Harry McGee

So if we abandon the triple lock, Sinead was talking about peace enforcement.

So there hasn't been a peacekeeping mission in the UN since...

since mandated, since before the turn of the last century.

So nowadays it tends to be peace enforcement.

So when the Irish troops went in, for example, into the Balkans, peace enforcement, Mali, Chad, all of those places, peace enforcement.

And that's complicated.

And peacekeeping always involves the agreement of all parties.

including the warring parties.

So in Lebanon, for example, it was Israel, Hezbollah, the Lebanese government, all of the parties.

But in a more fragmented and fractious world, that's going to be more difficult to achieve.

And the Russia-Ukraine example is a good one.

If Russia objects to any UN peacekeeping force going in, that's not going to happen.

But morally, should it happen, for example, in Gaza, if the Turkey were to lead a peacekeeping or peace enforcement mission into Gaza and the Americans via Israel objected to that, you know, that would be technically...

correct for them because it wouldn't be peacekeeping anymore.

But from a moral and persuasive point of view, you know, would there be a compelling evidence look at other models?

So the model that is there at the moment is broken, but the model that's been proposed as the alternative is also full of difficulties.

How?