Thank you to the witnesses for testifying before us today.
These are very good questions. A lot of the questions I was going to ask were addressed in some manner.
Currently the top contributors to peacekeeping are Ethiopia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, and Rwanda. There was an internal UN study in 2014 that found that “peacekeeping missions routinely avoid using force to protect civilians who are under attack, intervening in only 20 percent of cases despite being authorized to do so by the U.N. Security Council”. Do you believe that this is a result of inadequate training of UN peacekeepers, or is this a result of a communication breakdown?