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Is there any evidence that the deployment of the nepalese soldiers had any ill effects at home? That their absence handicapped responses to those crises? On th

Is there any evidence that the deployment of the nepalese soldiers had any ill effects at home? That their absence handicapped responses to those crises? On the other hand, deploying the nepalese soldiers equips them with practical experience (some of which might well have come in handy after the 2015 quake), and I assume they are fairly well paid on a UN mission too. Injecting some cash into Nepal is not a bad thing.

throwaway049 11y ago
From the UN website it looks like poorer countries stand to make a (small) profit on deployment: >Peacekeeping soldiers are paid by their own Governments according to their own national rank and salary scale. Countries volunteering uniformed personnel to peacekeeping operations are reimbursed by the UN at a standard rate, approved by the General Assembly, of a little over US$1,332 per soldier per month. http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/operations/financing.shtml http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/operations/financing.shtml
- mseebach 11y ago
  Obviously, salaries aren't the full cost of a military, especially not on deployment, but US$1332 is ~140k Nepalese rupees, which is 4x the national average salary. http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=151&loctype=1 http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=151&loct... I would suspect this is fairly lucrative.
brownbat 11y ago
> Is there any evidence that the deployment of the nepalese soldiers had any ill effects at home? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost Take their travel expenses and peacekeeping salaries and repurpose those as a practical domestic training program or foreign aid. I only propose this as an alternative to the status quo, which apparently features useful practical lessons about sanitation, but only through trial and error in someone else's backyard.
phonon 11y ago
Unfortunately, the Nepalese soldiers didn't do shit (so to speak) in terms of the relief efforts after the quake. Source: Doctor I know who was doing relief work there at that time. It was also in the Clinton emails that were released (Chelsea Clinton was there and writing to her parents) https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_Web/IPS-0120/DOC_0C05774218/C05774218.pdf https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_W... "Speaking of censuses, the UN also needs a census of itself and its materials in country - including of the peacekeeper bases outside Port Au Prince. For example, we drove by 2 bases on the way to Cange and there were collectively, I would estimate, more than a hundred trucks and buses just sitting between the two, as well as at least 800 Napali soldiers (according to locals) laying effectively fallow - and I don't think anyone expects an outbreak of violence on the Central Plateau in the near future so even if they and their colleagues are deployed under UN Charter Chapter 6, surely preserving the peace could be interpreted to work with the settlements? At the least, their hardware could be used more effectively in Port Au Prince."

throwaway049 11y ago

From the UN website it looks like poorer countries stand to make a (small) profit on deployment: >Peacekeeping soldiers are paid by their own Governments according to their own national rank and salary scale. Countries volunteering uniformed personnel to peacekeeping operations are reimbursed by the UN at a standard rate, approved by the General Assembly, of a little over US$1,332 per soldier per month. http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/operations/financing.shtml http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/operations/financing.shtml

mseebach 11y ago
Obviously, salaries aren't the full cost of a military, especially not on deployment, but US$1332 is ~140k Nepalese rupees, which is 4x the national average salary. http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=151&loctype=1 http://www.salaryexplorer.com/salary-survey.php?loc=151&loct... I would suspect this is fairly lucrative.

brownbat 11y ago

> Is there any evidence that the deployment of the nepalese soldiers had any ill effects at home? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opportunity_cost Take their travel expenses and peacekeeping salaries and repurpose those as a practical domestic training program or foreign aid. I only propose this as an alternative to the status quo, which apparently features useful practical lessons about sanitation, but only through trial and error in someone else's backyard.

phonon 11y ago

Unfortunately, the Nepalese soldiers didn't do shit (so to speak) in terms of the relief efforts after the quake. Source: Doctor I know who was doing relief work there at that time. It was also in the Clinton emails that were released (Chelsea Clinton was there and writing to her parents) https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_Web/IPS-0120/DOC_0C05774218/C05774218.pdf https://foia.state.gov/searchapp/DOCUMENTS/HRCEmail_August_W... "Speaking of censuses, the UN also needs a census of itself and its materials in country - including of the peacekeeper bases outside Port Au Prince. For example, we drove by 2 bases on the way to Cange and there were collectively, I would estimate, more than a hundred trucks and buses just sitting between the two, as well as at least 800 Napali soldiers (according to locals) laying effectively fallow - and I don't think anyone expects an outbreak of violence on the Central Plateau in the near future so even if they and their colleagues are deployed under UN Charter Chapter 6, surely preserving the peace could be interpreted to work with the settlements? At the least, their hardware could be used more effectively in Port Au Prince."