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When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He's sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town's complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming, American-educated judge.

This podcast series explores the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the work of our peacekeeping missions. Throughout the pandemic, UN peacekeepers have continued to carry out their work in challenging circumstances, while also supporting local communities and their fellow team members. In this series, you’ll hear directly from UN leadership about their experiences during these unprecedented times, and on actions taken by missions to adapt, deliver and keep themselves and the people they serve safe, during this global health crisis.

The year was 2000. Sierra Leone, in West Africa, had been ravaged by years of civil strife. With the intervention of the United Nations, two companies of the Indian Army were deployed in Kailahun as part of a United Nations peacekeeping mission. Soon, the peaceful mission turned into a war-like standoff between Major Punia's company and the Revolutionary United Front (RUF) rebels in Kailahun, with the Indian peacekeepers cordoned off for seventy-five days without supplies. The only way home was by laying down their weapons.