"The multidimensional, uncertain and transnational nature of the current threat creates a global risk with respect to which no country can consider itself immune". The Defense Chief of Staff, General Claudio Graziano, thus began his analysis of the current international geopolitical scenario during the Conference of Chiefs of Defense Staff at the United Nations headquarters in New York.
In particular, General Graziano, at the invitation of the UN, was the protagonist of a panel on the challenges of the current and future operations of peacekeeping.
The complexity of the current scenario entails - as highlighted by General Graziano - the development of an adequate response and the role of international organizations is fundamental.
General Graziano, who was head of the UNIFIL mission in Lebanon in the very delicate years immediately following the 2006 conflict between Israel and Hezbollah, then underlined the importance for the United Nations of having the ability to lead the management of current crises.
An important emphasis was placed by the Italian military summit on the need for a comprehensive approach for the operations of peacekeeping that takes into account, from the lowest levels, all the instruments of power: diplomatic, informative, military and economic in order to really be able to involve both local and international authorities in the process of reconstruction and development of the areas that have suffered the collapse state.
The Italian role in UN operations is of prime importance. Our country, in fact, is the first contributor in terms of troops among Western countries with a significant participation in operations in Lebanon and Mali.
