Cooperation and the Future Prospectus : The Assignment of "Rush-and-Rescue" Mission to the Self-Defense Forces and its Policy Implication

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  • 日本の国際平和協力と今後の展望 : 「駆け付け警護」 任務付与の背景とその政策インプリケーション
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The paper examines the background and consequences of the addition of the so-called kaketsuke-keigo (rush-and-rescue) mission on the role of Japan's Self-Defense Forces (JSDF) in UN peacekeeping operations (UNDPKO). Previously, the Japanese peacekeepers bad been allowed to use weapons for self-defense purposes alone. With the sharp increase of the "protection of civilians" mandate in the recent UNPKO, the overly narrow constraints bad increasingly become problematic, leaving a consequential gap with the standard rules of engagement on the UN side. As a resul???? the International Peace Cooperation Act (IPCA) was amended in September 2015 to allow JSDF personnel to use weapons not only for self-defense pwpose but also to carryout their mandates. In December 2016, the lraketsuke-keigo task was assigned to the GSDF team deployed in South Sudan in order to enable them to use weapons for the protection of civilians. As it was tasked to an engineering unit, which is not suitable for the combat-oriented missions, however, what the kaketsuke-keigo duty enables the Japanese peacekeepers to do will arguably be more, not less vague.

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