Fortune mlilo presentation early warning signalsFortune Mlilo
This is a presentation about understanding the nature of conflicts and events that precede violent eruptions. Violent conflict manifestations are a result of political, economic and social issues that interplay. It is therefore essential to keep a close watch on these dynamics and how they could end up in violent expressions.
Fortune mlilo presentation early warning signalsFortune Mlilo
This is a presentation about understanding the nature of conflicts and events that precede violent eruptions. Violent conflict manifestations are a result of political, economic and social issues that interplay. It is therefore essential to keep a close watch on these dynamics and how they could end up in violent expressions.
US National Action Plan on Women Peace and SecurityDr Lendy Spires
The goal of this National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security is as simple as it is profound: to empower half the world’s population as equal partners in preventing conflict and building peace in countries threatened and affected by war, violence, and insecurity. Achieving this goal is critical to our national and global security. Deadly conflicts can be more effectively avoided, and peace can be best forged and sustained, when women become equal partners in all aspects of peace-building and conflict prevention, when their lives are protected, their experiences considered, and their voices heard.
As directed by the Executive Order signed by President Obama entitled Instituting a National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, this Plan describes the course the United States Government will take to accelerate, institutionalize, and better coordinate our efforts to advance women’s inclusion in peace negotiations, peacebuilding activities, and conflict prevention; to protect women from sexual and gender-based violence; and to ensure equal access to relief and recovery assistance, in areas of conflict and insecurity. It is guided by the following five principles: First, the engagement and protection of women as agents of peace and stability will be central to the United States’ efforts to promote security, prevent, respond to, and resolve conflict, and rebuild societies. Second, by building on the goals for gender integration described in the United States National Security Strategy and the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, the United States’ efforts on Women, Peace, and Security will complement and enhance existing initiatives to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, ensure respect for human rights, and address the needs of vulnerable popula-tions in crisis and conflict environments.
Third, in executing this policy, the United States will be guided by the principle of inclusion, seeking out the views and participation of a wide variety of stakeholders—women and girls, men and boys, and members of marginalized groups, including youth, ethnic, racial or religious minorities, persons with disabilities, displaced persons and indigenous peoples, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, and people from all socioeconomic strata. Fourth, in order to maximize the impact of this Plan, the United States will ensure that activities in sup-port of Women, Peace and Security are coordinated among all relevant departments and agencies
Objectives of the presentation
•To briefly discuss peacekeeping as a tool of the international community in conflict situations
•Its evolution in concept, practice and context - from traditional peacekeeping to peace support operations
•To discuss how inadequacies in peacekeeping triggered the development of the concept of peacebuilding
•Highlight some of notable dilemmas that international peacebuilding effort encounter in the face of continued humanitarian crisis & political uncertainty in conflict ravaged societies
PRESENTED AT THE SACCPS CONFERENCE
HELD IN LUSAKA, ZAMBIA FROM 21 – 23 SEPTEMBER 2012.
Francis Kabosha, Copperbelt University, Zambia
Abstract:
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by all member states of the United Nations at the 2005 World Summit to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity The principle of the Responsibility to Protect is based upon the underlying premise that sovereignty entails a responsibility to protect all populations from mass atrocity crimes and human rights violations. The principle is based on a respect for the norms and principles of international law, especially the underlying principles of law relating to sovereignty, peace and security, human rights, and armed conflict. The Responsibility to Protect provides a framework for employing measures that already exist (i.e., mediation, early warning mechanisms, economic sanctions, and chapter VII powers) to prevent atrocity crimes and to protect civilians from their occurrence. The authority to employ the use of force under the framework of the Responsibility to Protect rests solely with United Nations Security Council and is considered a measure of last resort. The United Nations Secretary-General has published annual reports on the Responsibility to Protect since 2009 that expand on the measures available to governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society, as well as the private sector, to prevent atrocity crimes. The Responsibility to Protect has been the subject of considerable debate, particularly regarding the implementation of the principle by various actors in the context of country-specific situations, such as Libya, Syria, Sudan and Kenya, for example. It has also been argued that commensurate with the responsibility to protect, international law should also recognize a right for populations to offer militarily organized resistance to protect themselves against genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on a massive scale.
http://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/about-responsibility-to-protect.html
RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect
Responsibility to protect
http://www.globalr2p.org/about_r2p
About R2P
http://www.globalr2p.org/media/files/r2p-backgrounder.pdf
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2013/07/24/what-is-the-responsibility-to-protect/
WHAT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/11/responsibility-to-protect-a-short-history/
Research Interests: Responsibility to Protect and The principle of the Responsibility to Protect
The prime objective of a state is to improve the quality of life of its citizens. For this, the state formulates a comprehensive set of interdependent policies.
Foreign policy is one such policy formulated to achieve the above objectives by utilizing the foreign relations of a country
Multiple constants & variables determine the foreign policy of a country; This presentation attempts to explain those determinants
Its word version is available on my website mentioned above. You will find many other articles and presentations there
The International Crisis Management Exercise is a scenario, role-play exercise that takes place on a Saturday during the spring semester. In this daylong simulation, students act as members of the National Security Council and work together to come up with recommendations for an acting President regarding a mock international crisis.
From the ten high schools participating in the Council’s educational program Great Decisions, a group of students are selected from each school to assume the roles of members of the National Security Council and represent different agencies or interests in the U.S. Government. Participation in this impactful and highly educational event is selective. Teachers choose their respective 4-6 participants based on their overall attendance and participation in the Great Decisions meetings during the past academic year.
The exercise simulates the U.S. Government’s handling of a mock international crisis. All events of the day will be fictional, but plausible. With Ambassador Nancy Soderberg and Admiral Jonathan Howe, USN (Ret.) acting as Presidents, students must work together to come up with advice and recommendations regarding various aspects of the international crisis.
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This is the chapter presentation slides which is my group's assignment in Asia Pacific class at IFL, RUPP, Cambodia.
The presentation covers:
Introduction
Historical legacies in the Asia-Pacific
Hubs, Spokes, and cycles
Origins of the ARF
Implementing the ARF agenda
The ARF’s declining relevance?
Strategic relations in the Asia-Pacific
Conclusion remarks
US National Action Plan on Women Peace and SecurityDr Lendy Spires
The goal of this National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security is as simple as it is profound: to empower half the world’s population as equal partners in preventing conflict and building peace in countries threatened and affected by war, violence, and insecurity. Achieving this goal is critical to our national and global security. Deadly conflicts can be more effectively avoided, and peace can be best forged and sustained, when women become equal partners in all aspects of peace-building and conflict prevention, when their lives are protected, their experiences considered, and their voices heard.
As directed by the Executive Order signed by President Obama entitled Instituting a National Action Plan on Women, Peace, and Security, this Plan describes the course the United States Government will take to accelerate, institutionalize, and better coordinate our efforts to advance women’s inclusion in peace negotiations, peacebuilding activities, and conflict prevention; to protect women from sexual and gender-based violence; and to ensure equal access to relief and recovery assistance, in areas of conflict and insecurity. It is guided by the following five principles: First, the engagement and protection of women as agents of peace and stability will be central to the United States’ efforts to promote security, prevent, respond to, and resolve conflict, and rebuild societies. Second, by building on the goals for gender integration described in the United States National Security Strategy and the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review, the United States’ efforts on Women, Peace, and Security will complement and enhance existing initiatives to advance gender equality and women’s empowerment, ensure respect for human rights, and address the needs of vulnerable popula-tions in crisis and conflict environments.
Third, in executing this policy, the United States will be guided by the principle of inclusion, seeking out the views and participation of a wide variety of stakeholders—women and girls, men and boys, and members of marginalized groups, including youth, ethnic, racial or religious minorities, persons with disabilities, displaced persons and indigenous peoples, lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) individuals, and people from all socioeconomic strata. Fourth, in order to maximize the impact of this Plan, the United States will ensure that activities in sup-port of Women, Peace and Security are coordinated among all relevant departments and agencies
Objectives of the presentation
•To briefly discuss peacekeeping as a tool of the international community in conflict situations
•Its evolution in concept, practice and context - from traditional peacekeeping to peace support operations
•To discuss how inadequacies in peacekeeping triggered the development of the concept of peacebuilding
•Highlight some of notable dilemmas that international peacebuilding effort encounter in the face of continued humanitarian crisis & political uncertainty in conflict ravaged societies
PRESENTED AT THE SACCPS CONFERENCE
HELD IN LUSAKA, ZAMBIA FROM 21 – 23 SEPTEMBER 2012.
Francis Kabosha, Copperbelt University, Zambia
Abstract:
The Responsibility to Protect (R2P or RtoP) is a global political commitment which was endorsed by all member states of the United Nations at the 2005 World Summit to prevent genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity The principle of the Responsibility to Protect is based upon the underlying premise that sovereignty entails a responsibility to protect all populations from mass atrocity crimes and human rights violations. The principle is based on a respect for the norms and principles of international law, especially the underlying principles of law relating to sovereignty, peace and security, human rights, and armed conflict. The Responsibility to Protect provides a framework for employing measures that already exist (i.e., mediation, early warning mechanisms, economic sanctions, and chapter VII powers) to prevent atrocity crimes and to protect civilians from their occurrence. The authority to employ the use of force under the framework of the Responsibility to Protect rests solely with United Nations Security Council and is considered a measure of last resort. The United Nations Secretary-General has published annual reports on the Responsibility to Protect since 2009 that expand on the measures available to governments, intergovernmental organizations, and civil society, as well as the private sector, to prevent atrocity crimes. The Responsibility to Protect has been the subject of considerable debate, particularly regarding the implementation of the principle by various actors in the context of country-specific situations, such as Libya, Syria, Sudan and Kenya, for example. It has also been argued that commensurate with the responsibility to protect, international law should also recognize a right for populations to offer militarily organized resistance to protect themselves against genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes on a massive scale.
http://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/about-responsibility-to-protect.html
RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Responsibility_to_protect
Responsibility to protect
http://www.globalr2p.org/about_r2p
About R2P
http://www.globalr2p.org/media/files/r2p-backgrounder.pdf
https://www.brookings.edu/blog/brookings-now/2013/07/24/what-is-the-responsibility-to-protect/
WHAT IS THE RESPONSIBILITY TO PROTECT
http://foreignpolicy.com/2011/10/11/responsibility-to-protect-a-short-history/
Research Interests: Responsibility to Protect and The principle of the Responsibility to Protect
The prime objective of a state is to improve the quality of life of its citizens. For this, the state formulates a comprehensive set of interdependent policies.
Foreign policy is one such policy formulated to achieve the above objectives by utilizing the foreign relations of a country
Multiple constants & variables determine the foreign policy of a country; This presentation attempts to explain those determinants
Its word version is available on my website mentioned above. You will find many other articles and presentations there
The International Crisis Management Exercise is a scenario, role-play exercise that takes place on a Saturday during the spring semester. In this daylong simulation, students act as members of the National Security Council and work together to come up with recommendations for an acting President regarding a mock international crisis.
From the ten high schools participating in the Council’s educational program Great Decisions, a group of students are selected from each school to assume the roles of members of the National Security Council and represent different agencies or interests in the U.S. Government. Participation in this impactful and highly educational event is selective. Teachers choose their respective 4-6 participants based on their overall attendance and participation in the Great Decisions meetings during the past academic year.
The exercise simulates the U.S. Government’s handling of a mock international crisis. All events of the day will be fictional, but plausible. With Ambassador Nancy Soderberg and Admiral Jonathan Howe, USN (Ret.) acting as Presidents, students must work together to come up with advice and recommendations regarding various aspects of the international crisis.
Chapter presentation: ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF)Nheanny Hy
This is the chapter presentation slides which is my group's assignment in Asia Pacific class at IFL, RUPP, Cambodia.
The presentation covers:
Introduction
Historical legacies in the Asia-Pacific
Hubs, Spokes, and cycles
Origins of the ARF
Implementing the ARF agenda
The ARF’s declining relevance?
Strategic relations in the Asia-Pacific
Conclusion remarks
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1. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) The 13th Shangri-La Dialogue
31 May 2014 Prepared Translation
THE 13TH IISS ASIA SECURITY SUMMIT
THE SHANGRI-LA DIALOGUE
THIRD PLENARY SESSION
MANAGING STRATEGIC TENSIONS
SATURDAY 31 MAY 2014
GENERAL PHUNG QUANG THANH,
MINISTER OF NATIONAL DEFENSE, VIETNAM
PREPARED TRANSLATION
2. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) The 13th Shangri-La Dialogue
31 May 2014 Prepared Translation
Dr John Chipman,
Ladies and gentlemen,
On behalf of the high-level defense delegation of Viet Nam, I would like to sincerely thank
the Government, Ministry of Defense of Singapore and the organizers for giving me the
opportunity to attend and address this plenary session.
Ladies and gentlemen,
At the outset, we wish to express our high appreciation of Japan’s “positive pacifism”
articulated by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe last night.
At this forum in 2013, Prime Minister Nguyen tan Dung of Viet Nam conveyed a message to
the international community on “strategic trust”, which underlined that “Trust is the
beginning of all friendships and cooperation, the remedy that works to prevent calculations
that could risk conflicts. Trust must be treasured and nurtured constantly by concrete,
consistent actions in accordance with the common norms and with a sincere attitude”.
Looking back after one year, we note that the region and the world sill see tensions and
latent dangers of conflicts or wars as we witness with every passing day, every passing hour
through the media. Therefore, trust building is evermore imperative in face of the current
regional and world situation.
Management of strategic tension is an important issue relating to peace, stability and
development of countries, regions and the entire world. It is the common desire of the
international community and the interest of all countries. That is the topic that I wish to
share with you today.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Overall, the regional and world landscape today sees the major trend of peace, cooperation
and development, but complex, latent unforeseeable developments still remain. Tensions,
religious and ethnic conflicts, secessionism, local wars, territorial disputes, political riots,
intervention, attempts for regime change, terrorisms are going on in an acute manner.
Elements that threaten non-traditional security are on the rise, such as high-tech crimes in
the areas of finance – monetary, electronic- telecommunication, biotechnology, environment.
The Asia – Pacific region enjoys dynamic development, high growth and is a destination of
choice for global investors. However, there exist tensions in the Korean Peninsula, sovereign
3. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) The 13th Shangri-La Dialogue
31 May 2014 Prepared Translation
disputes in the East China Sea and East Sea, which are the factors that put peace and
stability in the region at stake.
The causes for these problems lie in the contradiction and conflict of interest that lead to the
suspsion on goodwill and trust in relations and cooperation, the friction of interest in
strategic competition and actions of mutual containment. In addition, there are also
contradictions and differences in culture, religion, ethnicity and ideology, and parties
concerned have yet to find effective solutions.
The common desire of countries in the world, including Viet Nam, is the sustained
maintenance of a peaceful, stable environment and joint efforts for development and
prevention of conflicts and wars.
I believe that to manage the danger of conflict, we must first and foremost have a common
understanding in upholding international responsibility, especially the role and
responsibility of the major powers. Countries must have the responsibility to preserve the
environment of peace, stability and cooperation for common development, must observe the
international law, the UN charter, respect countries’ independence, sovereignty and
territorial integrity, not use or threat of force to settle disputes, enhance various aspects of
cooperation on the basis of equality, mutual respect and benefits, big or small countries
alike.
With that common understanding in place, we will have the solid foundation to build trust.
Trust is not just reflected in words. Rather, it must be displayed by concrete, meaningful
actions to promote transparency, equal dialogue, openness, development of friendship and
cooperation among countries, respect for the rule of law and norms in international
relations. Major countries have the responsibility for and play an important role in
contributing to the development and enhancement of this strategic trust.
In reality, in each nation, even each family, there are contradictions and differences, let alone
neighbouring countries with border, territorial disputes that may lead to frictions. What
matters is high-level leaders of countries need to remain extremely calm, exercise restraint,
place national interest in the context of the interest of the region and the world and make the
choice of peaceful solutions via diplomatic negotiation in order to maintain friendly
relations among countries.
In settling any contradiction or dispute, parties concerned must exercise self-restraint,
remain calm, understand the true nature of the problem in order to make decision on the
4. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) The 13th Shangri-La Dialogue
31 May 2014 Prepared Translation
basis of objectivity and cautiousness. A minor mistake may turn tension into conflict. In
handling of tension in relations among countries, the army must restrain, control and tightly
manage all activities of each and every commander and solder, those in charge of directing
weapons, equipment, combat vehicles, ships and airplanes.
In management of strategic tension, communication has an extremely important role to play.
The broadcasting of news must be honest, objective, timely and constructive in the interest
of the nation. Communication should create an environment conducive to the peaceful
settlement of contradictions and conflicts. We must avoid using instigating language, let
alone inciting national hatred and making the situation become tenser or creating pressure
for the leaders in considering and making decision in handling the situation.
To control and minimize the danger of conflict, we must make good use of cooperation
mechanisms, both bilateral and multilateral. Issues related to two counties must be settled
bilaterally; those involving multi-countries or multi-parties must be settled multilaterally. In
the process of settling issues, contradictions and differences must be made public,
transparent to the international community, thus avoiding misunderstanding or casting
doubt to the public opinion.
At present, we have in place such regional mechanisms as the ARF, the Council for Security
Cooperation in the Asia Pacific (CSCAP), the EAS, ADMM, ADMM+ the ARF as well as this
Shangri La Dialogue, which provide important frameworks for trust-building, promotion of
preventive diplomacy and finding of measures for conflict management.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Relations between Viet Nam and the friendly neighbouring country of China have seen
overall strong growth. There remains an outstanding issue of disputes over sovereignty in
the East Sea and frictions from time to time such as the incident that on 1 May 2014, China
unilaterally placed its deep-water drilling rig Haiyan Shiyou 981 in the continental shelf and
exclusive economic zone of Viet Nam, causing anger to the Vietnamese people and concerns
to countries in the region and the international community.
It is our clear awareness that struggling to protect territorial sovereignty is sacred. Viet Nam
consistently pursues the policy of persevering with the settlement of disputes via peaceful
means on the basis of the international law, particularly the 1982 UNCLOS, the DOC, the
ASEAN six-point principles statement and moving towards the COC between ASEAN and
China, the agreement between the high-level leaders of Viet Nam and China. Our policy is
5. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) The 13th Shangri-La Dialogue
31 May 2014 Prepared Translation
to preserve peace, stability, maritime security and safety and freedom of overflight in the
East Sea, improve the living standard of the people and preserve the traditional friendship
between the people of Viet Nam and China via dialogues at various levels, between various
agencies with China in order to reduce tension.
Under that policy, Viet Nam has exercised a high-level of restraint, not used airplanes,
frigates, battleships. We only used vessels of fisheries surveillance forces, coastguards and
fishing boats in coordination with the law enforcement forces to protect national
sovereignty. We did not proactively rammed or fire water cannon into the Chinese ships.
We demand that China withdraw its drilling rig out of the Vietnamese continental shelf and
exclusive economic zone and negotiate with us to maintain peace, stability and friendly
relations between the two countries. This is in the interest of the two countries and that of
the region and the world.
I believe that the army of the two countries must exercise utmost restraint, strengthen
cooperation and tightly control all activities, avoid activity that may get out of control. The
two countries’ armies must play well the advisory role to leaders of the two Parties and
States to satisfactorily settle issues in a calm and patient fashion in order to avoid conflicts or
wars.
Viet Nam has been proactive and positive in engaging in defense cooperation with ASEAN
countries as well as participating in joint exercises on search and rescue, humanitarian
assistance and natural disaster relief, establishing hot lines among ASEAN countries. On 8
June 2014, Viet Nam and the Philippines will organize exchanges among the forces stationed
in the Islands of Song tu Dong (Northeast Cay) and Song tu Tay (Southwest Cay) of Truong
Sa (Spratly Islands) in order to strengthen friendship and build trust as well as reducing
tension in the region.
We hope that common efforts of the international community will help step by step settle
contradictions, differences and maintain stability and development in the region as well as
contributing to a peaceful global environment.
In conclusion, I wish to again convey to you the message of the Vietnamese government and
people that with the tradition of peace and friendship and peace-loving, Viet Nam stands
ready to be a friend and reliable partner of all countries in the international community on
the basis of respect for independence, sovereignty and for mutual benefits and work
together to build a world of peace, prosperity, cooperation and development.
6. International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) The 13th Shangri-La Dialogue
31 May 2014 Prepared Translation
Thank you