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taken by two branches of the armed forces, the Ministry of the Navy and theMinistry of Defence. 657The military mission is not the sole aspect of Brazil’s engagement in Haiti. Thecountry has also despatched police officials and civilians. In addition to this, in abilateral context, Brazil has made extensive use of technical cooperation, throughthe Brazilian Cooperation Agency (Agência Brasileira de Cooperação, ABC), toaugment its engagement in the reconstruction of Haiti. Along with India and SouthAfrica, its partners in the IBSA Fund, Brazil has financed a recycling plant in Portau-Prince,for example. 658In more general terms, it is noted that peacekeeping became part of the policy ofcivil-military reform in Brazil, but also that with reform of the political role of themilitary in Brazil, diplomats obtained an additional instrument in the service offoreign policy, namely the ability to deploy troops on peacekeeping missions. 659Hence, peacekeeping commitments served a domestic purpose in Brazil, helping tointegrate the military under civilian command – an essential component of thedemocratisation process that commenced in 1982, and it served a purpose on theinternational stage, by providing Itamaraty with additional measures for assertingBrazil’s credentials as an emerging power. 660 Service abroad provided by the Haiticrisis arrived at an opportune time for the redefinition of the military’s identity interms of external missions, rather than internal missions, such as pacifying andprotecting the Amazon, for example.At the systemic level, as noted by Hirst,The types of responsibilities assumed by the South American countries in Haiti areclosely connected to a new set of expectations imposed upon middle incomecountries (MIC) with consolidated democratic institutions and with values that are657 See Arturo C. Sotomayor Velásquez, “Different Paths and Divergent Policies in theUN Security System: Brazil and Mexico in Comparative Perspective”, InternationalPeacekeeping,16, No. 3 (2009): 364-378.658 Amorim, “Overview”, 226.659 Velásquez, “Brazil and Mexico in Comparative Perspective”, 372. See also MonicaHirst, “South American Intervention in Haiti”, in Revisiting Borders between Civilians andMilitary: Security and Development in Peace Operations and Post-conflict Situations,ed., Hamann, Eduarda (Rio: Viva Rio, 2009): 101-109; 102 for Brazil in comparativeregional perspective.660 Velasquez, “Brazil and Mexico in Comparative Perspective”, 372.256