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✅IMPORTANT OPERATIONS - ✨Operation Indravati (2024): Haiti intervention. - 🍧Operation Ajay (2023): Israel mission. - 🧊Operation Kaveri (2023): Sudan assignment. - 🌾Operation Dost (2023): Turkey and Syria involvement. - 🌾Operation Ganga (2022): Role in Russia-Ukraine conflict. - 🧫Operation Devi Shakti (2021): Afghanistan operation. - 🥥Operation Samudra Setu (2020): Response to the Corona pandemic. - 🥝Operation Sankat Mochan (2016): Sudanese civil war intervention. - 🥝Operation Maitri (2015): Assistance during Nepal earthquake. - 🎋Operation Raahat (2015): Aid provided during Yemen crisis. Source: Ambition Law Institute 🧑🎓

Very well said, by former ambassador Rahman.. "Bangladesh needs to revisit its outdated policy framework. As part of urgent review, Bangladesh ought to: i. Engage all domestic stakeholders to develop a recalibrated Rohingya and Myanmar policy. ii. Reflect seriously on what additional services that could be accorded to the Rohingya, such as access to employment and education as well as freedom of movement, with or without a change in the nomenclature to denote the Rohingya in Bangladesh. iii. Ensure greater security measures in the camps and their neighbouring areas to keep control over the Rohingya armed groups. iv. Consider some appropriate form of (indirect) engagement with AA/ ULA and discuss basic services, freedom of movement and citizenship for the Rohingya community, engage the NUG to secure a clear pathway towards citizenship of the Rohingya community. V. Remain open to consideration of humanitarian access to Rakhine through Bangladesh; on economic stabilisation of the Rakhine state, Bangladesh may explore all options for economic interaction with the Chattogram region as well as for access for the produces of Rakhine to the outside world through an appropriate value chain linkage. Given the changed ground realities and new refugee pressure, Bangladesh may engage international stakeholders on developing safe zones within Rakhine to stop fresh flow of Rohingya and to consider options of enhanced humanitarian access. They may be asked to contribute to economic stabilisation of Rakhine and an array of livelihood support for the Rohingya returnees. Beyond retributive justice at ICC and ICJ, they should commence work on healing of trauma, reconciliatio: among the Muslim Rohingya and the Buddhist Rakhines. In sum, Bangladesh requires to deploy a new brand of proactive and creative diplomacy to engage various stakeholders for better outcomes on the resolution of the Rohingya crisis and a mutually beneficial, multilayered relations with Myanmar."

📢 Publication alert: As we mark the official completion of the exit of the #SADC Mission in Mozambique (#SAMIM), our latest Ideas Indaba article explores how SAMIM’s withdrawal affects AU’s engagement in the Conflict in Northern #Mozambique. https://lnkd.in/g9A4qGuC

In this article for Hindustan Times I write about the possible ways in which ASEAN can address the Myanmar crisis. With the inputs from various discussions with senior NUG diplomats and civil society groups in Myanmar, here are a few suggestions which can help ASEAN implement the FPC. #whatshappeninginMyanmar https://lnkd.in/gX93vsv7

How do we know that the announcement has no meaning? When there is no action following it. This is right for releases of software (long story - don't ask) but it is deplorable when you hear those big policy statements from world leaders. We hear many warnings about the humanitarian crisis that the Israeli operation in Rafah will cause. But I cannot help but think that I take this dire state more seriously than those who made those statements*. They have two real options to delay the operation significantly and maybe avoid it: 1. Demand from Egypt to open the border with the Gaza Strip 2. Allow a large number of refugees who are now in Rafah to enter While both options are far from flawless (Hamas won't be happy that most of its human shields would flee for example), both would demonstrate frankly the commitment to save the civilians in the area. Whatever the reasons (internal, diplomatic, etc.) that these options weren't taken, it is obvious that the statements are no more than hot air, without any will behind them. This is clear for Hamas, for Israel, for the Palestinian civilians, for Egypt, and for anyone who gave it more than a short thought. Of course, this raises the question - why did they bother in the first place? Probably, there are a variety of reasons, but I am pretty sure that none of them including any serious care about the innocent Palestinians. * I still think that it is better than other available alternatives, but this is for another post

𝐂𝐚𝐧 𝐓𝐚𝐧𝐳𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐚 𝐛𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐄𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐧 𝐀𝐟𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚 𝐭𝐨𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐃𝐑𝐂? Tanzania is often seen as affiliating more with Southern than East Africa on regional issues. As a SADC and EAC member, can it mediate an alignment of the two blocs' different approaches to solving the east #DRC conflict? ISS Today by Nicodemus Minde https://lnkd.in/dr4G-eMh

Owusu on Africa: 'Better' alternatives to negotiated agreements - how they play out in Sudan - https://lnkd.in/gTZ7KipH - By Fidel Amakye Owusu One of the major impediments to the search for peace in a conflict situation is when there are better alternatives to negotiated agreements (BATNA). These often result from strategic, operational, or tactical advantage advantages a party feels it has before or during negotiations. It is for this reason

As the situation in the Middle East approaches the precipice of a wider regional conflict, it is useful to revisit and echo the joint call from Australia’s neighbouring countries through ASEAN, for a de-escalation of the conflict via: - improved access for humanitarian aid to Gaza including via electricity and water supply, medicine and food, - respecting the protection of civilians provided under the Geneva Convention and - a durable cease fire:   https://lnkd.in/gneJWFGt   This is in accord with the new and reaffirmed provisional measures ordered by the International Court of Justice in the case: Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide in the Gaza Strip (South Africa v. Israel) - that the provision, at scale, of urgently needed basic services and humanitarian assistance be unhindered and the military offensive be immediately halted.   This is approach is also consistent with the view of the International Red Cross that:   The grim reality in Gaza today is that nowhere is safe. The struggle to simply survive is robbing people of their dignity. International humanitarian law is designed to preserve human dignity even during the height of war. https://lnkd.in/gRSqyhkU  #Palestine #Gaza

Recently issued by @mokhacenter, the paper titled "The Belt and Road Initiative in Egyptian and Yemeni Policies," prepared by Dr. Khairy Omar, examines the Chinese #BeltandRoad Initiative within the contexts of Egyptian and Yemeni interests.  It explores opportunities for trilateral cooperation among #Yemen, #China, and #Egypt, focusing on each country's capacity to engage in transportation, development, and regional stability projects. It assesses the potential to establish a political or security protection framework to address the challenges the initiative faces in Yemen and Egypt. #BRI #MiddleEast For more details: https://lnkd.in/d3Fu9ts2

We’re pleased to launch our new analysis piece ‘Narratives that drive conflict: unpacking the term ‘settler and what it means in Darfur’. Written by Dawalbit Mohamed, the analysis looks at how the term ‘settler’ intersects with identity concepts in Sudan and consequently drives further conflict, particularly in Darfur.      Read the entire analysis to better understand:   - why the term ‘settler’ is so sensitive in Sudan  - how it is linked to conflict, land ownership and displacement in Darfur   - what its conflict sensitivity implications are for those responding to the current conflict.   ==> https://lnkd.in/dDcQztcV #Settler #conflict #keepeyesonsudan #land #aid