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Staffan de Mistura: Can the international community still stop wars?

Staffan de Mistura: Can the international community still stop wars?

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Is it time to acknowledge the irrelevance of the international peacemakers?

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At the end of the second decade of the 21st century, does anyone
still believe in the ability of the so-called ‘international
community’ to stop wars, disarm dictators and protect civilians?
One can decide by looking at the scale of suffering in Syria, the
renewed unrest across the Middle East and the imminent American
withdrawal from Afghanistan. Stephen Sackur interviews Staffan de
Mistura, who has been a UN envoy in all of those places over the
last decade. Is it time to acknowledge the irrelevance of the
international peacemakers?

Photo: Special Envoy for Syria, Staffan de Mistura Credit: AFP
via Getty Images