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\tFamiliarization with particularities and challenges with one of the most durable UN peacekeepingmissions was the main aim of study visit to civil and military component of UNFICYP<\/a>\u00a0mission which\u00a0Belgrade Centre for Security Policy\u00a0organized 25th and 26th of May for nine-member delegation from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Macedonia and Norway.<\/strong><\/p>\n \tSpecial Representative and Head of the United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus Lisa Buttenheim and Major general Kristin Lund, Force commander, adressed the delegation. UNFICYP is only mission in which women are at the head of mission<\/a>.\u00a0 In order\u00a0 to introduce the challenges of civilian dimension of peacekeeping in Cyprus Munehiko Harada from Department for Civil Affairs, legal adviser Fabio Buonomo, Nenad Djuri\u0107 from civilian police and Major Nikolaus Barthl liaison officer from the Office for Civil Relations presented their point of vews.<\/p>\n \tMain challanges are of civil charachter, but due to modest police presence, military is often tasked to address them. Representatives of mission emphasized that over 10 000 people live and work in Buffer zone and, even though there weren\u2019t human fatalities and armed incidents lately, during 2014 there were over 1000 incidents which makes this mission very demanding.<\/p>\n \t{image2}<\/p>\n \tUNFICYP is one of the first UN missions, its mandate<\/a> defined in accordance with Chapter 6<\/a>, which implies peaceful separation of the forces. Mission members pointed out that this mission is relatively safe, thus the soldiers are mostly unarmed.<\/p>\n \tSerbian army members are parts of parent Slovakian and Hungarian contingents in the mission. They have been assigned the task of monitoring the condition of Turkish and Greek Cypriots military forces. Serbian delegation visited members of Serbian police and army in Cyprus.<\/p>\n \tIn evaluation forms, completed by participants of the study visit, it was stated that that experience from this visit can be useful for preparation of officers\u00a0 that are going to be sent in missions and for planning of future engagement in missions.<\/p>\n \tMarko Milosevic, BCSP researcher and John Karlsrud from NUPI led this study visit. They were accompanied with: Milan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 form Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia, Igor Ku\u017eelka from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Gordan Bosanac from Center for Peace Studies from Zagreb, analyst at OBRIS Igor Tabak, Denis Had\u017eovi\u0107 from Center for Security Studies from Sarajevo, Ankica Tomi\u0107 from Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Andreja Bogdanovski from organization Analytica from Skopje.\u00a0<\/p>\n \t{image3} {image4}<\/p>\n \tTranslated by BCSP Intern\u00a0Ivana Markulic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Main challanges in peacekeeping mission UNFICYP in Cyprus are of civil charachter and they reflect the need for various civli expertise in peacekeeping missions. 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![Pyla and Athienou stations<\/a>, which is the evidence of their professionalism. Serbian contingent enjoys great reputation among Cyprus population, that can be seen in order of flags on one official building in Pyla. This is the only place on Cyprus where Greek and Turkish Cypriots live together and that fact makes the conduct of inter-ethnic relations quite challenging. Participants from Serbian delegation have given immeasurable contribution to the study visit with their constructive questions with which they have set these challenges in a broader context of civil engagement in the missions\u201c, said the BCSP researcher.<\/div>\n\tIn evaluation forms, completed by participants of the study visit, it was stated that that experience from this visit can be useful for preparation of officers\u00a0 that are going to be sent in missions and for planning of future engagement in missions.<\/p>\n\tMarko Milosevic, BCSP researcher and John Karlsrud from NUPI led this study visit. They were accompanied with: Milan Milo\u0161evi\u0107 form Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Serbia, Igor Ku\u017eelka from Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Serbia, Gordan Bosanac from Center for Peace Studies from Zagreb, analyst at OBRIS Igor Tabak, Denis Had\u017eovi\u0107 from Center for Security Studies from Sarajevo, Ankica Tomi\u0107 from Ministry of Security of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Andreja Bogdanovski from organization Analytica from Skopje.\u00a0<\/p>\n\tThis visit is a part of activities in the project \u201eWestern Balkans Civilian Capacities for Peace Operations<\/a> \u201c conducted by Belgrade Centre for Security Policy (BCSP) and Norwegian Institute for International Affairs (NUPI<\/a>), financially supported by Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. \u00a0Regional partners in this project are Centre for Peace Studies (CMS<\/a>), Zagreb, \u00a0Centre for Security Studies (CSS<\/a>) from Bosnia and Herzegovina and Analytica<\/a> from Macedonia.<\/div>\n\t{image3} {image4}<\/p>\n\tTranslated by BCSP Intern\u00a0Ivana Markulic<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main challanges in peacekeeping mission UNFICYP in Cyprus are of civil charachter and they reflect the need for various civli expertise in peacekeeping missions. That is the main conclusion of study visit which BCSP has organized for representatives of state institutions and civil society from Western Balkans countries.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":14196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8613,8616],"tags":[264,7076,10172,10173,7113,10171,7498,10170,7647,7881,7665,4282,5080,8098,8302,8276,6241,7478,6990,6752,7075],"vest_saopstenje":[9454],"coauthors":[164],"class_list":["post-20879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-foreign-policy","category-international-security-cooperation","tag-264","tag-balkans","tag-challanges","tag-charachter","tag-civil","tag-civli","tag-countries","tag-cyprus","tag-institutions","tag-mission","tag-missions","tag-organized","tag-peace","tag-peacekeeping","tag-reflect","tag-representatives","tag-society","tag-state","tag-study","tag-unficyp","tag-western","vest_saopstenje-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"vest_saopstenje","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vest_saopstenje?post=20879"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bezbednost.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=20879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}](\"http:\/\/www.unficyp.org\/media\/Map-Cyprus-UNPOL2.jpg\"){kind=link}