Emmanuel Erskine

Lieutenant General Emmanuel Alexander Erskine is a high military retired in Ghana, which has played a significant role in various UN operations in Ghana. Since May 2002 he has been a member of the National Reconciliation Commission, which has submitted a multi-volume report on the human rights situations in the country since independence in October 2004.

Military training

Erskine was trained at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst, UK in telecommunications. He remained in the Staff College in Camberley to 1968 and was formed between 1968 to 1972 at the Royal College of Defence Studies.

Military career

Erskine was as Director General in the Ministry of Defense is responsible for operations and planning between 1971 and 1972. Between 1973 and 1974 he was commander of the Ghanaian Army and Commanding Officer of the Ghana Telecommunications Regiment. In the Ministry of Defence, he was director of communications.

In particular, as Chief of Staff of UNTSO Erskine has worked in Israel and was even called for the second time in the office. Erskine was the first commander of the UNIFIL force in Lebanon.

In addition to his many years of peace missions Erskine has acted as advisor to the former OAU ​​and is now advisor to the ECOWAS.

On 7 September 2001 Erskine has in the center for peace-keeping missions in Africa ( Center for Peace Missions in Africa), which he is chairman, opened the library named after him. She bares the name The General Emmanuel Erskine Research and Documentation Centre for Peace and Security ( GERDC ).

Politicians Erskine

Erskine is the Chairman of the People's Heritage Party (PHP) in Ghana and has also participated in the presidential elections in Ghana in 1992 as such. He was here one of several candidates and entered among other things, against the eventual President Rawlings. Erskine reached 1.7 percent of the vote and defeated the other candidates significantly.

Positions

  • Commissioner - National Reconciliation Commission (Ghana ) ( May 2002 -)
  • Chiefs of Staff, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization - United Nations Truce Supervision Organization ( UNTSO ) (1981 - 1986)
  • Force Commander - United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL ) (1978 - 1981)
  • Chiefs of Staff, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization - United Nations Truce Supervision Organization ( UNTSO ) (1976 - 1978)
  • Deputy Commander ( Deputy Force Commander) - United Nations Emergency Force Two ( UNEF 2) (1974 - 1976)

Publications

  • Peacekeeping Techniques for Africa 's Conflict Management (Academic Literature, Afram Publications, 2000), ISBN 9964-702-09-4
  • Guidelines on Disarmament, Demobilisation and Reintegration of Ex- Combatants in a Peacekeeping Environment ( UN Training Unit of UN Peacekeeping Operations, 1999)
  • Mission with UNIFIL: An African Soldier's Reflections ( Historical non-fiction, Christopher Hurst, 1989)
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