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UN PEACEKEEPING

EDITORIALS
Feb 15, 2017
South Sudan mission and semantics
The government shouldn't downplay the security situation in South Sudan to justify the deployment of SDF troops there.
EDITORIALS
Nov 18, 2016
New SDF mandate in South Sudan
The government had better be aware of the possible ramifications of the expanded role it has handed the SDF in South Sudan.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Politics
Nov 15, 2016
Abe's Cabinet approves more muscular SDF peacekeeping role
For the first time since World War II, Japanese troops under certain circumstances will be allowed to use deadly force beyond self-defense.
Japan Times
JAPAN / Media / BIG IN JAPAN
Nov 12, 2016
South Sudan and Japan: a tale of love and civil war
If you can call South Sudan "stable," you can call anything stable. You can call anything anything.
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 25, 2016
Nature of South Sudan conflict will determine if SDF peacekeeping mission is legal
Questions of whether South Sudan is in a state of war or if the cease-fire there is still holding pose a test for the legality of the decision by the Abe administration to extend the Self-Defense Forces' peacekeeping operations there until March.

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