Every case is different. Darfur is very different. Every time a U.N. peacekeeping force deploys, it raises lots of questions. But yes, there are issues raised by our experience that will have a long-term effect. There is a very fine line between peacekeeping and peace enforcement. Our mission was equipped for peacekeeping. And as one of my officers says, you don't go to war in blue helmets and white tanks. When we shift from a monitoring group to one that takes on military elements, we have to change the way we operate. We have to acquire different...