Russian Federation DISEC Challenges to UN Peacekeeping and the Capstone Doctrine Anish Gaurav Sherwood College, Nainital (UK)
INTRODUCTION Honourable Chair, the Russian Government believes that the peace keeping troops lack necessary training, equipment and logistical support. Threats to the safety and security of UN Field personnel have become an issue of great concern. Honourable Chair, Russian Government demands for more funding for operations on its borders as my government believes that no peacekeeping operation can be successful without the availability of properly trained personnel.
STAND The government of Russia would also like to draw the attention of the committee towards the methods of UN Peacekeeping. It is a traditional model development during the cold war era as a means of resolving conflicts between the states and involved deployment of unarmed or lightly armed military personnel between belligerent parties. The rise in number of intra-state conflicts has resulted in a shift towards multi-dimensional peacekeeping operations that are often mandate to support the implementation of a comprehensive peace argument between parties to a civil war. This has, in turn led to an expansion of the non-military component of peacekeeping operations whose success is increasingly dependent on the work of civilian experts in key areas such as the law of rule, human rights, gender, child protection and elections.
Moving global, the peacekeeping operation in Somalia wasn’t successful
largely because it consistently experienced funding shortfalls. It is regrettable that most African nations do not have the capacity to adequately support their deployed farces for peacekeeping operations. Therefore, the Russian federation believes it is imperative to enhance the deployment capability of African nations. The establishment of AFRICAN STANDBY FORCE (ASF) is a major step towards building the capacity of African forces in terms of logistic readiness and training of personnel for peacekeeping operations. However, ASF cannot be achieved without adequate logistic and financial support.
VIEWS AND POSSIBLE SOLUTION The government of Russia believes it is time to shift gears from old method of cessations of armed clashes to new methods of peace building operations. As peacekeeping operations are ultimately a tool in the hands of UN Security Council and the mandate given to specific missions are generated through political process that requires trade off. Therefore real peacekeeping is not likely fitting the exact measure up to success factors formulated in the Doctrine. My government urges the United Nations to come to a better conclusion in consideration of Capstone Doctrine.
