Experience in the UN Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) highlights many of the operational challenges in implementing the UN’s agenda of women, peace and security (WPS). As I reflected on my recent UNMISS deployment as …
Forty-five years after the last Australian troops came home from Indochina, the Royal Australian Air Force is flying Vietnamese peacekeepers to war-torn South Sudan. Early today one of RAAF’s giant C-17 Globemaster transport aircraft left …
The gun barrels had barely cooled after fighting in South Sudan a year ago when a tentative truce coincided with the arrival on Juba’s streets of Chinese workers in their high-vis vests. In cars or …
The beat New US centre to promote safe drone use The Police Foundation in the US has established a Center for Unmanned Aircraft Systems in Public Safety, to help law enforcement agencies make informed decisions …
The beat LAPD seeks transparency in releasing arrest footage The Los Angeles Police Department has voluntarily released body-camera video showing the arrest of a suspect who later died in custody. Still haunted by footage of …