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Beyond the ‘New Horizon’
Proceedings from the UN Peacekeeping Future Challenges Seminar Geneva, 23–24 June 2010
NUPI-rapport | Oslo, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs | 108 sider
The Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy (GCSP), in partnership with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, organized the ‘UN Peacekeeping Future Challenges Seminar’ in Geneva in June 2010. The objective was to facilitate a dialogue among the research and policy community, and to stimulate frank discussion on the range of factors most likely to influence and direct peacekeeping developments over the next few years. This report is an edited volume of the contributions prepared for the seminar.
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With over 120,000 deployed personnel across 16 missions, and at a cost of approximately USD 8 billion per year, the scale of UN peacekeeping in 2010 is unprecedented. In July 2009, the UN secretariat released the non-paper ‘A New Partnership Agenda: Charting a New Horizon for UN Peacekeeping.’ Since then, a dialogue has taken place between the Secretariat, the member states and regional partners, that has helped identify a set of common priorities to strengthen peacekeeping. However, several important issues of contemporary peacekeeping practices were not explored in depth in the context of the ‘New Horizon’ non-paper. Others have emerged subsequently.
It is with such issues in mind that the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs and the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, in partnership with the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations, organized the ‘UN Peacekeeping Future Challenges Seminar’ in Geneva in June 2010. The objective was to facilitate a dialogue among the research and policy community, and to stimulate frank discussion on the range of factorsn most likely to influence and direct peacekeeping developments over the next few years.
This report is an edited volume of the contributions prepared for the seminar and covers the following topics:
- Managing consent by host governments and parties to a conflict
- Increasing the quantity and quality of civilian and military personnel available for UN peacekeeping missions
- The role of host population perceptions of and expectations from UN peacekeeping
- The challenges of conceptualizing and operationalizing doctrinal approaches such as ‘robust peacekeeping’ and ‘protection of civilians’
- Future options for partnership and support between the UN and the AU
- The role of China in UN peacekeeping
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