The United Nations Organization Mission in the Congo (MONUC) was established in August 1999 as a small, unarmed observer force to monitor a cease-fire signed between the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), one rebel group and five regional States in Lusaka, Zambia....
The initial section of this article aims at spreading ideas about the current complexities of the ongoing conflict areas, either in the framework of the UN Security Council legitimate intervention or in a situation of violence perpetrated by the State itself or by any armed group; situations in which the civilian personnel performing peace process related activities or providing support to the local population need to face in order to accomplish their tasks...
At present, in the international scenario, Brazil has become more and more important, either by its natural resources or by the highly skilled Brazilian professionals. Our Armed Forces have taken the same path, by means of specialized professionals with a lot of expertise, and have also targeted on mastering foreign languages as the most adequate and strategic way of standing out within the ambit of international relations....
At the end of 2003 and beginning of 2004, when Brazil decided to take part in the new United Nations mission in Haiti, and especially, according to the agreement with the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) that the country would have the military leadership of the peace operation, the contingents' training for this type of mission had as reference the procedures used to deploy contingents in Angola in the 90s...
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This article focuses on protection of civilians (POC) in the context of UN peacekeeping operations missions (PKO). The current PKO mandates are evaluated under this new emphasis on POC as the most important task of the mission mandate...
Almost ten years after the creation of the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), its Transitional Phase started, having a gradual transference of the responsibilities, until then carried out by MINUSTAH, to the Hatitian Government. As a consequence, kinetic operations aimed at maintaining a secure and stable environment, carried out by the military component, decreased slowly.
This article presents the view of the Brazilian Peace Operations Joint Training Center (CCOPAB) about the 10 years of the Brazilian participation in the UN peace operation in Haiti (MINUSTAH). It addresses the evolution of the UN doctrine and the consequences in the use of new concepts by the Brazilian troop. It shows how CCOPAB, firstly known as Peace Operations Training Center (CIOpPaz), was created and how it was inserted in the context of preparing contingents which would be deployed in MINUSTAH...
