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Some 18 months after 700,000 people fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state, camps in neighboring Bangladesh are now hosting more than one million refugees. Though Myanmar and Bangladesh agreed in November 2017 to a procedural framework for repatriation of these refugees—most of them Rohingyas from Rakhine state—the increased instability there has not allowed for safe, dignified, and voluntary returns.
The resulting humanitarian crisis and what to do about it was the subject of an IPI Speaker Series talk on March 1st by Bangladeshi Foreign Secretary Md. Shahidul Haque. He opened his remarks by saying that the matter had been badly distorted.
“There has been an attempt to make the whole issue from a humanitarian crisis to a military conflict between Myanmar and Bangladesh,” Mr. Haque said. In fact, he said, “this is between Myanmar and its own nationals, the Rohingyas… it is not an interstate fight, it is an ethnic issue.”
In a briefing to the United Nations Security Council the day before, UN Special Envoy for Myanmar Christine Schraner Burgener had reported that the refugees in the Cox’s Bazar area of Bangladesh find themselves in “extremely challenging temporary conditions.” And she said they would continue in danger indefinitely in the absence of moves to end violence, improve humanitarian access, probe the causes of the crisis, and promote equitable development.
Mr. Haque said that the displaced people were in deeply deforested areas, with no infrastructure and no market system even to buy necessities. “But one of the most challenging situations that we are confronted with was not with shelter, not with food, but health,” he said. “Health is an area which often creates a crisis within a crisis.”
The World Health Organization aided in getting necessary vaccines after an outbreak of diphtheria, and individual governments and local NGOs were providing health services, he said. His own government tried to help by sending in troops with health supplies, but women ran away, thinking they were Myanmar soldiers, he said. “It took two or three days to make them understand this is not the Myanmar military, they are not going to kill you, but they are going to help you.” Bangladesh subsequently tried to make sure that those providing aid were women, he said.
Mr. Haque listed three necessary steps for improvement – addressing the “root causes” of the conflict, holding perpetrators of atrocity crimes accountable, and ensuring the safety and security of minority communities, especially the Rohingyas. He added that “international pressure on Myanmar is critical.”
He said that all civilians “irrespective of religion and ethnicity must be protected in Myanmar,” and he proposed accordingly that civilian zones with no military presence be established within the country under UN supervision. He also encouraged international organizations and the UN to collect the evidence that would be needed to investigate and prosecute atrocities. “Unless you bring in the whole issue of accountability and justice,” he said, “you cannot permanently resolve this problem, you cannot ensure that next time there won’t be another exodus.”
IPI Vice President Adam Lupel, the moderator of the discussion, concluded the session, saying, “My takeaway is this really is a multi-dimensional, multi-layered, multigenerational crisis… This really is a long-term problem with very urgent short term demands, but a need for a long-term perspective on both the history and the resolution. In some ways, it’s a real good case for what we’re calling in this neighborhood the ‘triple nexus’, a crisis that is both the peace and security, development, and human rights all in one which makes it very complicated but also in some sense maps out what kind of process needs to be engaged for a resolution.”
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In January 2019, about two weeks before India’s Republic Day, Israel’s National Security Advisor, Meir Ben-Shabbat, flew to New Delhi and met Prime Minister (PM) Narendra Modi. While such consultations have been routine for the past two decades, the Israeli official chose the direct Air India flight from Tel Aviv – a new flight connection that could only be established due to an unprecedented permit for Israel-bound flights to fly over Saudi airspace. The small incident highlights the distance that India and Israel have traveled since the normalization of diplomatic relations in 1992. Today, the two states share an ever-growing cooperation, especially in the areas of security and economic development. This rapprochement with Israel is embedded in India’s broader Middle East strategy, in which especially the Gulf Arab states are important partners. Thus, India-Israel relations have also been catalyzed by the improvement in ties between Israel and the Gulf States as well as the diminishing role played by the Palestinian issue. This, in turn, has led India, especially under Modi, not only to strengthen its ties with Israel, but also to de-hyphenate those ties from the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, leading to a marginalization of the Palestinian question in Indian foreign policy.
Sie sind heterogen, stellen widersprüchliche Forderungen, geben keine Ruhe: die Gelbwesten in Frankreich. Seit November 2018 demonstrieren sie für mehr Kaufkraft und mehr Demokratie. Nach finanziellen Zugeständnissen spielt Präsident Emmanuel Macron auf Zeit. Er hat eine »große nationale Debatte« initiiert, in deren Rahmen alle Bürgerinnen und Bürger aufgerufen sind, Stellung zu politischen Zukunftsfragen zu beziehen. Diese Debatte dürfte ihm dazu verhelfen, die Wahl zum Europäischen Parlament (EP) im Mai zu gewinnen und die Spaltung der Gelbwesten voranzutreiben. Um weitere Proteste abzuwenden, die das Land paralysieren, die Regierung delegitimieren und seine Präsidentschaft scheitern lassen können, muss Macron seine Reformagenda besser vermitteln. Das bloße Spiel auf Zeit wird Frankreich für den Präsidenten ebenso wenig reformier- und regierbar machen wie für seine Vorgänger.
Die Expansion der Libysch-Arabischen Streitkräfte Khalifa Haftars im Süden Libyens verändert die Kräfteverhältnisse im Land und untergräbt die Bemühungen der Vereinten Nationen (VN), den gewaltsamen Konflikt politisch zu lösen. Indem Haftar an Macht gewinnt, schwindet seine Bereitschaft für Zugeständnisse. Zentrale Akteure in Westlibyen sehen ihn nun als existentielle Bedrohung an. Bisher hat sich die Einheitsregierung in Tripolis Haftar gegenüber ambivalent verhalten, obwohl er sie offen ablehnt. Verbündete wie auch Gegner Haftars werden sie jetzt dazu drängen, Position zu beziehen. Die neue Konstellation birgt erhöhtes Eskalationspotenzial. Ohne eine stabile Kräftebalance wird es keine Verhandlungslösung geben können.
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"Münchner Bierrevolution" gegen die Erhöhung des Bierpreises.
03.03.1934
85. Geburtstag Maria Wittmann
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Der Bayerische Bauernbund veranstaltet den ersten Politischen Aschermittwoch.
08.03.1949
70. Geburtstag Marianne Deml
09.03.1949
70. Geburtstag Jürgen W. Heike
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10. Todestag Gebhard Glück
15./16.03.1939 vor 80 Jahren
Zerschlagung der Rest-Tschechei durch den Einmarsch deutscher Truppen.
18.03.1894
125. Geburtstag Max Solleder
24.03.1934
85. Geburtstag Benno Zierer
25.03.1889
130. Geburtstag Adam Sühler
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80. Geburtstag Carl-Dieter Spranger
29.03.1949
70. Geburtstag Jakob Schwimmer
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In recent years, the UN and its member states have promoted comprehensive approaches and integrated structures and processes to improve coherence and consistency between political peacekeeping, humanitarian, human rights, and development efforts undertaken by the UN and its partners. For POC specifically, coordination between the military, police, and civilian components of peace operations; between peace operations and UN agencies, funds, and programs; and between the UN system and other protection actors has been pursued to maximize impact in the field. Joint planning, analysis, and action at these three levels are key to leveraging different types of expertise, tools, and responses in a holistic way in order to better prevent and respond to threats to civilians.
However, while the UN’s normative and policy frameworks provide the basis for coordination and organizational arrangements have been set up to facilitate integrated efforts at these three levels, recent developments in the peace and security sphere have reinvigorated the debate over the costs and benefits of integration. Coordination for POC has proven to be increasingly difficult in non-permissive environments where, for example, peacekeepers may be perceived as party to the armed conflict or as having too close or tense a relationship with the host state or non-state actors. Integration in such contexts has led to debates around the preservation of humanitarian space, the independence of human rights advocacy, and the security of actors too closely linked to peacekeeping efforts.
This issue brief analyzes the costs, benefits, and challenges of coordinated and integrated approaches to POC in peacekeeping contexts. It considers the added value of mission-wide and system-wide coordination for POC and concerns over comprehensive coordination between peacekeeping and humanitarian actors, which have different rationales and methodologies for protection. In a context of UN reform emphasizing prevention and political strategies, it questions the political and institutional push for more comprehensive POC strategies and reflects on the associated risks. It also offers considerations for how to coordinate and integrate multi-actor efforts in order to better protect civilians.
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