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View all search resultsAs the International Day of UN Peacekeepers 2020 on Friday marks the great contributions women have made to building peace in conflict areas around the world, UN peacekeepers are facing additional challenges on the ground, compounded by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Indonesia looks to focus on quality over quantity in its contributions to United Nations peacekeeping operations, as the UN continues to slash funds and close down missions, making the national year-end target of deploying 4,000 peacekeepers overseas unattainable.
We are reaching the closing of 2019, the deadline for Indonesia’s “Vision 4,000 Peacekeepers” that the government set in 2015 to contribute to the United Nations mission. Questions have been raised over whether the country has achieved sending 4,000 peacekeepers in a given time for UN deployments. The answer, for people that read the fine print of the Vision, is yes.
The issue of women in peace processes is very dear to me. Not only because I am a female diplomat, but most importantly because of the many inspiring concrete examples of women as agents of peace, agents of tolerance and agents of prosperity.
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