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A Commission Response

A Commission Response It is a privilege to be part of this process of reflection and reconsideration, I was very stimulated and challenged by the earlier remarks, but I will re- sist the temptation to respond directly, because it would, I'm afraid, con- sume the whole time available for my presentation. Let me say that the basic perspective, I think, that underlay the approach of the Commission and my own thinking was to seek to do our best to learn from the Kosovo experience and to translate that learning into a per- spective that might enable a somewhat more successful response to subse- quent challenges which we regarded as part of the texture of international society as it is evolving in this post-Cold War world. In that context of learning from the successes and failures of responses to humanitarian ca- tastrophe, I think it's very important to have humility in our relationship to these confusing, and often ambiguous, realities. They are extraordinarily complex to begin with, and because of the complexity and the effort to mobilize political consciousness in one or another direction, there is a strong temptation to manipulate the mind of the public and of the media in a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of International Peacekeeping Brill

A Commission Response

Journal of International Peacekeeping , Volume 7 (1): 7 – Jan 1, 2001
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Brill
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Copyright © Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
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1875-4104
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1875-4112
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10.1163/187541101X00219
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It is a privilege to be part of this process of reflection and reconsideration, I was very stimulated and challenged by the earlier remarks, but I will re- sist the temptation to respond directly, because it would, I'm afraid, con- sume the whole time available for my presentation. Let me say that the basic perspective, I think, that underlay the approach of the Commission and my own thinking was to seek to do our best to learn from the Kosovo experience and to translate that learning into a per- spective that might enable a somewhat more successful response to subse- quent challenges which we regarded as part of the texture of international society as it is evolving in this post-Cold War world. In that context of learning from the successes and failures of responses to humanitarian ca- tastrophe, I think it's very important to have humility in our relationship to these confusing, and often ambiguous, realities. They are extraordinarily complex to begin with, and because of the complexity and the effort to mobilize political consciousness in one or another direction, there is a strong temptation to manipulate the mind of the public and of the media in a

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Journal of International Peacekeeping – Brill

Published: Jan 1, 2001

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