After a few more minutes, Ambassador Meise has shown up to receive the word from the Speaker once again. When asked to come to the lectern, she presented following new resolution proposal:
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Department of Peace Operations
Section A — Purpose
- The Department of Peace Operations (DPO) shall be a department under direct supervision of the Committees of Health and International Law. It shall integrate and deploy different resources in peace operations sanctioned by the WF Assembly.
- The main tasks of the DPO are to
- fulfill basic needs by distributing aid
- ensuring the safety of civilians and generally ensuring human rights
- saving salvageable infrastructure, especially key infrastructure
- protecting cultural sites, especially those deemed to be of major international significance by the ICHPP according to WFR 5 and those of major significance for minorities.
- preventing the intervention of other foreign troops or replacing foreign troops in areas torn by violence, especially during and directly following wars. The DPO is allowed to work alongside foreign troops, if necessary.
- This resolution supercedes WFR 13, which shall be lifted for neither having been nor being enforceable.
Section B — Definitions
- Basic needs according to this resolution cover common physiological needs like fresh air, food, clean water and warmth as well as medical treatment with medicine, vaccines and contraceptives.
- Foreign troops are all armed forces not belonging to the official government of a country.
- Humanitarian operations are all DPO missions mainly fulfilling the task laid out in Section A, Subsec. 2, Letter a.
- Key infrastructure is all infrastructure necessary to fulfill basic needs for a group of people. Key infrastructure in the wider sense can not only include hospitals or agricultural farms, but also bridges, streets, railroads, stations, schools or places of worship.
- The official government is any sitting government, which has not been declared illegitimate by a majority in the WF Assembly.
- Peace operations are all humanitarian and peacekeeping operations.
- Peacekeeping operations are all DPO missions mainly fulfilling the tasks not fulfilled by humanitarian operations.
- Salvageable infrastructure is all infrastructure, that is either still in well condition or which only requires relatively minor repairs to become usable for civilians again.
- A war is an armed conflict between two parties, at least one of which has to be the official government of a country.
Section C — Organisation
- The DPO consists of two branches. The branch for humanitarian operations is mainly under HEA’s supervision, whereas the branch for peacekeeping operations is mainly under the supervision of INL.
- The DPO shall receive personnel and resources from the HEA, the INL and from volunteering WF participants. This includes, but is not limited to, healthcare workers, policing forces, teachers and a team of analysts and experts, who can independently assess the success of DPO missions.
- All DPO missions require qualitative and quantitative goals, the success of which can be assessed.
- The team of analysts and experts shall oversee the DPO missions and report on them to the Committees every three months. If a mission is in danger to not meet its goals, the Assembly shall decide on solution proposals presented by the Committees.
Section D - Deployment
- To receive aid from a humanitarian mission by the DPO, governments are required to apply for it. The Assembly will vote on the application in analogy to an ordinary resolution. Under normal circumstances the Assembly is highly encouraged to grant aid to an applicant, if there are at least 100,000 inhabitants lacking fulfillment of their basic needs due to the government not being able to provide for them.
- If the application for a humanitarian mission is accepted, the DPO will coordinate the logistics in cooperation with the official government or with locals, if there is no official government or the official government is asking for it.
- If inhabitants of a country instead of its government are applying to receive aid through a humanitarian mission, the DPO shall seek arbitration in talks with the official government to improve the situation of the applicants and the group they represent.
- The WF participants’ right to supply a nation with humanitarian aid, who has not applied for the DPO’s help, is not touched by this resolution. However, WF participants are encouraged to supply and coordinate humanitarian aid through the DPO whenever possible for higher efficacy and sustainability of humanitarian aid missions.
- For the installation of a peacekeeping mission, the rules laid out in WFR 1d continue to apply.
- After the Assembly has passed a standard resolution imposing a peacekeeping mission, no additional foreign troops of WF participants shall be deployed to the area in question. Present foreign troops of WF participants shall immediately cooperate with the DPO by transferring command to it, or withdrawing after the arrival of DPO troops in case they do not intend to cooperate with WF forces. WF participants purposefully going against the provisions of this subsection will be trialed at the WFIC.
- If the goal of a peacekeeping mission is met, the DPO shall gradually phase out their mission and let the then official government of a country take over again. The resolution does not touch the WF participants’ right to extend their own peacekeeping efforts in a country, if the then official government is asking individual countries to extend their peacekeeping presence beyond the DPO’s mission.
- WF participants or individuals being citizens of a WF participant using the DPO for personal profit or trying to sabotage its missions will be fined by the WFIC. If necessary, the WFIC can decide on further, stricter sanctions.