United Nations Stabilization Mission Of The Congo: A Summary
military liaison in 1999 and a main mandate was to observe the ceasefire agreement that the DRC has signed. Due to the changing in the dynamic of conflict, it became evidently that UN needs more robust peacekeeping force to protect civilians. In that regard MONUC was subsequently renamed to United Nations Stabilization Mission of the Congo (MONUSCO), after the approval of Security Council resolution S/RES/1925. In contrast to MONUC, the peacekeeping enforcement of MONUSCO had a military component (Bellamy &Williams, 2010). MONUSCO is the largest peacekeeping operations in the world, with a total of 21,485 uniformed personnel and 4539 civilian staff of which includes international, nationals and volunteers. It costs 3.8 billion dollars every
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According to United Nations UNDP statistics on the human development index in 2012, the DRC dropped from 167 to 187, officially became the list developed country in the world (Atussere, 2012). Thus interaction of the poverty, state failure, and war related violence created a dysfunctional society. In turn these social disorders and insecurity no assurance of tomorrow have led youth to seek status or another way of sustaining the hardship by joining different militia groups and commit act of violence. It is believed that more people have been displaced in 2013 than in 2006. (Derderian & Ponthieu, …show more content…
Are there things that should be modified to make it workable, such as the downsizing view, the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Integration (DDR) strategy, or the mix of humanitarian intervention and human right abuses that led to its poor performance? Finally, should MONUSCO’s approach be state-centered or community centered? By considering these various angles, we can understand what led to the exacerbation of gender violence in the DRC. The thesis will focus MONUSCO in the DRC to fulfill one the most crucial aspects of its multidimensional mandate, the Protection of Civilians (POC), and examine its applicability within DRC. More specifically, the research question that this thesis will address is “Why is the United Nations peacekeeping mission is failing to address gender based violence in the North and South Kivu`s of the Democratic Republic of the
According to United Nations UNDP statistics on the human development index in 2012, the DRC dropped from 167 to 187, officially became the list developed country in the world (Atussere, 2012). Thus interaction of the poverty, state failure, and war related violence created a dysfunctional society. In turn these social disorders and insecurity no assurance of tomorrow have led youth to seek status or another way of sustaining the hardship by joining different militia groups and commit act of violence. It is believed that more people have been displaced in 2013 than in 2006. (Derderian & Ponthieu, …show more content…
Are there things that should be modified to make it workable, such as the downsizing view, the Disarmament, Demobilization, and Integration (DDR) strategy, or the mix of humanitarian intervention and human right abuses that led to its poor performance? Finally, should MONUSCO’s approach be state-centered or community centered? By considering these various angles, we can understand what led to the exacerbation of gender violence in the DRC. The thesis will focus MONUSCO in the DRC to fulfill one the most crucial aspects of its multidimensional mandate, the Protection of Civilians (POC), and examine its applicability within DRC. More specifically, the research question that this thesis will address is “Why is the United Nations peacekeeping mission is failing to address gender based violence in the North and South Kivu`s of the Democratic Republic of the