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7 Dec, 11 tweets, 8 min read
#Miltwitter can be an echo chamber.

So if you are interested in #peacekeeping or the protection of civilians in conflict…

here’s a🧵 of 8 accounts I found useful to follow over the last year that will help prepare you for human security operations.
Who: @CivCenter
Centre for Civilians in Conflict

• reports
• analysis
• links to the wider protection of civilians community

Useful thread: how #COVID19 affected civilian protection activity around the world.
Who: @PDWilliamsGWU
Professor of international affairs, talking peace operations, Africa and the UN.

• Somalia analysis
• Ethiopia commentary
• UN peacekeeping activity

Useful thread: aims of, and comments on, the UN’s #SouthKorea Ministerial.
Who: @RichardGowan1
Director, Crisis Group

• Peace processes
• Workings of the UN
• Dry sense of humour (required for the other two topics)

Interesting tweet: Renewed Canadian 🇨🇦 and US 🇺🇸 interest in peace operations.
Who: @CrisisGroup
Independent, non-profit NGO looking at conflict prevention.

• Conflict flashpoints
• Developing crises
• Reports and articles

Interesting tweet: Wagner Group in the Central African Republic 🇨🇫
Who @ExCO_MOG
Rosie Stone, Human Security Course Director at the @DefAcUK.

• Human Security
• Gender
• Stratcomms

Interesting tweet: DCSU, cultural awareness and Female Engagement Teams.
Who: @Abigail_Watson7
Abi Watson, conflict and security policy coordinated at @Saferworld.

• Remote Warfare
• Persistent Engagement
• Stabilisation

Interesting thread: Persistent engagement, train/assist/advise/accompany and the issues surrounding it.
Who: @CedricdeConing
Research Professor at @nupinytt

• Research
• Effective Peacebuilding
• Africa

Tweet worth reading: lessons from complexity theory for peace building.
Who: @EffectivePOps
Effectiveness of Peace Ops Network

• International network
• Reports on each UN mission

Example report: recommendations for UNFICYP
To recap:
@CivCenter
@PDWilliamsGWU
@RichardGowan1
@CrisisGroup
@ExCO_MOG
@Abigail_Watson7 @CedricdeConing @EffectivePOps

If you think I’ve missed anyone else worth a follow, tag them below 👇🏼
And if you found that useful, here’s a thread of the UK’s Long Range Reconnaissance Group protecting civilians in #Mali

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24 Oct
How was your weekend?

Yesterday the LRRG arrived into camp after a tough 500km patrol to the far east of #Mali.

During the patrol we came across two armed men who chosen to open fire on us. In the resulting firefight both were killed.

A🧵. 1/
thesun.co.uk/news/16486348/…
It happened as the LRRG was patrolling across a huge stretch of rarely-visited terrain.

One of the important roles we carry out - being where armed groups don’t expect us.
2/
When we move, the force spreads itself out to find settlements, routes, and the armed bandits and terrorists who target the population.

In this case, the two armed men were travelling on a motorcycle across rolling desert and scrub.

When they saw us they quickly fled.
3/
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22 Aug
An update from UK ops in #Mali: Two weeks ago an armed group committed an atrocious killing of over 50 civilians in the villages around Outagouna. The #Malian Army and Nigerien troops from @UN_MINUSMA were first on the scene. We were not far behind.

A 🧵

theguardian.com/world/2021/aug…
The 🇬🇧LRRG is 250-strong, but it isn’t designated as a QRF.

Yet we can move fast and stay deployed on the ground for a month at a time, providing security for longer than most.
Outtagouna is around 150km from Gao. So the first phase was getting south. We received the news in the middle of the night and were moving 250 soldiers South first thing the next morning.

It wasn’t long before we were outside the town.
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28 Apr
Medevac is one of the most common training events of the @UN_MINUSMA mission rehearsal we are doing.

Here’s a bit more about the medical chain we’ve got. 1/11
First, every team has a Team Medic. Normally you’d train 1 per 4 person team, but given we’ve gone for 1 in 2. Double the medical provision.

Team medics provide care in the first 10 minutes.
2/11
Next in line is the Combat Medical Practioner or CMT.

Each company/squadron has a couple of these. Professional RAMC medics, they move with the Sgt Maj or in the Ridgeback ambulance.

Medical care within the first hour.
3/11
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