In addition to early warning,
preventive deployment, mediation, peacekeeping, post-conflict peacebuilding, and, accountability measures, this document included for the first time the problems of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.
It was set up as a regional mechanism to provide capability for rapid deployment of forces to carry out
preventive deployment, rapid intervention, peace support/stability operations and peace enforcement.
The new nation is expected to become a full member shortly,
preventive deployment in order to prevent
Preventive diplomacy, as defined in the Agenda for peace, has many components: confidence-building measures, fact-finding, early warning,
preventive deployment (of armed forces) and demilitarised zones (Ghali 1992).
(17) They have also participated extensively in the UN
preventive deployment mission.
The core of the structure remains ECOMOG, and its tasks (as drawn from the experiences of the three cases) of 'observing and monitoring, peacekeeping, humanitarian intervention, enforcement of sanctions and embargoes,
preventive deployment, and peacebuilding operations, disarmament and demobilization, and policing activities, including anti-smuggling and anti-criminal activities' (pp.
Thus, rapid
preventive deployment (with an operational capacity to upgrade to peace-keeping) may serve as a deterrent to and buffer between low intensity conflict and full blown warfare, which is the primary cause of displacement.
The new appointee has worked professional experience in Balkan matters: he currently serves as Spain's co-ordinator for the Stability Pact for South-Eastern Europe, and has worked as the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General and Head of the UN
Preventive Deployment Force in the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
Boutros-Ghali's ideas for coping with the proliferation of regional and civil conflicts erupting nearly everywhere boiled down to this:
preventive deployment of peacekeepers at the "earliest warning of serious trouble" and peace-enforcement" combat-ready units provided by member states" to "fill the gap between traditional U.N.
Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP) will finish their duties Sunday.
The Secretary-General also signalled a need for developing an international capability for preventive diplomacy,
preventive deployment of peacekeepers, peacekeeping, peacemaking and post-conflict peacebuilding.
How do you envision the realistic implementation of
preventive deployment?