Thursday, August 2 07

"Largest ever" peacekeeping operation is tasked under the UN Charter's Chapter 7, but nevertheless involves a new, hybridized military intervention. Here is it's operational framework (1), initial announcement by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon (2), plus an expanding U.N. news source (3). Allan Gregg ruminates about the links between national identity and peacekeeping in Canada. Just as UNHCR Arbour praises Rwanda's abolition of capital punishment, an expatriate accused of participating in 1994 genocide requests Canadian war crimes prosecutions, citing the potential for human rights abuses in Rwanda. U.N. Sec. Gen. Ban Ki-moon endorses troika cooperation to settle Kosovo tensions.