Source: UN News: Friday, 11 April 2025 00:01 am
In the current era, the ceasefire is often being implemented in delicate circumstances after the armed struggle and it is proving difficult to guess violent conflicts in advance. In this backdrop, the United Nations peaceful has to bring rapid changes in its modalities as per the requirement among other challenges, including increasing political stresses, intentionally spread information, and other challenges. The head of the United Nations Peace Campauses, Pier Lakrooa, on Monday, addressed the diplomats of the member countries in the Security Council, stressed on bringing changes in the current methods. Tweet url
He said, “The monitoring of the ceasefire can no longer be limited to the appearance, it is about understanding the ground situation fast and taking steps accordingly.” The UN Under General Secretary said that the progress in technology is helping the peacekeepers to monitor the complex conditions in real time, due to which physical presence in those places is not necessary. It is important to maintain a political process, peace and security supported by the Saraksha Parishad, especially a political process, peace and security. Shantiraksha, the ceasefire can be an integral part of the monitoring system, but the responsibility of the success of any ceasefire is only dependent on the war.Unifil) The chief of Lieutenant General Arldo Lazaro Saenz, in his address, stressed the importance of political process. The UN Mission, UNIFIL was established in the year 1978, whose mandate was redefined in 2006 under the proposal 1701. The proposal was requested to put a stop to this confrontation after a 34 -day war between the Hizbollah faction and Israel in Lebanon. Under this, the responsibility of Unifil is to monitor the ceasefire, support the deployment of Lebanese Armed Forces in the southern Lebanon and provide routes for humanitarian aid. Following the attacks of Hamas and other Palestinian armed groups in southern Israel on 7 October 2023, there was challenges in peaceful efforts for UNIFIL, by the war between Israeli security forces and Hezbollah. Till November 2024 agreed to end the conflict between the two sides, it was proved to be difficult to fulfill this obligation. Lieutenant General Lazaro said that after a break on the confrontation and in the absence of a permanent ceasefire, a major obstacle is that all sides, proposals, resolve their fixed obligations under 1701 and now also about the conversion on the violence. Malance, a major challenge, deliberately affects the credibility of the United Nations peacekeepers and increases mistrust among the local people. This has led to a change in its methods to protect their credibility, show impartiality and strengthen the trust. Lieutenant General Lazaro said it is important to effectively contact local communities, to test facts and time to protect the fairness of the mission. Unifil has implemented a communication strategy to compete against propaganda or misrepresentation, so that any message is fact-based and clear in all peacekeeping units. “It is necessary that government officials also give public statements to make people the role of UNIFIL and the government to make public statements to be avoided, so that misinformation can be avoided.” Like UNIFIL, the United Nations in the Kango Democratic RepublicMonusco) Also, the challenge of wrong information to be spread deliberately is also facing the challenge. The armed groups take advantage of this to destabilize local communities and weaken peaceful efforts. An unmanned aerial vehicle or drone is being prepared for flight in Un Photo/Sylvain Liechti Goma. The misuse of technology Monusco Force Commander, Lieutenant General ULISES de Mescita Gomes conscious of emerging rage in front of peacekeepers, especially about armed groups that resort to modern technology to hide their hideouts and spread propaganda. Lieutenant General Gomes said, monitoring technology is important for peace, but armed groups, militia and criminal networks are also using them. He said, “In recent months, we have seen that armed groups are using easily available drones for espionage and encrypted messaging apps are being used for coordination and publicity,” which is not possible to find out with traditional monitoring methods. To deal with these emerging dangers, Monusco has changed its strategy and gives a change in their strategy. With the help of countries, new capabilities have been developed fast.
