Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/carlos-alberto-dos-santos-cruz/ The low down on African affairs Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.5 https://i0.wp.com/jjcornish.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-Fountain_Pen_favicon-812.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz Archives - Jean-Jacques Cornish https://jjcornish.com/tag/carlos-alberto-dos-santos-cruz/ 32 32 UN report says peacekeepers must use force to protect themselves https://jjcornish.com/2018/01/un-report-says-peacekeepers-must-use-force-protect/ Tue, 23 Jan 2018 22:00:00 +0000 https://jjcornish.com/2018/01/un-report-says-peacekeepers-must-use-force-protect/ A special report on UN peacekeeping says blue-helmeted  forces shouldn’t  shy away from using force to reverse a worrying trend of escalating fatalities. The recommended new approach been submitted to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by a team of experts headed up by Brazilian lieutenant general Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, a former UN commander in […]

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The recommended new approach been submitted to UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres by a team of experts headed up by Brazilian lieutenant general Carlos Alberto dos Santos Cruz, a former UN commander in Haiti and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

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The specialist report recommends that the United Nations and troop- and police-contributing countries need to adapt to a new reality.

The blue helmet and the United Nations flag no longer offer natural protection, it says.

Hostile forces don’t understand a language other than force. To deter and repel attacks and to defeat attackers, the United Nations needs to be strong and not fear to use force when necessary.

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