from Senegal commented about their own UN experience. At
the end of the ceremony, Col. Todd Ashurst from Australia rang
the bell three times to celebrate the peacekeepers of the past,
present, and future. The photo below depicts the International
Fellows at the U.S. Army War College, who previosly participa-
teed in UN missions at the International Day of United Na-
tions Peacekeepers
About the Author: LTC Akikazu Shibasaki is a Japanese
exchange officer to PKSOI. After his commission in 1994 as
a field artillery officer, he has experienced in various positions
of international affairs in the Japanese Ground Self Defense
Force. In addition to the domestic assignments, he participated
in the United Nations Disengagement Observer Force in 2003
as a deputy contingent commander of a Japanese deployment.
Before his assignment to PKSOI, he was a Japanese LNO to the
US Army Combined Arms Center in Fort Leavenworth, KS. In
PKSOI, he works as a peace operations analyst in Peace Opera-
tions Division.
Notes:
United Nations. Secretary-General’s Message for 2018. Re-
trieved from http://www.un.org/en/events/peacekeepersday/
sgmessage.shtml
2
Ibid.
3
The Improving Security Peacekeeping Project (2017). Im-
proving Security of United Nations Peacekeepers: We need
to change the way we are doing business. United Nations, p.1.
Retrieved from https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/
improving_security_of_united_nations_peacekeepers_report.
pdf.
4
Ibid, p.10
5
Ibid, p.13
6
https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/troop-and-police-contribu-
tors
7
https://www.militarytimes.com/flashpoints/2018/03/29/
us-will-only-pay-25-percent-of-un-peacekeeping-from-now-on-
haley-says/
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