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- Title
UN Peacekeeping: Pertinent Today, Reforming for Tomorrow.
- Authors
LACROIX, JEAN-PIERRE
- Abstract
Since its first mission in 1948, United Nations peacekeeping has helped many countries navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace and development. Today, UN peacekeeping remains the embodiment of multilateralism in action, and peacekeepers continue to fulfill a wide range of functions required by the varied contexts in which they deploy. However, UN peacekeepers now confront increasingly complex challenges. Global tensions and divides limit the progress of peace processes on the ground. A rapidly evolving conflict landscape features a proliferation of new actors, including non-state armed groups and international organized crime, and is therefore becoming more dangerous. Peacekeepers are being targeted, not only through physical acts of violence, but also through misinformation and disinformation, which fuels conflict, distorts public perceptions of the role and mandate of peacekeepers, and impedes missions from carrying out their mandates. Yet in the face of these challenges, peacekeepers continue their work with determination to save lives, prevent conflict, and promote lasting political solutions. As the UN continues to adapt to these and other challenges, efforts are being made across many domains to enhance UN peacekeeping, including improving political strategies and capabilities, strengthening integration--both internally among civilian, police and military components and with UN and other partners--enhancing performance and accountability, strengthening strategic communications, reinforcing cooperation with host states, advancing the Women, Peace, and Security (WPS) agenda, and driving digital innovation at the service of peacekeeping. #e continued relevance and success of UN peacekeeping will only be achieved with the dedicated commitment and efforts of all partners to the pursuit of global peace and security.
- Subjects
UNITED Nations; UNITED Nations peacekeeping forces; PEACE negotiations; PUBLIC opinion; ORGANIZED crime; POLICE-community relations; STRATEGIC communication; INTERNATIONAL crimes; COOPERATION
- Publication
Fletcher Forum of World Affairs, 2022, Vol 46, Issue 2, p131
- ISSN
1046-1868
- Publication type
Article