Abstract
With all the discussions on institutional challenges and the inner workings of the UN at headquarters in New York, it is too easy to lose sight of the real issue at hand: the millions of people who suffer during and after conflicts. We should never forget that the UN Charter was motivated by the desire “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war [and] to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom” (UN 1945: 3).
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Notes
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The total number of IDPs reached 180,000 by December 2013 and rapidly increased during the conflict, reaching about 1,600,000 in July 2016 (OCHA 2016).
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I would like to thank Cedric de Coning for highlighting this point.
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BINUCA was a peacebuilding mission without police and military components.
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MISCA stands for Mission Internationale de Soutien à la Centrafrique sous Conduite Africaine.
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Karlsrud, J. (2018). Chapter 6 People-Centered Reform at the UN? UN Peace Operations at a Crossroads. In: The UN at War. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62858-5_7
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