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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 10 Jan 1979, p. 9

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flict Resolution" as part of we peace and enetniet stu- dies program offered by Conrad Grebel. He has had a good deal of first hand experience in his subject area. He is the former chief of staff of the in UN peacekeeping mission in Cyprus. Since retirement from military life in in he has spent most of his time with the International Peace Academy, a New York based orfniaatiort which is funded by a variety Ittf foundations and private urces‘and which has been chad Hal-bottle. mutually teaching, at Conrad Gabe! College on the University at Waited” eet0tr, liberally wrinkles team to the wodd's meme mot: sad! as In. Northern Ireland. Vang-Gen. Barbottle " teaching a hoarse “Third Party Intervention in Coat Eincerned with the training of people for peaoemking and peace keeping roles. He has been senior lecturer, for the past several years. at the University of Bradford's School of Peace Studies , in England. Though he is no pacifist f "tht figttt again against an- other Hitler”). BrigAlem. Harbotue is particularly in- terested in non-violent roles for peace keeping forces. He feels there is often far more value in such an approach than in sending in a military mission bent on ending vio- lence through a program of counter violence. "I'd say the way the UN peacekeeping mission was conducted in Cyprus was muctrless counterproduc- tive than the Way the British Army has gone about things in Northern Ireland. or the way the Syrian military peo- ple have gone about things in Lebanon," he says. Though he sees advan- .ges in non-violent inter- "ention in many stiuations. lesia‘and Cyprus into Brig.-Gen. tlnrttottte we} at: that one must ttrat ud- ierstand the nature of the conflict being dealt with. You have to diagnose the ettetftict have deciding the beat way at reacting to it. He is otstqrotrertty critics! ttttte 1trmdtirttt oi e um of disputes, includinttlie tntatttts in Northen behind and manna. ' “As for Northen lrelsnd. I think what happened - the British army [and itself siding Him the Protestant side and consequently has come to be seen try Roman Catholics " the enemy." he s_a_ys. “Catholics had earlier Wt the army was com- ing in to protect tern}: _ . Me is critical of the Bri- tish and American pettie, on Rhodesia. and critical ot.the way in which the par- ticipants excluded the So- viet Union from current Israeli-Egyptian peace ne- gotiatimts. _ cold shouldered." he says. "and this is a vital weak- ness. One consequence has been the negative Arab reaction to the proposed peace settlement, under the leadership of Syria which is being given so much help by the Russians. If the Bus- sians had been brought into the picture at an earlier stage we might not have quite so much Arab intran- Though mistakes continue to be made, Brig.-Gen. Har- bottle feels that third party participation can often be very helpful in the settle- ment of both domestic and international disputes. He feels UN participation in the Congo, for instance. may well have prevented a third world war. “The Congo represented a very dangerous situation." he says. “I suppose Africa he says. “I suppose Africa remains the most dangerous area in the world today, but there is.in fact no point on the face of the earth where violence occurs that doest't completely tttations.". . lumbia. _ a" -. . " " His teaching at Waterloo One of the interesting BM " .. l , " . _." _. _ , ' . _ a" “sat-aiéé'i q » rj'C/'r)i'i'i'ir5'ri'r. ,',ii',c:s, . X’ "'j' . tsirtrrirri:' V _sscrrii,'vi,i)iiiris'k', l - Cr",. a rttrsaEi' r a ih','tcr.C,iircfij' ' w V *a"_‘."-~T§‘.w - gargas'M-gax; ?tx" _Fb' D 'l'. l, , :V E iRi'"tta're,ict, , (,i,,,i'1c,t, r,'l-s-ri'jr,sl'ya" . .» 'irc', , . 'illaii'i't Ll I Ll . , "i.i'iai)disties'iita, _ Pf.", a ' 1’4?" Y9." ' n“. _ _ .. I iiii5t . _ 'tlil" “W s? a; FT' k . _',' away. ' ”an i . 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Mrom India) In Cyprus. Prior to 1974 they had had 3 ttrest' deal ot. may“, in the only part of the swam. m- in: Turkish Cypriot: back into predominantly Greek the orymer.ot. Aitttirt, It "They were able, as in- dividuls. to do things that the United Nations forces and the two contesting par- ties themselves had been an; able todo tor no years," he" notes. “So there is a‘mle for the individual trtsiiiedHis nut-violent skills art tech- iliques in many of these If.. tuations."_ _ , His teaching at Waterloo hi at-th" an. involve-“lot mttrtttrqe'tiret Unu- W a-tttet, ttmmtt In.- violent 'rartieBation by UN portion. Mrt tip-hi tet "elrt.q. the' will oe It itat sotittir.'l it utr tiibiogratWiear.aeiuttint of (to UN _ftetatift P, Cyprus; "She Blue Bank." In overyiew of UN - keeping operniou, and “The Thin Blue Line." a study oi theurotmttinl tor peace keeping in modern MF dety. 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