simply by security considerations and when i put that question to the former had of the un peacekeeping operations he told me exactly that that there were products for that and that limiting exposure to the locals was deemed as one of the precautions he said that if you some people in harm's way you ought to give them that do you disagree with that yes they do so what it what you say is that is the kind of thing that i hear all the time when i when i talk to peacekeepers or peace builders and they always tell me oh it's because of security issues the thing is that when you go to places like timor leste the or jerusalem or are places like that where you have a really tall security issues or even cyprus where the security conditions are really good you still see the same kind of. tendency to live in a bubble so to me there is much more articulate than just security council so in addition to security and safety i think there is also an issue of neutrality of play here if the peacekeepers are seen hanging out in local rather than exploit bars don't you think that that may create a perception of bias d

that may not be so bad in the case of war but what about peace do councils of peace or the un peacekeeping operationsdeliberate what they set out to do well to discuss that i'm now joined by several of us there professor of political science at barnard college columbia university and the scholar of peacekeeping professor out us there is great pleasure talking to you thank you very much for your time thank you so much for having me professor let me start with a personal question i know you spent years studying african culture expects happened to be some of the dadley of conflicts on this planet and you studied them primarily through field work rather than social media which since to be the custom these days what made you so or attracted to these inherently dangerous subject well it's an inherited dent. subject but it's also fascinating and the impact that research can have if we can get things right if we can understand how to build peace what works in building peace that can impact the lives of millions of people so to me it's really worth it if i remember it may sound like a sexist question but as a

well i certainly agree with you in a sense that when we when we look at the goals of many un peacekeeping operations there they're turned in a very general very abstract language a confidence building power sharing strengthening the rule of law etc but we all know that the devil is always even the detail what does it take to operationalize what would work bask in the congolese context as opposed to let's say the syrian context i assume it's it's always different isn't it yes it's always different so i think that giving you an example would be the best way to answer your question there is an island in congo the. it's called each week it's right at the border between congo and rwanda so it's in the most violent area of congo and and it has everything all of the conditions that have led to violence in other parts of congo knowing that congo is the stage of the deadliest conflict since world war two between two and five million people have died there so each we has the same preconditions that you find around it you find lend conflict you can find extreme poverty ethnic tension sure stretch education eve

that may not be so bad in the case of war but what about peace do councils of peace or the un peacekeeping operations deliberate what they set out to do well to discuss that i'm now joined by several of us there professor of political science at barnard college columbia university and the scholar of peacekeeping professor out us there is great pleasure talking to you thank you very much for your time thank you so much for having me professor left me.

felt together as friends ok thank you for those optimistic observations the un currently has fourteen peacekeeping operations in crisis regions mostly it's about maintaining a tenuous peace between two or more conflict parties here are just two examples of the challenges that the blue helmets face. part of the un peacekeeping missions are in africa one is in mali fifteen thousand u.n. soldiers and civilian workers including several german aides are there to support the twenty thirteen peace agreement between the government and rebels since then war hasn't officially broken out but violence hasn't ended. terrorist attacks still occur the u.n. mission to mali and the new smart is one of the most deadly so far over one hundred u.n. personnel have been killed and the u.n. observer mission on dauphine the golan heights was long considered a quiet job. that is until the syrian civil war erupted suddenly the buffer zone between israel and syria was swarming with rebels terrorists and the syrian army. the u.n. had to retreat now israel has raised concerns that a rainy and troops could encroach upon their defense lin

have a look at un peacekeeping missions more than one hundred thousand military police and civilian personnel from one hundred twenty five countries currently serving fifteen operations mainly in africa haiti kosovo cyprus india pakistan and the middle east the largest mission is in the democratic republic of congo over more than sixteen thousand troops are the un's budget for peacekeeping a six point seven billion dollars less than half a one percent of global military spending the u.s. pays almost thirty percent of the bill china and japan the next biggest contributors with twenty percent between them. get our guests in a moment first we'll talk to joanne adams and deputy special representative of the secretary general and the united nations multi dimensional integrated stabilization force and malai she joins us via skype from comic o'malley thank you very much for joining us first of all very sorry about what has happened to your tear team there what more can you tell us about what happened thank you very much airshow for having me today so yes as you said we had a serious incident yesterday morning early in the morning when our camp in hawk in the very north of m

saying that the oil see has no experience in peacekeeping operation then president putin's with questions to those that initiated the reason lucian to create a un mission to defend to protect the lives of the ois see monitoring after says. that resolution was very simple it was based on an international agreement on the mandate. of the oil seal of the us and we were going to feel that it was for the good of the efforts. to support the misc agreements regardless of where all of the monitoring mission offices could be they should be protected defended by the un peacekeepers peacekeepers the whole notion that was in our initiative i want western carlos u.s. colleagues and for most of who responded to that with their rules which occurred came up with that rule he is a special envoy for the future settlement of the crisis that this is more to the rules he said forward so youth would be more were against the misc agreements he did not want to shoot with a view of the. new rules to help of two people decides to come to agreement on board he wanted to deploy thirty thousand or human to military officers his rule under the un ban us was to have a weapon

have a look at un peacekeeping missions more than one hundred thousand military police and civilian personnel from one hundred twenty five countries currently serving fifteen operations mainly in africa haiti kosovo cyprus india pakistan and the middle east the largest mission is in the democratic republic of congo where more than sixteen thousand troops are the un's budget for peacekeeping is six point seven billion dollars less than half of one percent of global military spending the u.s. pays almost thirty percent of the bill china and japan the next biggest contributors with twenty percent between them. get our guests in a moment first we'll talk to joanne addict and deputy special representative of the secretary general and the united nations multi-dimensional integrated stabilization force and mali she joins us via skype from bhaumik o'malley thank you very much for joining us first of all very sorry about what has happened to your tear team there what more can you tell us about what happened. thank you very much airshow for having me today so yes as you said we had a serious incident yesterday morning and early in the morning when our camp in hawk in the very

have a look at un peacekeeping missions more than one hundred thousand military police and civilian personnel from one hundred twenty five countries currently serving fifteen operations mainly in africa haiti kosovo cyprus india pakistan and the middle east the largest mission is in the democratic republic of congo over more than sixteen thousand troops are the un's budget for peacekeeping is six point seven billion dollars less than half of one percent of global military spending the us pays almost thirty percent of the bill china and japan the next biggest contributors with twenty percent between them. get our guests in a moment first we'll talk to joanne adamson deputy special representative of the secretary general and the united nations multi-dimensional integrated stabilization force and malai she joins us via skype from palm thank you very much for joining us first of all very sorry about what has happened to your tear team there what more can you tell us about what happened thank you very much airshow for having me today so yes as you said we had a serious incident yesterday morning and early in the morning when our camp in hawk in the very north of mali was