As in Bosnia, such monitors (or "peacekeepers") tend to become shields protecting the aggressors from retaliation rather than instruments for assuring the safety of the targets of such aggression.
We are especially mindful of the social and other costs that this process implies and, as a result, an important focus of our programs and those of the World Bank has been on using fiscal and other instruments to bolster social safety nets.
And refusing to grant a new trial after the doctor in charge of the colonoscopy clinic was indicted, less than a month after the verdict, for endangering the safety of patients by ordering employees to use unclean instruments that could transmit Hep C.
In fact, any asset class with risk directly tied to developed economies has generally been forgotten in favor of hard assets or fixed income instruments with negative real rates but an abundance of safety.
The iShares Barclays 3-5Yr Treasury Bond (IEI) ETF is up 1.48% since Aug. 8 as investors piled into the ETF for safety, driving up the price of the equity but definitely not driving up the yield of the underlying instruments.