midnight rider updates at bottom
UPDATES AT BOTTOM OF POST
PASTORIUS NOTE --- DEBUNK THE FOLLOWING, PLEASE!
MAKE IT STOP!
The United Nations accepting applications forProfessional Gun Grabbers for multiple missions in New York.
The Title Of The Positions They Are Looking To Fill IsDisarmament, Demobilization, And Reintegration Officers.
The Required Work Experience Includes “Small Arms Control”And “Conflict/Post-Conflict Crisis Management.”
ONLY ENGLISH LANGUAGE FLUENCY IS REQUIRED FOR THESEPOSITIONS.
UN Caught Posting New York "DDR" Jobs for DISARMAMENT!
THIS IS A REAL JOB ANNOUNCEMENT
IT IS NOT A HOAX
US CITIZENSHIP IS NOT A JOB REQUIREMENT FOR THIS POSITION.
COULD THIS POSSIBLY BE TRUE?
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UPDATE -
Ok, already I see that
there was a job like this listed back in 2012.
And that job listing/opening has since expired.
It seems to be true that, if you click around on the UN Jobs List website, that they do, indeed, post jobs with a note as to where the deployment will be.
For instance,
click here and you'll see you can go to the Congo and serve as a "Technical Officer" dealing with Pandemics and Influenza.
But the fact that this "DDR" job was listed two years ago, and nothing has come of it makes it seem to me to probably be something innocuous.
Anyway, like I said, I'm looking for the seemingly inevitable debunking. I think this HAS to be bullshit.
Someone, please, offer me an explanation.
midnight rider updates:
This
appears very much to be aimed at restoring/keeping the peace in conflict areas after the conflict. Collect the weapons from the good and bad guys. Tell them they were good and bad guys. Get 'em jobs. Turn their swords and Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers into ploughshares. That sort of thing.
Keep in mind the U.N. is a global entity (for better or worse). Just because they're headquartered in New York (THROW THEM OUT!) does not necessarily mean we're their main focus of every seemingly freedom abridging action.
Besides, if they were to try to disarm Americans I am rather certain they would create a conflict zone (and a helluva one at that) when we turned our guns on those trying to disarm us.
From the
Untied Nations DDR section:
Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration
Disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) has become an integral part of post-conflict peace consolidation, featuring prominently in the mandates of peacekeeping operations over the last twenty years.
UN Photo/Martine Perret
UN Police officers completing a successful weapons recovery operation.
DDR activities are crucial components of both the initial stabilization of warn-torn societies as well as their long-term development.
DDR must be integrated into the entire peace process from the peace negotiations through peacekeeping and follow-on peacebuilding activities in Timor-Leste.
Disarmament is the collection, documentation, control and disposal of small arms, ammunition, explosives and light and heavy weapons from combatants and often from the civilian population.
Demobilization is the formal and controlled discharge of active combatants from armed forces and groups, including a phase of “reinsertion” which provides short-term assistance to ex-combatants.
Reintegration is the process by which ex-combatants acquire civilian status and gain sustainable employment and income. It is a political, social and economic process with an open time-frame, primarily taking place in communities at the local level.
The objective of the
DDR process is to contribute to security and stability in post-conflict environments so that recovery and development can begin.
DDR helps create an enabling environment for political and peace processes by dealing with security problem that arises when ex-combatants are trying to adjust to normal life, during the vital transition period from conflict to peace and development.
DDR supports ex-combatants to become active participants in the peace process through:
- removing weapons from the hands of combatants;
- taking the combatants out of military structures;
- integrating combatants socially and economically into society.
Where do we do it?
We support
DDR processes through several of our missions:
We are at the planning stages for both Darfur/Sudan -
African Union-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) and Somalia -
UN Political Office for Somalia (UNPOS)*.
We also provide operational advice and support to:
* Special Political Missions led by the UN Department of Political Affairs.
