United Nations Peacekeeping

Peacekeeping operations

• What is peacekeeping?
  • Peace and Security
  • Principles of peacekeeping
  • Success in peacekeeping
  • Mandates and the legal basis for peacekeeping
  • Role of the Security Council
  • Role of the General Assembly
  • Partnerships
  • History of peacekeeping
    • The early years
    • Post Cold-War surge
    • The present
  • Reform of peacekeeping
    • New Horizon
  • Peacekeepers Day
  • UN Medals
  • Dag Hammarskjöld and UN Peacekeeping
• Current operations
  • Syria
• Past operations
• Forming a new operation
• Financing peacekeeping

Current peacekeeping operations

There are currently 17 UN peace operations deployed on four continents.

 

These include 16 peacekeeping operations, and one special political mission in Afghanistan. These are all led by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO).

Africa

• United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS)
• United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA)
• UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO)
• African Union-UN Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNAMID)
• UN Operation in Côte d'Ivoire (UNOCI)
• UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL)
• UN Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)

Americas

• UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH)

Asia and the Pacific

• UN Integrated Mission in Timor-Leste (UNMIT)
• UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
• UN Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) *

Europe

• UN Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)
• UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)

Middle East

• UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS)
• UN Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)
• United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)
• UN Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO)

* Please note UNAMA is a special political mission, directed by DPKO.