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On April 21, 2012 the United Nations established a 6-point plan to end the escalating violence in Syria. The mission, which consisted of a small team of unarmed observers, was to implement the UN’s 6-point plan to end conflict in the region. By the May 30th a rapid deployment team was in place in Damascus and by June 30th the rest of the team had arrived all stationed in Damascus. The teams focus on population centers and visited regions where conflict was on going. They also attempted to interact with local population and build relationships and contacts.
The 6-point plans consisted of provisions for the end of armed conflict, which required the Syrian government to stop troop movement, end the use of heavy weapons and begin a pull back from population centers. It also required the Syrian government to allow humanitarian access, release detainees, allow free movement to journalist and allow people to demonstrate peacefully.
The UN’s mission was difficult from the beginning for several reasons. First they had limited access to incident locations. Civilians claimed that they had been retaliated against for working with the UN. As this was going on the risk to the observers increased and the number of attack within there area rose. On June 12th an incident led to UN vehicles being blocked and damaged. The group was then fired on from unknown subjects. The increasing violence made the UN mandate unattainable
With the deteriorating situation the Secretary General announced on the 15th of June that the mission would be suspended and aide would be given on a case-by-case basis. On August 19th 2012 the UNSMIS mandate came to an end with out the entire 6-point plan being implemented.
The UN was successful in showing the worlds concern for the violence in Syria but without the ability to use force and no backing of any major military power there were unsuccessful in implementing their plan. From the beginning the United Nations believed that armed conflict was not an option and no country was willing to commit their troops. This makes me question weather or not any attempt to stop and armed conflict without the back of force is a wise decision. This zero-sum civil war will be difficult to truly end there are to many players in the region and unless the problem is simplified and stakes are raised it will continue for years.
Michael
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For this week forum, I will be writing on the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti (UNSMIH). This mission started in 1996 and it ended in 1997, however, the United Nation is still present in Haiti today. The end goal of the support mission was to support and stabilize the government and essentially build a safer environment for the Haitian citizens. This was the actually the first time the Haitian government had such a force to assist with these concerns. The United Nations also came to Haiti in order to support the Haitian National Police (HNP), because the HNP alone was not enough to control and stabilize the environment. When the UNSMIH military arrived in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, they provided 24/7 patrols. They also provided mission helicopters to control certain areas, especially during the presidential elections times. Even now the presidential election is very dangerous due to groups who cannot admit that they lost and they tend to turn violent against other groups. The UNSMIH provided protection at the Haitian National palace, which is where the president lived. The UNSMIH separated in fifteen detachments, ten went to different provinces in Haiti and the other five went straight to Port-au-Prince. They began to give assistance to the HNP on their day-to-day job. The UNSMIH also provided extra training for the HNP and the local guards at the National Palace. At the end of the mandate, the HNP, the local guards and even the government was noticeably more proficient and controlled. Everything became fine and was controlled to an extended just until 2010 when the earthquake struck Haiti. After the Earthquake struck Haiti, everything was destroyed besides the American Embassy here in Port-au-Prince. Different groups between the United Nations, Missionary groups and even our own troops showed up and is still here to this day helping to reconstruct what the earthquake destroyed. The UN provided extreme amount of assistance after the earthquake in 2010. After the earthquake they pretty much reenacted the same security assistance as back in 1996 except the presidential part. To me there was nothing unique or nothing that impacted international law besides provide enormous amount of assistance to Haiti.
Huy
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Great post this week. Somalia is a very unstable region with many issues that have been taken on by UN efforts. That goes for a lot of African countries in this region. I really think the extensive time these countries have gone with conflict has given the people an image of the government that is hard to reverse. Put yourself in their shoes. If you were in a country that the government couldn't protect you or your family from rebel groups coming into your town and causing mass casualties how would you respond? It really is tough to say because we as Americans have not been faced with an issue of this magnitude before. Different rebel groups promise safety to people that join the cause. Would you be comfortable leaving that sense of protection to go back to a government that has a bad track record of failing in the security department? It really is difficult to give a definite answer on that unless we have been put in that situation in my opinion.
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Thank you for sharing you forum. I enjoyed reading your forum; it flowed really well, and was developed well. Somalia is a very unstable and unpredictable place. I found it difficult to make peace with all of the conflict going on with in that region. That background is very interesting to me, to see because all I really get from it is that this one person is causing all of these problems. Why, doesn’t their government have a system set in place to help balance this problem out? With this conflict occurring and causing all of this displacement of people with in the country, it’s hard to believe people just stood by and watched this happen. Wow, I did not know there were so many hands in the pot that help to solve to problem that Somali was facing. It is crazy that it took that many countries to help fix this problem.
