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FEATURE ONE: ENDING IMPUNITY FOR PEACEKEEPERS INVOLVED IN SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE | 3 Dr. Gabriel Amvane | Legal Officer, CADA Jean Chaumien - Horizon Amitié, Strasbourg, France

SPECIAL FEATURE: ACUNS TOKYO FORUM MEETING Revitalizing the UN: Japan’s potential role | 5 Sukehiro Hasegawa | President of the Global Peacebuidling Association of Japan, ACUNS Liaison Officer in Tokyo, Chair of the Hiroshima Peacebuilding Center (HPC) Council and the Personal Advisor to former President and Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste Ai Kihara-Hunt | Associate Professor, Human Security Program (HSP), University of Tokyo, member of UN Police Doctrinal Development Group, University of Essex

HUMAN RIGHTS, MIGRATION AND GLOBAL GOVERNANCE 2018 ACUNS ANNUAL MEETING LUISS University | Rome, Italy

THURSDAY – SATURDAY > JULY 12–14, 2018 A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO OUR HOST AND CO-SPONSORS > LUISS University - Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali Guido Carli > Human Rights Section, International Studies Association > Human Rights Section, American Political Science Association > Human Rights Research Committee > International Political Science Association Standing Group on Human Rights and Transitional Justice, European Consortium for Political Research

For Secretary-General António Guterres, who was the High Commissioner for Refugees for a decade (2005–2015) before being elected to lead the UN, one of the most pressing issues currently facing the world body is the large-scale voluntary and involuntary (forced) movement of people across borders. While 2018 marks the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, political, economic, and environmental dysfunction and collapse in their own countries has driven a record high number of people to seek a safer or better life elsewhere. Equally present especially in the West, have been counter-reactions to immigration based on political, social, economic, and security concerns. One reason the United Kingdom is leaving the European Union, with Prime Minister Theresa May triggering “Brexit”, is because of voters’ concerns over the perceived threat of uncontrollable migration. President Trump likewise won office in the US election in part by appealing to many American voters’ fears of immigrants – whether from Mexico (the ‘wall’) or from conflict zones such as Syria.

The global governance and human rights issues in this contemporary era are manifest and complex. The Sustainable Development Goals will be impossible to achieve in the context of state failure, political conflicts, major climate disruptions, and mass population displacements. The rights of citizens also must be balanced against the rights of those fleeing persecution and desperation; more often, the latter are disregarded as populist movements refocus national discourses away from cosmopolitan ideals. These complex ‘wicked problems’ present severe contemporary challenges for the institutions, as well as the idea (and ideals), of global governance.

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As those who were there already know, I missed the 2017 Annual Meeting at Sookmyung Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea, due to illness, which was a major disappointment for me—the first AM that I have missed as Executive Director since 2003. It meant that I did not have the opportunity to thank my colleagues and friends at KACUNS who worked so hard to build and support the Annual Meeting program. I do know that the event was a great success, and very enjoyable academically, culturally, and socially for all those who attended. We are posting videos from the meeting, as well as continuing to upload presentations and papers as you send them to us: and we were especially thrilled to receive this congratulatory message from Secretary-General Antonio Guterres: http://acuns.org/message-from-the-secretary-general/ I have promised Brenda and Gwenith that I will do my best to avoid scratches and associated infections before the 2018 Meeting, which will be our “last hurrah” as your Secretariat team!

So, please do plan to join us at LUISS University in Rome, 12–14 July 2018 (yes, mid-July rather than mid-June) http://acuns.org/am2018/ ACUNS members also will know by now, that the Forward Planning Committee made its recommendations and the Board of Directors reached a conclusion to the evaluation process, and that your next ACUNS Secretariat will be hosted at the Centre for Trust, Peace and Social Relations (CTPSR), Coventry University, in the UK beginning in July 2018. Professor Math Noortmann will be taking over as Executive Director, and he and the CTPSR team will be collaborating with us very closely over the remainder of our term, as a “shadow secretariat” in preparation. This was a long and very competitive process, and the Committee and Board send their most sincere thanks to everyone who was involved either as ACUNS’ representatives or as members of the teams applying to host the secretariat. For more about the transition, see http://acuns.org/special-announcement-new-secretariat-team-and-host-institution/ The Committee and Board also completed the second of its two ‘transition’ tasks—identifying the next editorial team for our flagship journal, Global Governance, who will begin to handle the journal’s editorial duties in 2018. The formal announcement of the new team already has been disseminated, but since I gave a shout-out in the 2017 first issue of the newsletter to the great work done by the current team led by Ramesh Thakur and supported by One Earth Future foundation, this time it is my pleasure to welcome the new team of Ken Stiles (BYU), Alynna Lyon (UNH), Kurt Mills (Dundee) and Peter Romaniuk (CUNY), with the editorial office hosted and supported at Brigham Young University where Matt Clarke, a staff member at BYU, will be managing editor. Happily, I also can add that I will be part of the new editorial team.

I am writing this piece in late July, a little more than one week before I will travel to Santo Domingo to support the 2017 ACUNS Workshop that is being hosted 3–14 August by the Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (FUNGLODE). Thanks to the generosity of FUNGLODE and the UN Office of Human Resources Management, we again will bring together 18–20 rising young stars of academia and the UN system, to exchange their innovative ideas and hard-earned best practice lessons on critical issues of global governance: http://acuns.org/workshop17/ Issue 3 of our newsletter presents two articles that are interesting and challenging: the first comes from Dr. Gabriel Amvane and considers the problem of sexual misconduct and impunity of peacekeepers; the second piece offers a summary of the report by Professor Ai Kihara-Hunt and Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa, about the first special seminar organized by the ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office, exploring the revitalization of the UN and potential roles for Japan, which was held at UNU Tokyo shortly after the 2017 Annual Meeting. Thanks to Gabriel for exploring this difficult issue and sharing his observations; and to Ai and Sukehiro for their efforts in organizing and hosting the first event of our newest Liaison Office.

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FEATURE ONE

KEEPING A DISTANCE FROM JUSTICE?

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LEGAL OFFICER, CADA JEAN CHAUMIEN – HORIZON AMITIÉ STRASBOURG, FRANCE

PEACEKEEPERS INVOLVED IN SEXUAL EXPLOITATION AND ABUSE

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has become the main activity through which the UN endeavors to rescue millions of people affected by armed conflicts around the world; however, accusations of sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers destructively affects the reputation of the Organization and harshly harms local populations.

The feeling of impunity that surrounds these crimes exacerbates the reprehensible situation. of sanctions is based on immunity that often regrettably leads to impunity for peacekeepers.

The UN depends on its Troop Contributing Countries (TCC) to investigate and hold their soldiers accountable for any crimes committed on the ground during a peacekeeping mission.

Many TCCs, however, will only occasionally prosecute their soldiers for these crimes, leading to a culture of impunity.

DISMANTLING THE CULTURE OF IMPUNITY

ZERO TOLERANCE CAN ONLY SUCCEED IF STATES CAN AGREE WITH THE ESTABLISHMENT OF AN ACTUAL INDEPENDENT JUDICIAL COURT ABLE TO INVESTIGATE, AND IF NECESSARY PURSUE AND PUNISH THESE PEACEKEEPERS.

FIRSTLY, the UN could decide to institute ad hoc courts for each peace operation. Such courts would

SINCE

2003,

the Secretary-General

has argued for a ‘Zero Tolerance policy’1, but Zero Tolerance can only succeed if states agree with the establishment of an actual independent judicial court able to investigate, and if necessary pursue and punish these peacekeepers. Numerous examples have demonstrated that TCC are not willing to take concrete actions against their soldiers.

More recently, in January 2017, many defenders of women’s and children’s rights expressed their indignation after the New York Times 2 and other media outlets reported ‘A panel of French judges has decided not to bring charges against soldiers accused of having sexually abused children while on a peacekeeping mission in the Central African Republic’.

This refusal, the latest in a series of similar responses, creates doubt about the current system of sanctions and the willingness of TCC to pursue and punish their soldiers involved in sexual exploitation and abuse.

Only a court completely independent from TCC could bring justice for victims and restore trust where it has been broken between UN peacekeepers and inhabitants of host states. There are three forms of courts that the UN could use to effectively fight this problem.

1 ST/SGB/2003/13, Special Measures for Protection

from sexual exploitation and abuse, Secretary General’s Bulletin adopted on 9 October 2003.

2 New York Times, “No Charges in Sexual Abuse Case

Involving French Peacekeepers”, 6 January 2017.

3 A/71/818, Report of the Secretary adopted on

28 February 2017.

4 S/RES/1593 (2005), Resolution adopted by

the Security Council on 31 March 2005.

5 S/RES/1970 (2011), Resolution adopted by

be one of the components of the mission, but independent from it. These courts would be based on the ground in areas of peace operation in order to avoid overwhelming the Hague with peacekeeping ad hoc courts. This structure would also provide a better proximity for victims and accused perpetrators.

Hopefully, procedures would also be more effective and more rapid while maintaining the highest standards of due process. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon made a similar proposal of ad hoc courts in his 2015 report on Special Measures for Protection from Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, paragraph 60.

In the report, however, the Secretary-General proposed courts-martial established by each TCC, and depending on TCC. In his last report on the issue, he mentioned two courts-martial that were already investigated and sanctioned a peacekeeper, but this rarely happens.3 Knowing the unwillingness of TCC to pursue cases against their own soldiers, it is doubtful that such a measure could work efficiently.

Moreover, each TCC would establish its court-martial, which already creates inequality between peacekeepers deployed on the same mission, while ad hoc courts would have the advantage of being independent from TCC. As peace operations are already used to include civilian components, there would be no insurmountable difficulty to include personnel of ad hoc courts. What would be new is the establishment of an international criminal court based on the ground of peace operations. This approach would require specific measures for the security of judges and all other personnel of the court. The protection of the members of ad hoc courts would be challenging and problematic, as these personnel would depend on peacekeepers for their safety on perilous grounds, which means they would be protected by the very peacekeepers they are prosecuting, which could impact judgment.

IN THE SECOND SCENARIO, stakeholders could propose an amendment to the Rome Statute on the International Criminal Court, to extend the competence of the International Criminal Court (ICC) to crimes involving peacekeepers, including sexual exploitation and abuse. As some TCC are not parties to the Statute, the Security Council could insert such competence when establishing a mission, in accordance with article 13b of the Statute. The advantage of this model is that the ICC is already in place and there would be no need to create a new judicial body. Moreover, the mechanism of article 13b of the Statute is recognized by most states, and has already been used in some cases, such as Sudan4 and Libya.5 If needed, a new model of memorandum of understanding with TCC could be adopted to integrate the competence of ICC for sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers. There are, however, two key problems with this model: the ICC itself is presently facing many critics, and the number of allegations related to sexual exploitation and abuse in peace operations could overwhelm the ICC.

AS A FINAL OPTION, the UN could decide to create a special international criminal court to address this problem. While this may be the most practical and effective model, the main difficulty with such a court is that it likely would take years or even decades of difficult negotiations for states to reach an agreement on creating a new criminal court. After numerous consultations, the Code Blue Campaign proposed a similar solution. The court would be independent from TCC, from host states, and would function with the same principles that govern international tribunals (Rwanda and ex-Yugoslavia).

The current international tribunals work on a triple limitation basis: geographical (the former Yugoslavia for ICTY, and Rwanda for ICTR or Lebanon for STL), temporal (crimes committed in a limited period), and ratione materiae. The geographical and temporal jurisdiction of the new court would be more extensive to cover crimes committed by peacekeepers of all missions, in any host state. It would also be a permanent court. In its duties, the court would be assisted by the ‘Response Team’6 conceived by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon in 2015 to support investigations on sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers.

Leading these investigations would be the court’s primary purpose, but the model could include other crimes that may be committed by peacekeepers. Its competence would integrate UN peace operations, but also operations undertaken by regional organizations and individual states. Without such a judicial body, the UN could hardly fight sexual exploitation and abuse by peacekeepers and the ongoing reform of the UN peace operations should integrate a reflection on creating such a court.

the Security Council on 26 February 2011.

6 A/69/779, Report of the Secretary General

adopted on 13 February 2015.

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* Gabriel Amvane, PhD, is a Legal Officer at a Centre for asylum seekers in

Strasbourg (France). He previously worked with the Permanent Mission of the Gabonese Republic to the UN from September 2010 to December 2011.

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Revitalizing the United Nations: A potential role for Japan?

ACUNS TOKYO LIAISON OFFICE FORUM MEETING

SPECIAL FEATURE

This summary article is compiled from a detailed original report provided by Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa and Professor Ai Kihara-Hunt.

Following the successful conclusion of ACUNS’ first Annual Meeting in East Asia, held in Seoul, the first major meeting of the ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office Forum was held on 19 June 2017 at the United Nations University (UNU) in Tokyo, Japan. The forum was organized as an opportunity for Japanese and international participants to discuss the possibilities for revitalizing the United Nations and to explore Japan’s potential role in such revitalization. The participants included former Under-Secretary-General for Administration Yukio Takasu, and other senior officials of the Government of Japan, the United Nations system, the Japan Association for UN Studies, and local and international scholars. Included in the event were a keynote address by Mr. Yukio Takasu, the former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Administration and Special Advisor to the UNSG on Human Security; and two roundtable sessions on “Revitalizing the UN system – International and Japanese Perspectives” and “Challenges for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Role of Japan.”

The meeting was opened by Professor Ai Kihara-Hunt, from the University of Tokyo and ACUNS’ Tokyo Liaison Office; and Mr. Stephen Browne, co-founder of Future UN Development System (FUNDS) and current member of the ACUNS Board of Directors. Mr. Browne introduced ACUNS’ activities in the East Asian region and referred to the perception of the UN crisis. As part of the forum, which welcomed a wide range of practitioners and academics, participants were invited to share ideas for revitalizing the UN and to discuss obstacles and priorities for the organization and for the government of Japan.

THE FIRST SESSION, “Revitalizing the UN

Opinons on the authority of the UN included the argument that the Secretariat needs to be revitalized as it is crucial in global governance.

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System”, was chaired by Professor Sukehiro Hasegawa of the ACUNS Tokyo Liaison Office, and offered an in-depth examination of United Nations reform. The panel provided a forum for eighteen academics and practitioners to discuss the benefits, practicality, and potential limitations of reform. While many of the speakers agreed that there is a distinct need for UN reform, the nature—and feasibility—of reform was a contested issue and several participants expressed concern that budgetary and leadership limitations could hamper developments. The ensuing discussion also addressed the UN’s authority, which some participants see as decreasing or off balance. Opinions on the authority of the UN included the argument that the Secretariat needs to be revitalized as it is crucial in global governance. Similarly, there are potential problems with relying on decisions made at the Security Council as such decisions lack the necessary strategy and policy-oriented planning. Several speakers suggested that increased regional involvement and co-operation could overcome some of these concerns. Placing

emphasis on the contributions of member states also creates a specific role for Japan in the revitalization of the United Nations, but is only feasible if member states are accommodated as it depends on mutual co-operation.

These discussions touched on the correlation between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and UN reform, and the associated challenges of shaping the agenda for individual countries to reflect regional diversity and needs.

These issues were developed further during the second session “Challenges for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)”, chaired

by Professor Ryokichi Hirono, former Assistant Administrator of UNDP and Professor Emeritus of Seikei University. Specifically considering the role of Japan in achieving the SDGs, the discussion addressed issues such as the private sector’s support of SDGs, the challenges associated with specific roles and the importance of breaking out of organizational silos, and the disconnect between ideas and implementation. During the session, several speakers, both practitioners and academics, raised the point that the conceptualization of policies tends to be

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PRESIDENT, GLOBAL PEACEBUIDLING ASSOCIATION OF JAPAN, ACUNS LIAISON OFFICER IN TOKYO, CHAIR OF THE HIROSHIMA PEACEBUILDERS CENTER (HPC) COUNCIL AND THE PERSONAL ADVISOR TO FORMER PRESIDENT AND PRIME MINISTER JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA OF TIMOR-LESTE

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, HUMAN SECURITY PROGRAM (HSP), UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, MEMBER OF UN POLICE DOCTRINAL DEVELOPMENT GROUP, UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX, UK

The discussions touched on the correlation between the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and UN reform, and the associated challenges of shaping the agenda for individual countries to reflect regional diversity and needs.

IT IS IMPORTANT to review the impact at regular intervals.

Specifically considering the role of Japan in achieving the SDGs, the discussion addressed issues such as the private sector’s support of SDG’s, the challenges associated with specific roles and the importance of breaking out of organizational silos, and the disconnect between ideas and implementation.

markedly different than the implementation.

In light of this disconnect, it is important to review the impact at regular intervals. The next High-Level Political Forum to review the efficacy of the agenda will take place in 2019, and several speakers noted the potential benefit of reviewing impact to develop an effective long-term policy.

The implementation of the SDGs also requires co-operation between the UN, regional organizations, and the private sector. Although companies are profit-driven, they can still have a place in supporting and implementing the SDGs. There are already many businesses supporting the SDGs, and the UN’s campaign would be more effective if it was delivered as a business campaign and offered quality measurement to lead the private sector. While not all participants shared this particular view, it does fit with the wider opinion that a ‘whole-of-society’ approach is needed to achieve the SDGs. The need to involve more organizations and individuals was a common theme in the discussions on both revitalizing the United Nations and the challenges of implementing the SDGs. The need to involve youths in any

changes also was something emphasized in both sessions. In particular, human resource exchange would be a beneficial way to involve youths. Furthermore, if it is to succeed, United Nations reform needs support from the general public and especially from youths.

These sessions offered an excellent preliminary discussion on both United Nations reform and revitalization, and implementing the Sustainable Development Goals. The focus on Japan’s role in such developments allowed for concrete, and potentially achievable, examples. The ACUNS Liaison Offices offers a useful venue for such regional specialization that supports the interdisciplinary conversations between practitioners and academics. * Sukehiro Hasegawa is is a Japanese academic, educator, author and administrator. He served as the Special Representative of the Secretary-General of the United Nations for Timor-Leste and head of peacekeeping and peacebuilding missions, UNMISET, UNOTIL and UNMIT from May 2004 to September 2006. He is currently the President of the Global Peacebuidling Association of Japan, the ACUNS (Academic Council on the United Nations System) Liaison Officer in Tokyo, the Chair of the Hiroshima Peacebuilders Center (HPC) Council and the Personal Advisor to former President and Prime Minister José Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste. Source: Wikipedia

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* Ai Kihara Hunt is Associate Professor at the Graduate Program in Human Security; and Deputy Director, Research Center for Sustainable Peace, University of Tokyo. A human rights expert specializing in United Nations peace operations and security sector, she is also a researcher; trainer and project manager with work experience in post-conflict states. She holds a PhD in Law from the University of Essex, UK. aikiharahunt.com

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