Accountability Deficits in UN Peacekeeping: Challenges and Pathways to Reform

[I]t’s all about command and control. If you have a good commander. When I left and in those field offices, they have temporary operating bases. In temporary operating bases where troops are sent small groups to be in a community because they were burnings, lootings, rapes […]. So, we will open a temporary operating base in the context of a protection of civilian mandates, the armed groups somewhere else. And they will do the same thing. So, then we’ll open another temporary operating base. In the next village, et cetera. But it’s a very big country and we don’t have unlimited troops and a temporary operating base in a very remote location that you can’t reach without driving over very bad roads for a day in the rainy season might be even worse than that. You can barely reach it at all. They’re very isolated and they’re just amongst themselves in community and there’s not constant visitors from the UN to see what’s going on and there’s a nice fence around the entry gate and then we see that there’s a tunnel dug under the fence in the back where people can just come in and out.(141)

This statement demonstrates that even if the UN’s zero tolerance policy creates the…

Since the UN takes action via its agents and organs, to evaluate its failures to…