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Darfur Failure, 2014. Column Lynch, Foreign Policy
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…Top peacekeeping officials recently completed a strategic review that highlights the #Darfur mission’s shortcomings, including a reluctance to confront challenges and a deep pessimism over the mission’s feasibility. Deliberations at the U.N. over its findings come as Foreign Policy has been publishing a trove of internal #UNAMID documents highlighting the blue helmets’ struggles to protect civilians. But the U.N. Security Council appears unlikely to shutter the $1.3 billion-a-year mission and declare defeat, reasoning that even a weak mission still provides some measure of deterrence against attacks on civilians.

“Richard Gowan, an expert on U.N. peacekeeping at New York University’s Center for International Cooperation, recalled an argument he had with a U.N. official about Darfur. “I said this situation has become so bad and in many ways is such a disgrace that this is one case where the U.N. should declare defeat and go home,” Gowan said. “The response from the U.N. colleague was that ‘we would love to declare defeat but we can’t. We have to accept this as a quagmire.’ There is a very strong sense within the U.N. that this was a mission that was set up to fail….”

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