Defence Forces Review 2008

UNMIL – A UN Success Story
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29
‘The Politics of Collective Violence’, Tilly (2003), Cambridge University Press, Page 132.
30
UN Quarterly Report on the Human Rights Situation In Liberia, Nov 2006 – Jan 2007, Published May
2007.
31
UNICEF estimates the figure of child soldiers in Liberia to be 15,000. http://www.unicef.org.uk/press/
news_details.aspnews_id=182
32
Taken from an address given by the Secretary General Kofi Annan of the United Nations to the
Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on 30 January 1997. SG/SM/6151.
33
Financial support for DDRR processes are vital, funding in UNMIL is often donor dependent, Page
134.
34
Monographs can be accessed at http://www.iss.co.za/Publications/Mongraphindex.html
35
DDR is the same as DDRR, the rehabilitation in DDR is associated with Demobilization.
36
Timeline taken from Monograph No 106 October 2004 page 9 ‘Evolution of Peacekeeping and DDR
in Africa’. http://www.iss.co.za/pubs/Monographs/No106/Sec1.htm
37
The UNMIL mandate 1509 (2003), covers DDRR in Para 3, it states in sub para (f) that an action
plan for DDRR should be developed as soon as possible preferably within 30 days of adoption of the
resolution.
38
See – http://www.nndb.com/people/783/000044651/
39
First Progress Report of the Secretary General on UNMIL S/2003/1175 page 5.
40
Interview with the Secretary General’s Special Representative in Liberia February 2005.
41
Eighth Progress Report of the Secretary General on UNMIL - S/2005/560.
42
Fifteenth Progress Report of the Secretary General on UNMIL – S/2007/479 dated 08 August 2007.
43
Global Policy forum (UN Finance) – 18 Mar 2008, www.globalpolicy.org/finance/index/htm
44
Fifteenth Progress Report to the Security Council – 08 August 2007, S/2007/479
45
National Security Strategy of the United States of America 2002
46
Thomas G Weiss, ‘The Illusion of UN Security Council Reform’, The Washington Quarterly Autum
2003 PP 147-161.
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