ClearTips: Powerful paragraphs

Summing up: Propose a challenge or future direction

Put your purpose into words by giving readers something concrete to do after reading your report.

But the aim should be for the UN, through the Security Council, to decide where a UN-sponsored force should be deployed and have the capacity to man it, not to subcontract the job and the decision-making to individual members. Turning the UN into cheerleader, or belated picker-up of superpowers' problems, is not the way to improve peacekeeping. The UN's authority needs to be strengthened, not sidestepped.

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