Round Table «Peacekeeping in a Fragmented World: New Challenges and Prospects»

On June 23, 2025, the round Table «Peacekeeping in a Fragmented World: New Challenges and Prospects» was held in Moscow, hosted by Center for Social and Conservative Politics (CSCP) and Globus Expert Club with the participation of Global South Think Tanks Alliance experts.

The event was opened by CSCP communications chief Sofia Kozlova, noting that the redistribution of military, political and economic influence is a priori fraught with an increase in the conflict potential in the world: «This circumstance deserves special attention due to the fact that countries with a complex political structure and unresolved internal and external conflicts claim the status of independent centers. Fundamental questions remain open, including how the internal political processes in these countries will develop in the new conditions, how relations between various centers, as well as between the centers and neighboring countries, will develop».

According to the moderator, traditional methods of peacekeeping are increasingly ineffective, as in the case of India and Pakistan or the escalation between Israel and Iran, so new approaches are needed: «Geopolitical interference by superpowers, arms supplies and information wars make it difficult to reach compromises. New, inclusive approaches are needed, based on historical realities and the participation of all stakeholders. Only a comprehensive strategy will ensure sustainable peace in a changing world».

Yulia Berg, founder of the Globus Expert Club, stressed that since the 1990s, UN resolutions have been increasingly ignored, and old decisions remain unimplemented: «There is no single system of rules governing international relations. At the same time, if the current conflicts escalate into nuclear escalation, the consequences could be catastrophic for the entire human civilization. Therefore, it is necessary to understand what tools and structures can really prevent wars and ensure peace», the expert said.

Dragana Trifkovic, head of the Center for Geostrategic Studies (Serbia), noted that peacekeeping missions should promote reconciliation and follow international law, but in practice this does not happen:

„The topic we are discussing today requires urgent attention from the international community due to the escalation of an increasing number of conflicts. Peacekeeping missions are essentially conceived as operations with a peacekeeping mandate that encompass a wide range of measures. According to the UN Security Council, this ranges “from traditional methods of peaceful settlement of disputes under Chapter VI, such as promoting reconciliation, assisting in the implementation of a peace agreement or mediation and good offices, to more forceful actions under Chapter VII, which authorize a range of measures, including the use of force under Article 42 of the Charter.

Operations imply respect for international law and a neutral attitude towards conflicts, but in practice it is shown that peacekeeping missions have transformed themselves in the direction of pursuing geopolitical interests. This transformation occurred during the period of the monopolar world order under the influence of the then leading Western powers led by the USA, which compromised the role of international organizations that had lost their neutral status through corruption. In fact, international missions were transformed as part of the implementation of the doctrine of the Clash of Civilizations in order to become an integral part of the conflict management mechanism under the monopoly of Western powers.

This applies to UN, NATO and OSCE missions, while the role of regional organizations that are not under the dominant control of Western powers is marginalized.

As one example of the abuse of peacekeeping missions to achieve the geopolitical goals of the West, I will cite the example of the southern Serbian province of Kosovo. NATO’s aggression against Serbia in 1999 was launched on the basis of fabricated accusations of genocide against the Albanian population of Kosovo and  the implementation of the special operation Racak, which is identical to the Buca operation. The special operation Racak was led by William Walker, an American diplomat and CIA agent, who at that time was the head of the OSCE verification mission in Kosovo.

The NATO bombing was carried out without a decision of the UN Security Council. The operation ended with the adoption of the Kumanovo Agreement, on the basis of which the UN Security Council Resolution 1244 was adopted. Based on Resolution 1244, the territorial integrity of Serbia was confirmed, including the southern Serbian province of Kosovo. The United Nations Mission in Kosovo, known by its acronym UNMIK, was mandated to help establish conditions for a peaceful and normal life for all residents of Kosovo and to promote regional stability in the Balkans.

The presence of international peacekeeping forces such as KFOR which is NATO, OSCE and the European Union mission was provided to support the UNMIK mission.

Over the past 25 years, these missions have acted in complete contradiction to international law and the valid  Resolution 1244, which resulted in the creation of the fake state of Kosovo, which is a source of instability for the whole of Europe.

During the mandate of the peacekeeping missions, a pogrom was committed against the Serbian population in the southern Serbian province in 2004. organized by members of the terrorist organization Kosovo Liberation Army.

During the pogrom, killings and ethnic cleansing of villages and towns from the Serbian population were carried out, numerous medieval Serbian churches and monasteries were destroyed, as well as the property of the non-Albanian population.

All events were attended or participated in by the International Mission in Kosovo, which consisted of 20,000 KFOR members, 3,000 UNMIK members, 6,000 Kosovo Police members and their leaders. Peacekeeping missions did not detect or prevent terrorist attacks, but served as a guarantor of the implementation of chaos.

As an epilogue, we can confirm that the international missions in Kosovo are acting in complete contradiction to international law, Resolution 1244 and their own mandate to ensure peace and implementation law, legalizing separatism and ethnic cleansing.

We had the same example in Ukraine after the signing of the Minsk Agreement, where, in addition to representatives of the warring parties, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) played a role in monitoring the implementation of the peace agreement and preventing further conflicts. However, the OSCE did not react to the constant violation of the ceasefire, i.e. military actions of the Ukrainian army against the population.

What is interesting is that peacekeeping missions changed their personnel every six months, because that is enough time for each mission participant to understand the situation and the wrong role of the mission. For example, in Kosovo, the commander of the French forces Jacques Hogard resigned and wrote a book called „Europe Died in Pristina“. NATO officer Kristian Kahrs from Norway resigned and opened a website called „Sorry Serbia“. Mary Martha Walsh and Basil Henry humanitarians from Ireland who were in the UN mission in Kosovo wrote a book called „Hiding the Genocide in Kosovo“. There are enough such examples.

In the current geopolitical situation, which is a consequence of decades of ignoring international law and the non-functioning of international institutions, it is necessary to expose the role of peacekeeping missions and to determine their legal responsibility to date. This should be followed by an urgent reform of international institutions in order to eliminate the causes of their non-functioning, institutional weakness and corruption, in which a significant role can be played by regional organizations that are not in the service of Western transatlantic powers, such as the SCO, the CSTO, ASEAN, African Union, Arab League, etc. along with the formation of a new global security architecture“.

Source: Center for Geostrategic Studies/http://cskp.ru/2025/06/24/peacemaking-in-a-fragmented-world/