Peacekeeping Operations

        A peacekeeping is one of the most effective tools of the UN for the assistant at host countries to navigate the difficult path from a conflict to peace. Peacekeeping has unique strengths, including legitimacy, burden sharing, and an ability to deploy and sustain troops and police from around the globe, integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to advance multidimensional mandates. UN Peacekeepers provide security and the political and peace building support to help countries make the difficult, early transition from conflict to peace.

UN Peacekeeping is guided by three basic principles:

• Consent of the parties;
  
  
• Impartiality;
  
  
• Non-use of force except in self-defence and defence of the mandate.
  
  

Peacekeeping is flexible and over the past two decades has been deployed in many configurations. There are currently 15 UN peace operations deployed on four continents and one special political mission – the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) – led by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations.

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Peacekeeping Operations

• MINUSTAH (Haiti)
  
  
• MINURSO (Western Sahara)
  
  
• UNMIL (Liberia)
  
  
• UNOCI (Côte d’lvoire)
  
  
• Minusma (Mali)
  
  
• MONUSCO (Democratic Republic of Congo)
  
  
• UNMIK (Kosovo)
  
  
• UNAMID (Darfur)
  

• UNFICYP (Cyprus)
  
  
• UNISFA (Sudan)
  
  
• UNTSO (Middles East)
  
  
• UNMISS (Sudan)
  
  
• UNIFIL (Lebanon)
  
  
• UNDOF (SYRIA)
  
  
• UNAMA (AFGANISTAN) 
  
  
• UNMOGIP (India and Pakistan)
  

         Success is never guaranteed, because UN Peacekeeping almost by definition goes to the most physically and politically difficult environments. However, UN has built up a demonstrable record of success over our 60 years of existence, including winning the Nobel Peace Prize.

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