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The withdrawal or drawdown of a UN Peacekeeping Operation represents a critical transition for a host country. It signals progress towards peace and new opportunities for development., But it also presents risks that need to…

UN Peacekeeping works closely with UN Member States and other partners to ensure its police and troops are trained and equipped to advance peace in some of the world’s most challenging environments. Military and police…

Peacekeeping Ministerial meetings bring UN Member States together to ensure peacekeeping missions are equipped to succeed. Since 1948, more than two million peacekeepers have served in 71 missions around the world, working to…

Rule of law is at the heart of peace and security and longer-term development. Strengthening the rule of law and essential criminal justice services is one of the critical tasks of UN Peacekeeping to prevent conflict and lay…

UN Peacekeeping’s strength is in advancing and supporting nationally-owned political solutions and processes that promote stability and peace in the long term. Peacekeeping operations mediate and facilitate peace agreements…

Civilians have increasingly become the victims of armed conflict. In response, the Security Council has made protecting civilians a focus of modern peacekeeping. During the mid-1990s, peacekeepers found themselves deployed in…

UN peacekeeping operations are deployed with the consent of the main parties to the conflict.

Since 1948, the UN has helped end conflicts and foster reconciliation by conducting successful peacekeeping operations...