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Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Over the past decade,
interest in cybersecurity has increased as the number of cyberattacks on
government administrations’ networks, water regulation systems and power plants
targeting system applications rises.
Binty has been asked to
address an audience on the topic of cybersecurity. She has read different
articles and reports and arrived at the following conclusions:
If kept up-to-date, older
professional software is less vulnerable than the latest software.
Unstable Internet
connections make it more difficult to quickly detect cyberattacks.
Internet-accessible
system applications are difficult to hack if the right protocols are followed.
People often do not
follow the protocols. However, most violations of the protocols are
unintentional.
People violate the
protocols more often at work than at home.
Mobile applications that
enable access to system applications are difficult to hack.
Organizations that have
received mandatory cybersecurity training are 15 times less vulnerable to
hackers than organizations that have not received such training.
Which one of the
following recommendations has the biggest positive impact on
cybersecurity?
Provide mandatory
training and _________.
Select one:
discourage people from
working from home using an internet connection
heavily sanction people
who intentionally violate protocols
invest in a stable Internet
connection
provide employees with
mobile devices
Read each passage and answer the question that follows.
A polling station in
voting district Z of the province of Merveria has made an allegation that a
police unit intimidated voters on election day. There are three voting
districts (X, Y and Z) and five police units based in the province, identified
as units A, B, C, D and E.
Marcin is trying to
determine which police unit was in district Z on election day and has the
following information on police activities on that day:
There was only one police
unit in district X.
Three police units were
in district Y.
Unit D was the only
police unit in district X.
Units D and E were not in
the same district.
Units B and C were in a
different district from unit A.
Which three items of
information does Marcin need to confirm which police unit was in district Z?
Select one:
Items 1, 4 and 5
Items 1, 2 and 5
Items 2, 3 and 4
Items 2, 3 and 5
Read the question below and select the best answer.
Research into
post-conflict nations in 1980 concluded that nations were less likely to lapse
back into states of conflict if steady development aid were provided directly
to Governments, as opposed to direct intervention which aims to impose
solutions on local populations. As a result of this research, most donor
nations shifted their funding models from direct intervention to national-level
financial aid. In 2010, however, researchers found that post-conflict nations,
on average, were worse off than they had been before 1980 despite there having
been no increase in overall levels of reported government corruption.
Which of the following, if true, best resolves the contradiction in
the research finding in the above passage?
Select one:
On average, donor nations
tended to provide variable or sporadic development aid.
Government corruption
meant that only a portion of aid was ever used as intended.
There were more
post-conflict countries in 2010 than there were in 1980.
The post-conflict
development agenda had changed significantly by 2010.
Read the question below and select the best answer.
Ceren is working for a
peacekeeping mission that has experienced conflicts between different rebel
groups. The mission aims to serve as an impartial mediator of the conflict
through meetings. Today, Ceren has been informed that a group of five people,
Tumoka, Umar, Vassar, Jacob and Asoku, who are the key members of the two rebel
groups, the KiKi and the Mimi, will visit her to discuss their concerns. Ceren
needs to know which rebel group each visitor belongs to before the meeting;
however, she has only the following information:
Umar and Asoku belong to
different rebel groups.
Tumoka and Jacob belong
to the same rebel group.
Vassar and Umar don't
belong to the Kiki.
Accordingly, which of the
following would definitely be an incorrect assumption that
Ceren should avoid?
________ is a member of
the __________.
Select one:
Umar; Mimi
Jacob; Mimi
Asoku; KiKi
Vassar; Mimi
Read the question below and select the best answer.
Toni is preparing a presentation that he is going to give to colleagues
entitled, The Future of Addressing Refugee Crises. At the end of his
presentation, Toni will make recommendations. Read what Toni is going to
say about the Roles of the State and of Private Enterprise and decide which
recommendation would be most consistent with what he says earlier.
Historically, the three
main durable solutions to a refugee crisis — resettlement, repatriation, and
local integration — have all been about reintegrating refugees into a
state. Increasingly, however, the private sector is playing a role.
Recently, the IKEA Foundation, for example, gave the largest private sector
grant in the history of the United Nations to UNHCR, donating €110
million. Other multinational corporations are also increasingly engaging
with the work of UNHCR. Private enterprise can mobilize resources almost
instantly compared with most state entities. However, it would only take
one case of serious exploitation to discredit the potential role of business
and undermine its potential contribution to refugee protection.
On the basis of what he plans to say during his presentation, which recommendation should
Toni make at the end of it?
Select one:
States should not be
considered solely responsible for protecting the human rights of refugees under
all circumstances.
States, and the
international community, should be the first to address refugee crises.
Private sector
corporations should be encouraged to lead efforts to address refugee crises.
Clear ethical rules and
principles should be in place to guide private sector engagement with refugee
assistance.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Submission
by the Mayor of Castell-Foy
“It is our assertion that
it is inappropriate to have unarmed police officers serving on the streets of
Castell-Foy and is contrary to our traditional policing expectations and
practices. It also puts unarmed officers at greater risk of harm than their
armed counterparts.
A review of data on
aggression towards police officers shows that, in the post-conflict turmoil,
police officers face on average 112 potentially violent interactions every
month. Typically, 38 of those result in actual violence. They, in turn, lead to
a minor injury to a police officer in 32 per cent of cases and more significant
harm in 4 per cent of cases.
Furthermore, these data
show that an unarmed officer will receive a minor injury in 41 per cent of
these cases and significant harm in 6 per cent. We deem it unacceptable to put
our unarmed officers at this kind of risk and conclude that the increase in the
chance of harm to an unarmed police officer is intolerable.”
Which one of the
following facts would strengthen the argument described in the
passage above?
Select one:
63 per cent of
potentially violent interactions involving unarmed police officers ended in
actual violence.
In Castell-Foy, unarmed
police officers are given more negotiation training than their armed colleagues.
13 per cent of the
incidents of significant harm inflicted on unarmed police officers lead to a
permanent disability.
Studies show that armed
officers feel more confident about dealing with potentially violent
interactions than their unarmed counterparts.
Read each passage and answer the question that follows.
Chief Inspector Tanaka is
planning police patrols in the region of Marisberg. Her unit has forty
officers, 20 of whom are female. To improve planning, she consults the
following analysis of data collected during previous patrols in the region.
Recent data gathered on
the policing operations in post-conflict operations in Marisberg suggest that
gender has an effect on responses from the local population. The presence of
female police officers generally reduces hostility towards police patrols. The
higher the proportion of females in the patrol, the more marked the effect. In
rural areas, older local males are less likely to co-operate with directions
given directly by a female or young male police officer than those given by an
older male colleague. This effect appears to be more extreme at night. Female
officers have been found to be far more effective when gathering evidence from
female witnesses.
Assuming that the results
of the analysis have been thoroughly replicated and are in fact true, which of
the following would be the most reasonable way for Chief
Inspector Tanaka to plan the police patrols?
Select one:
Ensure that all patrols
have a mix of male and female police officers.
Ensure that all patrols
have more male than female police officers.
Have all male patrols in
rural areas and at night but otherwise have mixed patrols.
Have some patrols that
are mixed gender and some that are entirely female.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Submission
by the Mayor of Castell-Foy
“It is our assertion that
it is inappropriate to have unarmed police officers serving on the streets of
Castell-Foy and is contrary to our traditional policing expectations and
practices. It also puts unarmed officers at greater risk of harm than their
armed counterparts.
A review of data on
aggression towards police officers shows that, in the post-conflict turmoil,
police officers face on average 112 potentially violent interactions every
month. Typically, 38 of those result in actual violence. They, in turn, lead to
a minor injury to a police officer in 32 per cent of cases and more significant
harm in 4 per cent of cases.
Furthermore, these data
show that an unarmed officer will receive a minor injury in 41 per cent of
these cases and significant harm in 6 per cent. We deem it unacceptable to put
our unarmed officers at this kind of risk and conclude that the increase in the
chance of harm to an unarmed police officer is intolerable.”
Which one of the
following facts would strengthen the argument described in the
passage above?
Select one:
63 per cent of
potentially violent interactions involving unarmed police officers ended in
actual violence.
In Castell-Foy, unarmed
police officers are given more negotiation training than their armed
colleagues.
13 per cent of the
incidents of significant harm inflicted on unarmed police officers lead to a
permanent disability.
Studies show that armed
officers feel more confident about dealing with potentially violent
interactions than their unarmed counterparts.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Su works as a corrections
officer in Parawe, a post-conflict country that is experiencing violence among
three major ethnic groups: Arnstown, Buletti and Cedars. At present, the level
of violence inflicted by prison officers against prisoners is a cause for
concern. There are four established prisons in Parawe. In prisons one, two and
three, it is reported that about 20 per cent of a random representative sample
of prisoners experience abuse. This figure is much higher in prison four,
reaching levels as high as 55 per cent. While the first three prisons have
prisoners and prison officers from the same ethnic group, prison four is a
mixed ethnic prison with at least 70 per cent of prisoners originating from the
Cedars region. Su concludes that the violence against prisoners by prison
officers in prison four had an ethnic basis, specifically targeting those from
the Cedars region.
Which of the following would best support Su’s conclusion?
Prison officers for
prison four were drawn ________________.
Select one:
from Buletti and Cedars
from Arnstown and Buletti
in equal parts from all
three regions
from Arnstown and Cedars
Which one of Kim’s conclusion is
correct given the data presented in the above table?
Select one:
The number of onsets of
violent events rose over the period considered.
From the 1960s onwards,
there was a steady increase in the number of onsets of violence in countries with
a previous conflict.
The proportion of
countries with “a previous conflict” rose over the period considered.
There were 33 instances
of onsets of violence in countries with no previous conflict during the 1990s.
Read the question below and select the best answer.
Toni is preparing a presentation that he is going to give to colleagues
entitled, The Future of Addressing Refugee Crises. At the end of his
presentation, Toni will make recommendations. Read what Toni is going to
say about the Roles of the State and of Private Enterprise and decide which
recommendation would be most consistent with what he says earlier.
Historically, the three
main durable solutions to a refugee crisis — resettlement, repatriation, and
local integration — have all been about reintegrating refugees into a
state. Increasingly, however, the private sector is playing a role.
Recently, the IKEA Foundation, for example, gave the largest private sector
grant in the history of the United Nations to UNHCR, donating €110
million. Other multinational corporations are also increasingly engaging
with the work of UNHCR. Private enterprise can mobilize resources almost
instantly compared with most state entities. However, it would only take
one case of serious exploitation to discredit the potential role of business
and undermine its potential contribution to refugee protection.
On the basis of what he plans to say during his presentation, which recommendation should
Toni make at the end of it?
Select one:
States should not be
considered solely responsible for protecting the human rights of refugees under
all circumstances.
States, and the
international community, should be the first to address refugee crises.
Private sector
corporations should be encouraged to lead efforts to address refugee crises.
Clear ethical rules and
principles should be in place to guide private sector engagement with refugee
assistance.
Ceren is working for a
peacekeeping mission that has experienced conflicts between different rebel
groups. The mission aims to serve as an impartial mediator of the conflict
through meetings. Today, Ceren has been informed that a group of five people,
Tumoka, Umar, Vassar, Jacob and Asoku, who are the key members of the two rebel
groups, the KiKi and the Mimi, will visit her to discuss their concerns. Ceren
needs to know which rebel group each visitor belongs to before the meeting;
however, she has only the following information:
Umar and Asoku belong to
different rebel groups.
Tumoka and Jacob belong
to the same rebel group.
Vassar and Umar don't
belong to the Kiki.
Accordingly, which of the
following would definitely be an incorrect assumption that Ceren
should avoid?
________ is a member of
the __________.
Select one:
Umar; Mimi
Jacob; Mimi
Asoku; KiKi
Vassar; Mimi
Read the question below and
select the best answer.
Konika’s manager has
asked him to assess whether there will be sufficient parliamentary support for
a proposed legislation for judicial reform. Konika knows that the four
political parties, the Blues, the Greens, the Reds and the Yellows, are waiting
for the results of a recent public opinion poll on the judiciary before
deciding how to vote. Konika has been asked to determine how many parties will
vote for the legislation if the poll results are negative.
He knows the following information:
The Yellows will vote against
the legislation if the poll results are negative. If the results are neutral or
positive, they will vote for it.
If the poll results are
positive, the Blues will abstain. Otherwise, they will vote against the
legislation.
The Reds will abstain if the
poll results are negative. Otherwise, they will vote for it.
The Greens will vote
against the legislation if the Yellows vote for it. Otherwise, they will vote
the same way as the Blues.
From the information that
Konika has, how many parties will vote for the legislation if the poll results
are negative?
Select one:
One
None
Two
Three
Read the question below and select the best answer.
An impeccable logic makes
arms embargoes a potentially powerful instrument in the array of United Nations
peace- and security-building mechanisms. By denying aggressors and human rights
abusers the implements of war and repression, arms embargoes contribute
directly to preventing and reducing the level of armed conflict. There could
hardly be a more appropriate tool for international peacemaking. Moreover, in
constricting the supply of only specific weapons and military-related goods and
services, and in denying them to ruling elites, their armies and other violent
combatants, arms embargoes constitute the best example of a smart sanction. Not
only do arms embargoes avoid doing harm to vulnerable and innocent civilian
populations, but the better the embargoes’ enforcement, the more innocent lives
are likely to be saved.
Which of the following is
an underlying assumption of the main argument?
Arms
embargoes_________________.
Select one:
can target rebel
movements fighting against a legitimate government.
require the successful
accumulation of appropriate information.
are the most beneficial
form of sanction if imposed properly.
are best applied against
governments posing a threat to civilian populations.
Read the question below and select the best answer.
Research into
post-conflict nations in 1980 concluded that nations were less likely to lapse
back into states of conflict if steady development aid were provided directly
to Governments, as opposed to direct intervention which aims to impose
solutions on local populations. As a result of this research, most donor nations
shifted their funding models from direct intervention to national-level
financial aid. In 2010, however, researchers found that post-conflict nations,
on average, were worse off than they had been before 1980 despite there having
been no increase in overall levels of reported government corruption.
Which of the following, if true, best resolves the contradiction in
the research finding in the above passage?
Select one:
On average, donor nations
tended to provide variable or sporadic development aid.
Government corruption
meant that only a portion of aid was ever used as intended.
There were more
post-conflict countries in 2010 than there were in 1980.
The post-conflict
development agenda had changed significantly by 2010.
Read the question below and select the best answer.
The Nuclear
Non-Proliferation Treaty allows the United States of America, the Russian
Federation, China, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and
France to have nuclear weapons if they commit themselves to eventually
disarming. Nuclear countries have, however, recently embarked on highly
ambitious and costly programmes, largely unexamined outside national security
circles, to renew the strategic and tactical weapons in their arsenals.
The race for ever-more nuclear weapons has become, instead, a race for
ever-better, ever-sleeker and ever-stealthier weapons. These
transformations and upgrades, designed to make weapons harder to shoot down and
more precise and reliable, using smaller yields that would create less
collateral damage and less radioactive fallout, will render them even more
perilous than ever.
Which of the following, if true, would strengthen the
assertion that nuclear weapons will become more perilous than ever?
Select one:
The world’s non-nuclear
countries will now have reason to pursue their own nuclear weapon programmes.
The spread of nuclear
weapons, if not stopped, will lead to political turmoil.
The use of nuclear bombs
will be seen as more reasonable in a limited or tactical conflict.
Tomorrow’s nuclear
arsenals will be managed in more unpredictable ways by unstable Governments.
Read each passage and
answer the question that follows.
Six candidates were
invited to an exam, followed by a group exercise and then a final interview.
Each candidate is represented by the following letters: A, B, C, D, E, and F.
Only one candidate will be selected for the position.
Candidates C and D were
eliminated at the conclusion of the exam, whereas Candidate A remained in the
competition.
Candidate E passed the
group exercise while Candidate B was eliminated.
Candidate F participated
in the group exercise.
According to the
information above, which of the following statements MUST be true?
Select one:
Two candidates were
eliminated after the group exercise.
Candidate B was the only
candidate to fail the group exercise.
Candidates E & F were
invited to the interview.
Four candidates
participated in the group exercise.
Read the question below and select the best answer.
Cheng is monitoring
Sohusira, a country that has recently emerged from a prolonged conflict during
which government forces fought the RFF, a rebel separatist group. There has
been a recent discovery of a single 15-ton weapon cache in the northern part of
Sohusira, which is controlled by the RRF, despite a signed ceasefire agreement.
The discovery has halted negotiations. The RRF maintains that the weapons do
not belong to them and accuse the Government of having planted them in order to
derail the peace process.
Cheng’s manager asks him,
based on reported information, to identify where the weapons were made,
who brought them in and how they were purchased. The following information
is available to Cheng:
1.The weapons discovered
were either Caarmine, or Schiene copies of Caarmine weapons, and entered the country
less than a month ago.
2.If the weapons were not
purchased in uncut diamonds, they were purchased in United States dollars.
3.The weapons entered the
country either at the Zanj or the Azania border crossing in a single truckload.
4.If the weapons entered
through the Zanj border crossing, they were either purchased in United States
dollars, or were Schiene-made, or both.
5.If the arms were
Caarmine-made, the RRF is responsible for the cache. If not, the Government
planted the cache.
6.INTERPOL reported that
the weapons smuggler responsible deposited $10 million in his bank account.
However, the arms were not purchased in cash.
7.The bridge at the
Azania border crossing has been under repair for three months and, while still
open for crossing, can handle only cargo loads of 12 tons or less.
The weapons were _______,
_________, and paid for in __________.
Select one:
Schiene-made; planted by
the Government; diamonds
Schiene-made; belonged to
the RRF; diamonds
Caarmine-made; belonged
to the RRF; United States dollars
Caarmine-made;
planted by the Government; United States dollars
Aruja works for a large international organisation and is
preparing a report regarding internal conflicts. She sees a report prepared by
an independent organisation which contains the data below. She would like to
include a conclusion in her report, using the data below.
Which conclusion should
Aruja include in her report?
Select one:
The number of internal
conflicts worldwide is increasing.
The average number of
deaths per internal conflict is increasing.
The more international
conflicts there are in any given year, the more deaths there are.
There is a correlation
between the number of conflicts and number of deaths.
Read the question below and select the best answer.
After the announcement of the Ruritania national election results, Eli’s
manager has asked him to evaluate the results and draw some conclusions
regarding the nature of the election.
Which of the following conclusions would be the most accurate given the
election data presented in the table?
Select one:
The candidate with the
majority of votes in district 1 would also most likely have the majority of
national votes.
Low voter turnout in
districts 2 and 3 had a significant impact on overall turnout.
The results of district 1
will have the most impact on the national election results.
Low voter turnout in
district 2 was most likely due to voter intimidation.
Read each passage and answer
the question that follows.
A polling station in
voting district Z of the province of Merveria has made an allegation that a
police unit intimidated voters on election day. There are three voting
districts (X, Y and Z) and five police units based in the province, identified
as units A, B, C, D and E.
Marcin is trying to
determine which police unit was in district Z on election day and has the
following information on police activities on that day:
There was only one police
unit in district X.
Three police units were
in district Y.
Unit D was the only
police unit in district X.
Units D and E were not in
the same district.
Units B and C were in a
different district from unit A.
Which three items of
information does Marcin need to confirm which police unit was in district Z?
Select one:
Items 1, 4 and 5
Items 1, 2 and 5
Items 2, 3 and 4
Items 2, 3 and 5
Read each passage and answer the question that follows.
Diana is working on a
report on the United Nations response to mass atrocities. She would like to
include a recommendation based on the following extract.
Human Rights Up Front Initiative
The Secretary-General’s
Human Rights Up Front initiative speaks to the essence of the United Nations.
It is a lens through which the Organization will re-examine how it responds to
threats of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian
law and thereby identify the actions needed to prevent the kinds of avoidable
mass atrocities that have occurred in the recent past. Its success depends on
leadership at every level: to show the courage to speak up for the values in
the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, to support staff demonstrating such courage, to encourage teamwork and
collaboration and to harness the diverse mandates of the United Nations system
with a view to the achievement of the United Nations system’s core purposes.
Based on this extract,
which of the following would be the most reasonable recommendation for
Diana to make in her report?
The United Nations
must_________________________.
Select one:
improve how its staff
respond to impending mass atrocities
increase funding for
humanitarian staff operating in fragile States
improve its ability to
manage the aftermath of mass atrocities
expand its capacity to
report human rights violations and atrocities
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Rossanna is working on a
report on water resources. She decides to summarize the following extract from
a report that she has read.
Water Scarcity
Politicians and the media
often debate short-term geopolitical issues that are not going to materialize,
while ignoring unfolding developments with long-term consequences. One of the
pressing issues often overlooked is water access and use. As water shortages
become more prevalent, compounded by the degradation of water quality, the
threat of conflict over fresh water increases. Local disputes about water use
can easily spill over into other dimensions. Global demand is already
outstripping water-renewable capacity, forcing communities to access previously
unexploited sources where water has slowly accumulated over thousands, maybe
even millions, of years. Of all the natural resources, water, and the scarcity
thereof, poses the biggest challenge because it is fundamental to human
survival.
Which of the following
statements best summarizes the extract above?
Select one:
Water access and use will
become drivers of violent international conflict.
Politicians and the media
tend to overemphasize immediate challenges.
The importance of water
is underappreciated as a geopolitical risk.
Politicians and the media
see water shortages as a serious global threat.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Bani was asked by his
manager to write a recommendation based on the following extract on field
missions.
Facilities & Services in Field Missions
The recent call made by
the Organization to move from positive-will to clear
action on improving gender diversity, which has received endorsement
at all levels, was made in full recognition of the importance of resolving
cross-cutting issues throughout the entire Organization. The growing global
competition for talented women has increased the pressure to align organization-wide
policies, such as greater efficiency and geographic diversity, with efforts to
develop more proactive talent retention strategies and practices. When it comes
to the start-up phase of field missions, the provision of adequate
“female-friendly” facilities and services needs to be the standard operating
procedure. The integration and engagement of the female workforce would greatly
improve if standards across missions were created, comprehensive reviews of the
physical environment conducted and clear timelines for addressing concerns
established.
Based on this extract,
which of the following would be the most reasonable recommendation for
Bani to include?
Missions should
_____________________.
Select one:
be provided with clear
guidelines on how to achieve gender balance
improve amenities to
better accommodate female staff
appoint a senior advisor
to monitor progress on gender issues
develop communications
strategies to retain female staff
Read each passage and answer the question that follows.
Henrietta is looking into
the impacts of conflict on development for a policy document that she is
working on. She would like to include a summary from this passage.
Conflict and Development
People in fragile and
conflict-affected States are more than twice as likely to be undernourished as
those in other developing countries, more than three times as likely to be
unable to send their children to school, twice as likely to see their children
die before age 5, and more than twice as likely to lack clean water. On
average, a country that experienced major violence over the period from 1981 to
2005 has a poverty rate 21 percentage points higher than a country that saw no
violence. A similar picture emerges for subnational areas affected by violence
in richer and more stable countries — areas where development lags behind.
Based on this extract,
which represents the best summary for Henrietta to include in
her policy document?
Violence and
conflict-affected populations ______________________.
Select one:
experience long-lasting
negative impacts
pay a heavy financial
opportunity cost
tend to be in developing
countries
suffer from a lack of
available resources
Read the question below and select the best answer.
Deployment of Standby Partners
The Secretariat is
developing a set of guidelines for standby partners supporting the United
Nations in humanitarian emergencies, and will invite NGOs, donors and
government agencies to establish strategic arrangements that would enable their
capabilities as standby partners to be quickly and effectively drawn on
under-defined conditions and during defined time periods. These standby
capabilities will become part of the Humanitarian Response Capability Readiness
System and are expected to provide additional capacity and expertise during the
early phase of emergency response. Potential arrangements for rapid and
time-bound redeployment of assets and capabilities from existing operations to
meet initial needs during crises will also be explored. While such arrangements
are not a substitute for properly resourced and structured deployments, they
could provide alternative means to respond to emergencies.
What conclusion can
be drawn from this passage? Choose the best answer below.
Standby partners
______________________.
Select one:
are part of a strategic
framework to reduce the need for regular deployments
provide short-term surge
capacity to humanitarian emergencies
are more specialized than
staff sent on regular, structured deployments
fulfil a political
imperative rather than a practical need
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Misha is looking into
reports related to transitions in peace operations. She would like to make a
recommendation based on the following extract.
Transitions of Peace Operations
Based on a report by the
High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations
United Nations (UN) peace
operations must, from the outset, work towards grounding peace in a way that
would render their support obsolete. It would benefit the peace process if
progress in relation to the package of measures agreed upon with the host government
were regularly reviewed, and the mandate and the UN’s support to developments
on the ground were adapted over time. This could include a limited set of
carefully selected benchmarks that focus on efforts that would most
successfully deepen, broaden and sustain peace. It is essential that ongoing
analysis and impact measurement be undertaken with national and UN partners so
that they may take on and advance work initially carried out by UN peace
operations.
Having read this extract,
which of the following would be the most reasonable recommendation for
Misha to make regarding transitional measures?
Select one:
Transitional policies and
processes of the UN should be driven by an external, neutral third party.
A continuous assessment
of local circumstances should inform the UN’s mandate during the peace process.
Mission transition
stakeholders should establish clear lines of reporting and accountability.
National and UN partners
should direct transitional measures from the outset.
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Vaisua is working on a
report on human trafficking. He decides to summarize the following
extract from a report that he has read.
Internal Displacement
The level of internal
displacement associated with conflict and disasters is rising every year. This
mainly affects low- and lower-middle income countries, where governments
struggle to cope with, respond to and recover sustainably from the impact of
internal displacement. Currently, internally displaced persons outnumber
refugees by two to one worldwide. Yet international policy tends to focus on
the needs of refugees and migrants, not those of internally displaced persons.
Some countries lose the attention of the international community, only to
re-emerge once new waves of internal displacement threaten stability. This
indicates that the underlying causes of conflict and displacement remain
unaddressed. Consequently, displacement will continue to take a heavy
toll on communities and national economies, unless the drivers of conflict,
poverty, environmental damage and State fragility are addressed.
Which of the
following best summarizes the extract above?
Internal displacement is
both _______ and ______.
Select one:
recurrent; damaging
growing; misinterpreted
unresolved; contested
consistent; unmanageable
Read each passage and answer the question that follows.
Diana is working on a
report on the United Nations response to mass atrocities. She would like to
include a recommendation based on the following extract.
Human Rights Up Front Initiative
The Secretary-General’s
Human Rights Up Front initiative speaks to the essence of the United Nations.
It is a lens through which the Organization will re-examine how it responds to
threats of serious violations of international human rights and humanitarian
law and thereby identify the actions needed to prevent the kinds of avoidable
mass atrocities that have occurred in the recent past. Its success depends on
leadership at every level: to show the courage to speak up for the values in
the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human
Rights, to support staff demonstrating such courage, to encourage teamwork and
collaboration and to harness the diverse mandates of the United Nations system
with a view to the achievement of the United Nations system’s core purposes.
Based on this extract,
which of the following would be the most reasonable recommendation for
Diana to make in her report?
The United Nations
must_________________________.
Select one:
improve how its staff
respond to impending mass atrocities
increase funding for
humanitarian staff operating in fragile States
improve its ability to
manage the aftermath of mass atrocities
expand its capacity to
report human rights violations and atrocities
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Vaisua is working on a
report on human trafficking. He decides to summarize the following
extract from a report that he has read.
Internal Displacement
The level of internal
displacement associated with conflict and disasters is rising every year. This
mainly affects low- and lower-middle income countries, where governments
struggle to cope with, respond to and recover sustainably from the impact of
internal displacement. Currently, internally displaced persons outnumber
refugees by two to one worldwide. Yet international policy tends to focus on
the needs of refugees and migrants, not those of internally displaced persons.
Some countries lose the attention of the international community, only to re-emerge
once new waves of internal displacement threaten stability. This indicates that
the underlying causes of conflict and displacement remain unaddressed.
Consequently, displacement will continue to take a heavy toll on communities
and national economies, unless the drivers of conflict, poverty, environmental
damage and State fragility are addressed.
Which of the
following best summarizes the extract above?
Internal displacement is
both _______ and ______.
Select one:
recurrent; damaging
growing; misinterpreted
unresolved; contested
consistent; unmanageable
Read the passage below and select the best answer.
Hiring of a New Liaison Officer
Bharat was not greatly
welcomed when he started his post as the new Liaison Officer. He lacked his predecessor’s
charm and easy manner and local partner organizations demonstrated some initial
hostility toward him, even going so far as to ask for his removal within a week
of his arrival on post. Many recall that his predecessor considered many of the
local partners as friends and regularly socialized with them outside of work.
Their hostility was soon overcome as it became clear that Bharat was
knowledgeable and a person of high integrity. Within weeks, partner
organizations were bringing issues to him that they had been reluctant to
address with his predecessor for fear of creating conflict.
What conclusion can be drawn from this passage? Choose
the best answer below.
Select one:
Partner organizations
should advise on hiring decisions when partnerships are at risk.
Liaison Officers should
avoid personal relationships with local partners.
Trustworthy and credible
Liaison Officers produce productive partnerships.
Being friendly and
agreeable is the most important quality for a Liaison Officer.
Read the question below and select the best answer.
Deployment of Standby Partners
The Secretariat is
developing a set of guidelines for standby partners supporting the United
Nations in humanitarian emergencies, and will invite NGOs, donors and
government agencies to establish strategic arrangements that would enable their
capabilities as standby partners to be quickly and effectively drawn on
under-defined conditions and during defined time periods. These standby
capabilities will become part of the Humanitarian Response Capability Readiness
System and are expected to provide additional capacity and expertise during the
early phase of emergency response. Potential arrangements for rapid and
time-bound redeployment of assets and capabilities from existing operations to
meet initial needs during crises will also be explored. While such arrangements
are not a substitute for properly resourced and structured deployments, they
could provide alternative means to respond to emergencies.
What conclusion can
be drawn from this passage? Choose the best answer below.
Standby partners
______________________.
Select one:
are part of a strategic
framework to reduce the need for regular deployments
provide short-term surge
capacity to humanitarian emergencies
are more specialized than
staff sent on regular, structured deployments
fulfil a political
imperative rather than a practical need
Read the following paragraph and answer the question.
Patrick is seeking to
summarize notes from interviews conducted with a number of experienced field
officers. He has been given the following passage.
Adjusting to Work in the Field
The experience of many
officers working in the field for the first time is the frustration of the
different pace at which things move compared to head offices, and the different
approaches necessary to achieve results. Without an understanding of the
expectations and values of local workers, organizations, and particularly
governmental organizations, delays can appear to be deliberate or even
malicious. The high motivation of the new officer and the urgency of the task
are thrown into stark contrast with the linear nature of many processes – this
cannot be done until that is complete, and that cannot be completed until the
other has been approved. Even the acquisition of the basic materials required
to get things done can provoke delays. Knowing the right people and getting the
right advice can speed things up by a small amount, but are of greater value
for the insights they provide about a particular community or culture. Yet
these insights can also provide a fresh source of frustration.
Which option represents
the best summary of this passage for Patrick to use?
Select one:
Unfamiliar and
bureaucratic processes can be challenging for new field officers.
Work in the field is
often deliberately obstructed by local partners, regardless of the importance
of a goal.
The best way to achieve
goals in the field is to get to know others who are familiar with the issues
and enlist their support.
Facilities are more basic
in the field than in head offices which can lead to delays.