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UN Efforts in the Middle East: Helping or Hurting?

UN Efforts in the Middle East: Helping or Hurting?

Open to Debate

March 14, 202553m 15s

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Show Notes

UNRWA and other peacekeeping forces in the Middle East play an important role in the Israel-Palestine conflict, but do they do enough? Those saying they help argue that they act as buffers between warring factions, preventing wider regional escalation. Those saying they hurt argue they fail to maintain neutrality. Now we debate: UN Efforts in the Middle East: Helping or Hurting? 

 

Arguing Helping: Richard Gowan, UN and Multilateral Diplomacy Director at the International Crisis Group 

Arguing Hurting: Hillel NeuerExecutive Director of UN Watch  

 

Emmy award-winning journalist John Donvan moderates 

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