I’m swamped with a melange of matters, so it’s light posting from me this week.* Still, I have to pass the following along:
Heard a talk last Friday by one of the central players in the creation of a judiciary in Bosnia and Kosovo at the conclusion of the war. (Full disclosure: my firm represented the Bosnian and Croatian governments in certain post-conflict negotiations.) He said there were three central lessons from the Balkan conflict:
(1) If you provide police or peacekeepers, arm them.
(2) If you provide police or peacekeepers, provide a lot of them.
(3) The Germans and Canadians can be key allies because they are particuarly adept at translating Americanese into French and UNese. They understand us, and they are capable of making the French and the UN understand us — which is a rougher trick than you might think.
Well, one out of three . . . .
*Any second to fourth year patent litigators looking for a job in Indianapolis? (Technical background not required — heck, I’m a liberal arts/economics guy.) We’re desperately in need.
Also, don’t invite the French because they don’t have a side that is apparent to the light of day. Don’t go into any venture if the UN is in charge…..their decision process is alwasy OBE (overcome by events).
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interesting and more or less intuitive: …there were three central lessons from the Balkan conflict: (1) If you provide police or peacekeepers, arm them. (2) If you provide police or peacekeepers, provide a lot of them. (3) The Germans and Canadians c…
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