Despite the availability of a safe and effective vaccine, the Ebola outbreak evokes many similarities to the global fight against the COVID-19 pandemic.
It is critical that the UN adapt peacekeeping to the current pandemic by addressing the health of peacekeepers.
The GCTF model is a potentially feasible and effective remedy to address the current global pandemic and prevent future ones.
The conflict has been propped up by blame games, ineffective diplomacy, recurring geopolitical tensions and proxy warfare in the Great Lakes region, and the Congolese state’s weak commitment to addressing grievances that drive armed group proliferation.
China will likely continue to shape peacekeeping along its preferences for a more technical and less overt political foreign policy tool.
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