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Date: April 30, 2024 Tue
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1 results foundAuthor: Berman, Eric G. Title: Beyond Blue Helmets: Promoting Weapons and Ammunition Management in Non-UN Peace Operations Summary: The United Nations (UN), with 70 years of peacekeeping experience, garners considerable attention in terms of its successes and shortcomings, as well as the increasing number of challenges it faces. This report looks at the experiences of organizations other than the UN that undertake peace operations, which arguably receive less attention. It focuses on the challenges these organizations face in securing their contingent-owned equipment (COE) and the lethal materiel they recover. The study notes that the challenges facing non-UN actors are as great-or greater-than those facing the world body. The scale and scope of diversion of arms and ammunition in peace operations that these organizations undertake is very difficult to assess because of imperfect information. Seizures occur as a result of attacks on fixed sites, patrols, and convoy movements (such as deployments, resupply operations, and transfers of recovered materiel). Blockades and the threat of attacks have also led to the forced abandonment of COE. Peacekeepers' residences are known to have been burgled and arms seized. Materiel has also been stolen during shipment and as a consequence of challenging situations and difficult decisions. Corruption and ill-discipline are additional causes of diversion- of both COE and recovered materiel. These are among the most sensitive and challenging circumstances to document. Nevertheless, it is clear that these various causes have led to the loss of significant quantities of lethal materiel. The Survey has documented at least seven organizations other than the UN that have lost arms and ammunition in missions they have undertaken. Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, the Taliban, and various al-Qaeda affiliates are among the armed groups that have seized or otherwise acquired these weapons, which include armoured vehicles. Better information would almost certainly result in a longer listing of both the perpetrators of attacks and the organizations and missions that have been sources of arms and ammunition. Some of the organizations listed in this report have measures in place to reduce the loss of materiel; many do not. Many control frameworks, however-even those that are legally binding-are ineffectual. Encouragingly, several organizations have recently undertaken activities or stated their intention to address these shortcomings. Making good on existing commitments and aspirations will take significant resources and years of concerted effort, but meaningful incremental progress can be made in the short term. Details: Geneva, SWIT: Small Arms Survey, 2019. 83p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed April 26, 2019 at: http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/U-Reports/SAS-MPOME-Report-WAM-Non-UN-Peace-Ops.pdf Year: 2019 Country: International URL: http://www.smallarmssurvey.org/fileadmin/docs/U-Reports/SAS-MPOME-Report-WAM-Non-UN-Peace-Ops.pdf Shelf Number: 155557 Keywords: Arms and AmmunitionsPeace Operations Terrorists Weapons and Firearms |