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Birikorang

lines on the record: 19
first: 2022-11-14
most recent: 2022-11-14
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: un-security-council

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“Desperate young people are looking for avenues to succeed and for ways to live, and often their desperation leads them to crime, which brings them to the forefront of the challenges that peacekeepers face. Many of these young people threaten peacekeeping missions, either through extremist activities or through fundamentalism. I would urge that we strive to ensure, pursuant to the Sustainable Development Goals, that fragile countries are able to adapt to the dire effects of climate change.”
2022-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9189 (2022) · source
“It is therefore important that we bring these hybrid security actors on board and integrate them into policing of the local communities. That is where we will attain the greatest success. Successful peacekeeping missions are the ones that have adaptable mandates, operational flexibility in their actions, and consistent, innovative training methods. They also need to have the right tools to operate in their complex environments. If I may, I would like to respond to the United States representative’s comment on climate change and how it affects peacekeeping environments. Climate insecurity in Africa is a major threat. Even in countries that may not be experiencing conflict, they are nevertheless affected because their neighbours and countries of the region may be suffering from climate change.”
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“Often as peacekeepers, it is important that we trust in the local actors to resolve their own challenges. We often go into those environments seeking to spoon-feed them, thinking that they may not necessarily know what they are about. But sometimes we need to trust them and trust in their judgments. The other thing that I also want to bring to bear is that in a lot of the environments in which peacekeepers operate, there are hybrid security mechanisms that are already in existence. These hybrid security mechanisms comprise local chiefs, traditional authorities, community-based groups and civil society groups. They are all part of a hybrid security structure that ensures that the places in which we operate continue to exist and that they function with a minimum sense of order.”
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“We need to make sure that we give them the power to operate and interact with local communities and other vulnerable groups without worrying about the possible repercussions. Again, adaptability is about training and preparation, especially for the complex challenges within which peacekeepers operate, and especially the police, who often are at the forefront and interact with the locals. We also need to make sure that they have the right tools and equipment for the terrain in which they operate. And we need to ask ourselves if we are giving them the right tools to operate in those complex environments. That is what I want to say with respect to being flexible and responsive to operational environments. The other point that I want to raise is about local ownership when we want to be adaptable.”
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“When interacting with peacekeepers, some of the challenges that they tell us about is that some of the rules of engagement, some of the rules that are expected to make peacekeepers accountable, some of the mandates that they are expected to abide by can be really disabling rather than enabling them to perform their tasks. So it is important that while we want norms for peacekeeping and resolutions and we want peacekeepers to be able to play their roles well, we also do not want to tie their hands when they are expected to adapt to certain operational environments. We all know the complex environments that peacekeepers work in. A lot of the time, they are expected to adapt to certain situations that may not have been envisaged in the rules that they were trained on.”
2022-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9189 (2022) · source
“Ms. Birikorang: I thank the members of the Security Council for their interventions. There was one question directed to me by the representative of Ireland, regarding adaptive peacekeeping, to which I will respond. With respect to that, I have two key responses. First, adaptive peacekeeping should be flexible and responsive to the environment within which peacekeepers operate, and it should be country-specific. However, there are a few challenges when it comes to adaptive peacekeeping, which I am aware of as a trainer of peacekeepers in Ghana, where peacekeepers from several other countries go for peacekeeping training.”
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“To improve that contribution, there is a need for innovation, adaptability, operational readiness, strategic and operational integration and accountability for peacekeepers in missions in which fragile States are often the beneficiaries. Yet it has been established that, beyond fragile host countries, police-contributing countries, through innovative strategies, have maximized their participation in United Nations peacekeeping in order to benefit their own societies and strengthen the legitimacy and effectiveness of domestic security relations.”
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“While the figures may still be low and more needs to be done to increase the number of women in United Nations police, the positive roles played by women police in peacekeeping missions and their influence on host communities is commendable. Women police officers are instrumental in the aftermath of conflict-related sexual violence; during disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes; in the recruitment and training of women in the security services; and in critical cordon-and-search functions. At the domestic level, police responses to gender-based violence have improved significantly. In conclusion, UNPOL’s contributions to the Action for Peacekeeping priorities are critical.”
2022-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9189 (2022) · source
“With regard to ensuring the positive multiplier effect of women’s full and equal participation in peace and political processes, since the promulgation of resolution 1325 (2000) and other related resolutions on women and peace and security, the United Nations has encouraged Member States to increase the nomination of women to peacekeeping missions. To reinforce that agenda, troop- and police-contributing countries are often given percentage quotas. That agenda has benefits for both the host community and the troop- or police-contributing country. To meet United Nations targets, police-contributing countries have enhanced the recruitment of women into their police units, resulting in a larger pool of women police officers for international peacekeeping and for domestic purposes.”
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“In December 2018, for example, 165 officers of the formed police unit who had been on deployment to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan were honoured. They had been deployed to Bentiu, South Sudan, for one year and were honoured for the critical role they played in giving special protection to vulnerable groups, especially women and children, affected by the instability in the country. The experiences of the standing arrangement of the police and their regular use in Ghanaian law enforcement has ensured that they are operationally ready for deployment, as they are often in so-called mission mode.”
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“Within Ghana, it has been deployed to guard critical national security installations, as a first responder to local crises across the country and in a preventive deployment capacity during public assemblies. That stand-alone model of the FPU at the local level is an interesting phenomenon that, I would argue, supports the Action for Peacekeeping Plus priorities. As a formalized unit within the Ghana Police Service, it has regular training on firearm safety, human rights, crowd control and the protection of civilians and other vulnerable groups. Their constant training has improved their professionalism, both internally in Ghana and at the United Nations level, where they are regularly honoured.”
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“In addition, maintaining operational effectiveness requires strong inter-unit cohesion and collaboration with other actors in both the peacekeeping theatre and the host community. That has also led to strong domestic security relations at the troop-contributing country level, as personnel interact with several actors from diverse backgrounds in the peacekeeping mission. Ghana typifies that phenomenon. It has engaged in several peacekeeping missions over several decades, and its police officers have been deployed to several missions. Through those experiences, Ghana established a formed police unit, the first deployment of which was to South Sudan in 2015. Originally established to deploy to international peacekeeping missions, the FPU has increasingly been used for internal operations.”
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“In studies conducted using Ghana’s police service as a case study, former peacekeepers have testified that robust peacekeeping standards have positive effects on domestic performance and their discharge of their duties. With regard to strengthening the legitimacy of domestic security relations through peacekeeping, it has been established that in peacekeeping missions, enhancing strategic and operational integration is essential to achieving unity of purpose for greater impact. UNPOL’s contribution to that objective is critical as the entity that has regular and direct interaction with host communities, whether through individual police officers or as formed police units (FPUs).”
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“In striving to achieve the highest standards of the peacekeeping mission, police peacekeepers sometimes engage in tasks that they might not ordinarily perform in their own countries, such as establishing and maintaining strong partnerships with local civil-society and women’s networks, and regularly interacting with fragile people and local communities to achieve unity of purpose and greater impact. The performance of those tasks and the high standards that peacekeepers are expected to maintain ensure that they become accountable. The domino effect of that practical learning experience is that norm diffusion occurs and that the international institutional norms and standards that are met during peacekeeping operations are then transposed formally and organically to the police services of the contributing countries.”
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“On the issue of the democratizing effect of peacekeeping on the security sector, there are several police-contributing countries that are relatively young democracies with complex histories. Some of them are on positive paths to democratization. Others are grappling with their own internal security challenges. In their deployment to peacekeeping missions, those countries are therefore on a mission to provide support to other countries in distress, improve their own capacities and support host countries in their quest for peace and security. That results in a mutually beneficial relationship between UNPOL both in the peacekeeping theatre and when its personnel return home.”
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“The first is strategic and operational integration — that is, enhancing strategic and operational integration to achieve unity of purpose for greater impact. The second relates to capabilities and mindset. Peacekeeping missions must have the right capabilities and mindset for implementing their mandates. The third is innovation, and to that I would add adaptive peacekeeping that is flexible, responsive and sensitive to the operational environment. The fourth is the cross-cutting theme of women and peace and security in ensuring a positive multiplying effect on women’s full, equal and meaningful participation in peace and political processes. The fifth that I want to highlight is the accountability of peacekeepers, as well as strategic and operational integration.”
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“The first is that peacekeeping has a democratizing effect on the security sector in host communities and troop-contributing countries themselves and must take into account the need for a political process that is inclusive and sensitive to local dynamics. Secondly, peacekeeping strengthens the legitimacy and effectiveness of domestic security relations among the various entities of the security sector in the country. Thirdly, there are mutually reinforcing benefits that police in peacekeeping bring to the women and peace and security agenda in the peacekeeping theatre and at the domestic level in Member States. Those three points highlight a number of the Action for Peacekeeping Plus priorities.”
2022-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9189 (2022) · source
“To attain those lofty goals, the pre- to post- deployment stages of the United Nations peacekeeping cycle are an important component of the Action for Peacekeeping Plus principles. Many peacekeepers from police-contributing countries (PCCs) have completed several tours of peacekeeping missions in usually difficult and ever more complex and fluid terrains. As a result, their preparations before their duty tours, post-operations debriefing, top-up training and skills enhancements have become even more essential to the overall success of a peacekeeping mission. As previous speakers have emphasized, United Nations police (UNPOL) are critical components in the implementation of the Action for Peacekeeping Plus priorities. I want to highlight three key, interlinked points in that regard.”
2022-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9189 (2022) · source
“Ms. Birikorang: It is my pleasure and honour to join today’s meeting and to share my thoughts with the Security Council. Decisions, norms, ideas and policies at the multilateral level often filter down to the national level and consequently influence decision-making. Beyond the policy level, direct exposure to institutional norms predisposes actors to behave in ways that demonstrate a certain level of learning and eventual application. Peacekeeping missions are expected to be the embodiment of the application of international norms of human rights, among other things. Peacekeepers are therefore trained and oriented to uphold such principles while in the theatre of ever more complex operations.”
2022-11-14 · UN Security Council · Security Council, S/PV.9189 (2022) · source