United Nations peacekeeping#Financing

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Once a peace treaty has been negotiated, the parties involved might ask the United Nations for a peacekeeping force to supervise various elements of the agreed upon plan. This is often done because a group controlled by the United Nations is less likely to favor the interests of any one party since it itself is controlled by many groups, namely the 15-member Security Council and the intentionally diverse United Nations Secretariat.

If the Security Council approves the creation of a mission, then the Department of Peacekeeping Operations begins planning for the necessary elements. At this time, the senior command team is selected.{{cite journal |last1= Oksamytna |first1= Kseniya|last2= Bove |first2= Vincenzo|last3= Lundgren |first3= Magnus|date= 2021 |title=Leadership selection in United Nations peacekeeping |journal= International Studies Quarterly|volume= 65|pages= 16–28|doi= 10.1093/isq/sqaa023 |doi-access= free }} The department will then seek contributions from member nations. Since the UN has no standing force or supplies, it must form ad hoc coalitions for every task undertaken. Doing so results in both the possibility of failure to form a suitable force, and a general slowdown in procurement once the operation is in the field. Roméo Dallaire, force commander in Rwanda during the Rwandan genocide there, described the problems this poses by comparison to more traditional military deployments:

{{blockquote|He told me the UN was a "pull" system, not a "push" system like I had been used to with NATO, because the UN had absolutely no pool of resources to draw on. You had to make a request for everything you needed, and then you had to wait while that request was analyzed... For instance, soldiers everywhere have to eat and drink. In a push system, food and water for the number of soldiers deployed is automatically supplied. In a pull system, you have to ask for those rations, and no common sense seems to ever apply.|(Shake Hands With the Devil, Dallaire, pp. 99–100)}}

It has been shown that contributors deploy their troops with varying speed.{{cite journal |last1= Lundgren |first1= Magnus|last2= Oksamytna |first2= Kseniya|last3= Katharina |first3= Coleman|date= 2021 |title=Only as fast as its troop contributors: Incentives, capabilities, and constraints in the UN's peacekeeping response |journal= Journal of Peace Research|volume= 58|issue= 4|pages= 671–686|doi= 10.1177/0022343320940763 |doi-access= free }} While the peacekeeping force is being assembled, a variety of diplomatic activities are being undertaken by UN staff. The exact size and strength of the force must be agreed to by the government of the nation whose territory the conflict is on. The Rules of Engagement must be developed and approved by both the parties involved and the Security Council. These give the specific mandate and scope of the mission (e.g. when may the peacekeepers, if armed, use force, and where may they go within the host nation). Often, it will be mandated that peacekeepers have host government minders with them whenever they leave their base. This complexity has caused problems in the field. When all agreements have been completed, the required personnel are assembled, and final approval has been given by the Security Council, the peacekeepers are deployed to the region in question.

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The financial resources of UN Peacekeeping operations are the collective responsibility of UN Member States. Decisions about the establishment, maintenance or expansion of peacekeeping operations are taken by the Security Council. According to UN Charter every Member State is obligated legally to pay their respective share for peacekeeping. Peacekeeping expenses are divided by the General Assembly based upon a formula established by Member States which takes into account the relative economic wealth of Member States among other factors.{{Cite web |title=How we are funded. United Nations Peacekeeping |url=https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/how-we-are-funded |access-date=2023-11-25 |website=peacekeeping.un.org |language=en}} In 2017, the UN agreed to reduce the peacekeeping budget by $600 million after the US initially proposed a larger decrease of approximately $900 million.{{-}}

The General Assembly approves resource expenditures for peacekeeping operations on a yearly basis. Financing covers the period from 1 July to 30 June of the next year.

{{See also|United Nations Department of Peace Operations|United Nations Military Observer|United Nations Police}}

A United Nations peacekeeping mission has three power centers. The first is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General, the official leader of the mission. This person is responsible for all political and diplomatic activity, overseeing relations with both the parties to the peace treaty and the UN member-states in general. They are often a senior member of the Secretariat. The second is the Force Commander, who is responsible for the military forces deployed. They are a senior officer of their nation's armed services, and are often from the nation committing the highest number of troops to the project. Finally, the Chief Administrative Officer oversees supplies and logistics, and coordinates the procurement of any supplies needed.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}

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In 2007, a peacekeeper volunteer was required to be older than age 25 with no maximum age limit.{{Cite web|url=http://hrlibrary.umn.edu/UNDPKO.html|title=University of Minnesota Human Rights Library|website=hrlibrary.umn.edu}} Peacekeeping forces are contributed by member states on a voluntary basis. {{As of|2019|6|30|df=}}, there are 100,411 people serving in UN peacekeeping operations (86,145 uniformed, 12,932 civilian, and 1,334 volunteers).{{cite web|url=https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/data|title=DATA {{!}} United Nations Peacekeeping|date=30 June 2019|publisher=United Nations|access-date=30 July 2019}} European nations contribute nearly 6,000 people to this total. Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh are among the largest individual contributors with about 8,000 people each. African nations contributed nearly half the total, almost 44,000 people.{{cite web|title=United Nations troop and police contributors archive (1990–2013)|url=https://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/resources/statistics/contributors_archive.shtml|access-date=11 October 2014}} Every peacekeeping mission is authorized by the Security Council.

{{Main|History of United Nations peacekeeping}}

===Cold War peacekeeping===

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United Nations peacekeeping was initially developed during the Cold War as a means of resolving conflicts between states by deploying unarmed or lightly armed military personnel from a number of countries, commanded by the UN, to areas where warring parties were in need of a neutral party to observe the peace process. Peacekeepers could be activated when the major international powers (the five permanent members of the Security Council) tasked the UN with helping to end conflicts threatening regional stability and international peace and security. These included a number of so-called "proxy wars" waged by client states of the superpowers. As of December 2019, there have been 72 UN peacekeeping operations since 1948, with seventeen operations ongoing. Suggestions for new missions are made every year.

The first peacekeeping mission was initiated in 1948. This mission, the United Nations Truce Supervision Organization (UNTSO), was sent to the newly created State of Israel, where a conflict between the Israelis and the Arab states concerning the creation of Israel had just reached a ceasefire. The UNTSO remains in operation to this day, although the Israeli–Palestinian conflict has persisted. Almost a year later, the United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) was authorized to monitor relations between the two nations, which were divided from each other after the United Kingdom's decolonization of the Indian subcontinent.

As the Korean War ended with the Korean Armistice Agreement in 1953,{{Cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/10165796|title=The Korean War armistice|date=2015-03-05|newspaper=BBC News|access-date=2017-02-09|language=en-GB}} UN forces remained along the south side of demilitarized zone until 1967, when American and South Korean forces took over.{{Cite web |title= History > Post-1953: Evolution of UNC |url=https://www.unc.mil/History/Post-1953-Evolution-of-UNC/ |access-date=2023-11-08 |website=United Nations Command }}

Returning its attention to the conflict between Israel and its Arab neighbors, the United Nations responded to Suez Crisis of 1956, a war between the alliance of the United Kingdom, France, and Israel, versus Egypt, which was supported by other Arab nations. When a ceasefire was declared in 1957, Canadian Secretary of State for External Affairs{{Cite web|url=http://www.international.gc.ca/about-a_propos/pearson_nobel.aspx?lang=eng&view=d|title=Lester B. Pearson: 1957 Nobel Peace Prize Recipient |date=2012-10-18 |website=Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130115092632/http://www.international.gc.ca/about-a_propos/pearson_nobel.aspx?lang=eng&view=d |archive-date= 15 January 2013 }} (and future Prime Minister) Lester Bowles Pearson suggested that the United Nations station a peacekeeping force in the Suez in order to ensure that the ceasefire was honored by both sides. Pearson had initially suggested that the force consist of mainly Canadian peacekeepers, but the Egyptians were suspicious of having a Commonwealth nation defend them against the United Kingdom and its allies. In the end, a wide variety of national forces were drawn upon to ensure national diversity. Pearson would win the Nobel Peace Prize for this work.{{citation needed|date= October 2016}}

In 1988, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations peacekeeping forces. The press release stated that the forces "represent the manifest will of the community of nations" and have "made a decisive contribution" to the resolution of conflict around the world.

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The end of the Cold War precipitated a dramatic shift in UN and multilateral peacekeeping. In a new spirit of cooperation, the Security Council established larger and more complex UN peacekeeping missions, often to help implement comprehensive peace agreements between belligerents in intra-State conflicts and civil wars. Furthermore, peacekeeping came to involve more and more non-military elements that ensured the proper functioning of civic functions, such as elections. The UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations was created in 1992 to assist this increased demand for such missions.

By and large, the new operations were successful. In El Salvador and Mozambique, for example, peacekeeping provided ways to achieve self-sustaining peace. Some efforts failed, perhaps as the result of an overly optimistic assessment of what UN peacekeeping could accomplish. While complex missions in Cambodia and Mozambique were ongoing, the Security Council dispatched peacekeepers to conflict zones like Somalia, where neither ceasefires nor the consent of all the parties in conflict had been secured. These operations did not have the manpower, nor were they supported by the required political will, to implement their mandates. The failures—most notably the 1994 Rwandan genocide and the 1995 massacre in Srebrenica and Bosnia and Herzegovina—resulted in a period of retrenchment and self-examination in UN peacekeeping. As a result, the relatively small United Nations Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium (UNTAES) transitional administration in Eastern Slavonia received a high degree of commitment and became a "proving ground for ideas, methods, and procedures".{{cite journal|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/27800508 |title=The Political Challenges of Administering Eastern Slavonia |journal=Global Governance |volume=10 |issue=1 |author=D. Boothby |format= |pages=37–51 |date=2004 |doi=10.1163/19426720-01001005 |jstor=27800508 |access-date=17 April 2021|url-access=subscription }} It turned out to be considered the most successful UN mission, and was followed by other more ambitious transitional administrations in Kosovo (United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo, or UNMIK) and East Timor (United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor, or UNTAET).

That period resulted, in part, in the United Nations Peacebuilding Commission, which works to implement stable peace through some of the same civic functions that peacekeepers also work on, such as elections. The commission currently works with six countries, all in Africa.{{Cite web|url=http://pulitzercenter.org/projects/africa/beyond-peace-deals-united-nations-experiment-peacebuilding|title=Beyond Peace Deals: The United Nations Experiment in 'Peacebuilding' |date=June 22, 2010|website=Pulitzer Center}}

The UN Peacekeeping's commitment to protecting cultural heritage dates back to 2012, when there was extensive destruction in Mali. In this matter, the protection of a country's cultural heritage was included in the mandate of a United Nations mission (Resolution 2100) for the first time in history. In addition to many other advances, Italy signed an agreement with UNESCO in February 2016 to create the world's first emergency task force for culture, composed of civilian experts and the Italian Carabinieri. The UN peace mission UNIFIL (together with Blue Shield International) in 2019 sought to protect the UNESCO World Heritage in Lebanon.{{refn|{{Cite web|date=2019-09-27|title='Blue Helmet Forum' an der Landesverteidigungsakademie: 'Protection of Cultural Heritage in Peace Operations'|url=http://www.bundesheer.at/cms/artikel.php?ID=10118|access-date=2022-07-28|website=bundesheer.at|publisher=BMLVS-Abteilung Kommunikation-Referat 3|language=de}}{{Cite web |date=2017-10-17|title=A historic resolution to protect cultural heritage|url=https://en.unesco.org/courier/2017nian-di-3qi/historic-resolution-protect-cultural-heritage|access-date=2022-07-28|website=UNESCO|language=en}}{{Cite web|title=Action plan to preserve heritage sites during conflict|url=https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/action-plan-to-preserve-heritage-sites-during-conflict|access-date=2022-07-28|website=United Nations Peacekeeping|language=en}}{{cite web|title=Austrian Armed Forces Mission in Lebanon|date=28 April 2019 |url=https://www.krone.at/1911689|language=de}}UNESCO Director-General calls for stronger cooperation for heritage protection at the Blue Shield International General Assembly. UNESCO, 13 September 2017.{{Cite web|title=Beirut Heritage Protection |url=https://www.unmultimedia.org/tv/unifeed/asset/2577/2577900|access-date=2022-07-28|website=United Nations UN Audiovisual Library|language=en}}}}

{{See also|Women in peacekeeping}}

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The UN Charter stipulates that to assist in maintaining peace and security around the world, all member states of the UN should make available to the Security Council necessary armed forces and facilities. Since 1948, almost 130 nations have contributed military and civilian police personnel to peace operations. While detailed records of all personnel who have served in peacekeeping missions since 1948 are not available, it is estimated that as many as one million soldiers, police officers and civilians have served as UN peacekeepers during the last 56 years.

As of June 2022, 120 countries were contributing a total of 74,892 personnel in Peacekeeping Operations, with Bangladesh leading the tally (6,700), followed by India (5,832), Nepal (5,794), Rwanda (5,283) and Pakistan (4,399).{{Cite web |publisher=UN Peacekeeping |title=United Nations Peacekeeping Contribution |url=https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/01_contributions_to_un_peacekeeping_operations_by_country_and_post_51_june_2022_rev1.pdf |access-date=October 10, 2022}} In addition to military and police personnel, 5,187 international civilian personnel, 2,031 UN Volunteers and 12,036 local civilian personnel worked in UN peacekeeping missions as of March 2008.{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/bnote.htm|title=Background Note – United Nations Peacekeeping Operations}}

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Through October 2018, 3,767 people from more than 100 countries had been killed while serving on peacekeeping missions.{{Cite web|title=Fatalities|url=https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/fatalities|access-date=2022-07-28|website=United Nations Peacekeeping|language=en}} Many of those came from India (163), Nigeria (153), Pakistan (150), Bangladesh (146), and Ghana (138).UN Peacekeeping, [https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/statsbynationalitymission_2_15.pdf "Fatalities by Nationality and Mission up to 8/31/2018"] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180927204159/https://peacekeeping.un.org/sites/default/files/statsbynationalitymission_2_15.pdf |date=27 September 2018 }} Thirty percent of the fatalities during the first 55 years of UN peacekeeping occurred in the years 1993–1995.

The rate of reimbursement by the UN for troop-contributing countries per peacekeeper per month include: $1,028 for pay and allowances; $303 supplementary pay for specialists; $68 for personal clothing, gear and equipment; and $5 for personal weaponry.{{Cite web|url=https://www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko/faq/q10.htm|title=United Nations Peacekeepers - How are peacekeepers compensated?}}

{{See also|Canadian peacekeeping }}

Canada has served in over 50 peacekeeping missions, including every UN peacekeeping effort from its inception until 1989.{{cite web | title=Canada and Peacekeeping | website=The Canadian Encyclopedia | date=Jun 30, 2023 | url=https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peacekeeping | access-date=Mar 14, 2024 | archive-date=February 26, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240226043915/https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/peacekeeping | url-status=live }} Canada provided the most UN peacekeepers during the Cold War with approximately 80,000 personnel{{Snd}}equivalent to 10 percent of total UN forces.{{cite journal | last1=Dorn | first1=A. Walter | last2=Libben | first2=Joshua | title=Preparing for peace: Myths and realities of Canadian peacekeeping training | journal=International Journal | publisher=[Sage Publications, Inc., Sage Publications, Ltd., Canadian International Council] | volume=73 | issue=2 | year=2018 | issn=0020-7020 | jstor=26499686 | pages=257–281 | doi=10.1177/0020702018788552 | s2cid=149978007 | url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/26499686 | access-date=February 29, 2024 | archive-date=February 29, 2024 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229165415/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26499686 | url-status=live | url-access=subscription }}{{cite web | title=The Fall of Canadian Peacekeeping: Should It Be Revived? | website=NAOC | date=2019-07-31 | url=https://natoassociation.ca/the-fall-of-canadian-peacekeeping-should-it-be-revived/ | access-date=2024-03-14 | quote=This event began the era of Canadian domination of peacekeeping. Canada ranks first in the amount of peacekeepers provided during the Cold War. During this time, Canada was also the only country to be a part of every UN peacekeeping operation. Canada provided 80,000 peacekeepers (10 percent of the UN total) before UN peacekeepers won the 1988 Nobel Peace Prize. All these accomplishments show that Canada used to be a world leader in peacekeeping. | archive-date=2024-03-14 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240314001819/https://natoassociation.ca/the-fall-of-canadian-peacekeeping-should-it-be-revived/ | url-status=live }} In all, more than 125,000 Canadian men and women military personnel, civilians, diplomats{{Snd}}including over 4,000 Canadian police officers{{Snd}}have served in peacekeeping operations.{{cite web | title=The benefits of policing beyond Canadian borders | website=Royal Canadian Mounted Police | date=2024-01-15 | url=https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/gazette/the-benefits-policing-canadian-borders | access-date=2024-02-29 | archive-date=2024-02-29 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240229203408/https://www.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/en/gazette/the-benefits-policing-canadian-borders | url-status=live }} Approximately 130 Canadians have died in service of peacekeeping operations, with 123 of these deaths occurring during UN missions. Seven Canadians have been UN force commanders and two Canadians have been commanders of UN observer missions.

In the United States, the Bill Clinton and George W. Bush administrations began with differing philosophies but came to adopt remarkably similar policies using peace operations to assist American foreign policy. Initial ideological concerns were replaced by pragmatic decisions about how to assist UN peace operations. Both administrations were reluctant to contribute large contingents of ground troops to UN-commanded operations, even as both administrations endorsed increases in the number and scale of UN missions.Victoria K. Holt, and Michael G. Mackinnon. "The origins and evolution of US policy towards peace operations." International peacekeeping 15.1 (2008): 18-34 [https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/94297/US_Policy_Towards_Peace_Operations.pdf online]. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200821071035/https://www.files.ethz.ch/isn/94297/US_Policy_Towards_Peace_Operations.pdf |date=21 August 2020 }}

According to scholar Page Fortna, there is strong evidence that the presence of peacekeepers significantly reduces the risk of renewed warfare; more peacekeeping troops results in fewer battlefield and civilian deaths.{{Cite web|title = Enough with the Pessimism about Peacekeeping|url = http://politicalviolenceataglance.org/2015/09/24/enough-with-the-pessimism-about-peacekeeping/|website = Political Violence @ a Glance|date = 24 September 2015|access-date = 2015-10-22 | author1=Politicalviolenceataglance }} There is also evidence that the promise to deploy peacekeepers can help international organizations in bringing combatants to negotiate and increase the likelihood that they will agree to a cease-fire.{{Cite journal|last=Lundgren|first=Magnus|year=2016|title=Which international organizations can settle civil wars?|journal=Review of International Organizations|volume=DOI 10.1007/s11558-016-9253-0|issue=4|pages=613–641|doi=10.1007/s11558-016-9253-0|s2cid=152898046}}

However, there have been several reports during UN peacekeeping missions of human rights abuse by UN soldiers, notably in the Central African Republic in 2015. The cost of these missions is also significant, with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) costing $1 billion per year for 12,500 UN soldiers unable to prevent the country's civil war. Often missions require approval from local governments before deploying troops which can also limit the effectiveness of UN missions.{{Cite news|url=https://www.economist.com/news/international/21730636-persecution-rohingya-latest-atrocity-un-has-failed|title=Peacekeepers in name only|newspaper=The Economist|access-date=2017-11-14|language=en}}

Nicholas Sambanis asserts that the presence of a UN peacekeeping mission is correlated with a positive effect on the achievement of peace, especially in the short-term. However, he notes that this effect is lessened over time. Thus, the longer that peacekeepers remain in a country, the greater the likelihood that peace will maintain. Acknowledging the success that UN peacekeeping operations have achieved in increasing political participation, Sambanis claims that a greater emphasis on economic development would further increase the efficacy of peacekeeping efforts.{{Cite journal|last=Sambanis|first=Nicholas|date=2008|title=Short- and Long-Term Effects of United Nations Peace Operations|journal=The World Bank Economic Review|volume=22|pages=9–32|doi=10.1093/wber/lhm022|hdl=10986/4470|hdl-access=free}}

Another study suggests that doubling the peacekeeping operation budget, stronger peacekeeping operation mandates and a doubling of the PKO budget would reduce armed conflicts by as much as two thirds relative to a scenario without PKOs.{{Cite journal|last1=Hegre|first1=Håvard|last2=Hultman|first2=Lisa|last3=Nygård|first3=Håvard Mokleiv|date=2018-11-28|title=Evaluating the Conflict-Reducing Effect of UN Peacekeeping Operations|journal=The Journal of Politics|volume=81|issue=1|pages=215–232|doi=10.1086/700203|s2cid=13894244|issn=0022-3816|doi-access=free}} An analysis of 47 peace operations by Virginia Page Fortna of Columbia University found that the involvement of UN personnel generally resulted in enduring peace.{{Cite book|url=https://bookshop.org/books/does-peacekeeping-work-shaping-belligerents-choices-after-civil-war/9780691136714|title=Does Peacekeeping Work?: Shaping Belligerents' Choices After Civil War|date=2008|isbn=978-0-691-13671-4|language=en|last1=Fortna|first1=Virginia Page|publisher=Princeton University Press }} Political scientists Hanne Fjelde, Lisa Hultman and Desiree Nilsson of Uppsala University studied twenty years of data on peacekeeping missions, including in Lebanon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and the Central African Republic, and concluded that they were more effective at reducing civilian casualties than counterterrorism operations by nation states.{{Cite book|url=https://bookshop.org/books/power-in-peacekeeping/9781108457187|title=Power in Peacekeeping|date=2019|isbn=978-1-108-45718-7|language=en|last1=Howard|first1=Lise Morjé|publisher=Cambridge University Press }}

A 2021 study in the American Political Science Review found that the presence of UN peacekeeping missions had a weak correlation with rule of law while conflict is ongoing, but a robust correlation during periods of peace. The study also found that "the relationship is stronger for civilian than uniformed personnel, and is strongest when UN missions engage host states in the process of reform".{{Cite journal|last=Blair|first=Robert A.|date=2021|title=UN Peacekeeping and the Rule of Law|url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/american-political-science-review/article/un-peacekeeping-and-the-rule-of-law/0ACAA5D97E5E1A49B9EC1BE20F2171F2|journal=American Political Science Review|language=en|volume=115|issue=1|pages=51–68|doi=10.1017/S0003055420000738|s2cid=226196050|issn=0003-0554|via=|url-access=subscription}} Likewise, Georgetown University professor Lise Howard argues that UN peacekeeping operations are more effective by virtue of their lack of compelling force; rather, their use of nonviolent methods such as "verbal persuasion, financial inducements and coercion short of offensive military force, including surveillance and arrest" are likelier to pacify warring parties.{{Cite web|title=A U.N. Peacekeeping Mission Is Afghanistan's Best Hope|url=https://www.worldpoliticsreview.com/articles/29632/after-us-war-afghanistan-peacekeeping-mission-deserves-a-chance|access-date=2021-06-23|website=www.worldpoliticsreview.com|date=7 May 2021 |language=en}}

A 2021 study in the American Journal of Political Science found that UN peacekeeping in South Sudan had a positive effect on the local economy.{{Cite journal|last1=Bove|first1=Vincenzo|last2=Salvatore|first2=Jessica Di|last3=Elia|first3=Leandro|date=2021|title=UN Peacekeeping and Households' Well-Being in Civil Wars|journal=American Journal of Political Science|volume=66 |issue=2 |pages=402–417 |language=en|doi=10.1111/ajps.12644|issn=1540-5907|doi-access=free|hdl=10281/458537|hdl-access=free}}

According to a 2011 study, UN peacekeeping missions were most likely to be successful if they had assistance and consent from domestic actors in the host state.{{Cite journal|last1=Pushkina|first1=Darya|last2=Siewert|first2=Markus B.|last3=Wolff|first3=Stefan|date=2021|title=Mission (im)possible? UN military peacekeeping operations in civil wars|journal=European Journal of International Relations|volume=28 |pages=158–186 |language=en|doi=10.1177/13540661211046602|issn=1354-0661|doi-access=free}}

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Reporters witnessed a rapid increase of prostitution in Cambodia and Mozambique after UN peacekeeping forces moved in. In the 1996 UN study "The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children", the former first lady of Mozambique Graça Machel documented: "In 6 out of 12 country studies on sexual exploitation of children in situations of armed conflict prepared for the present report, the arrival of peacekeeping troops has been associated with a rapid rise in child prostitution."{{Cite web|url=http://www.unicef.org/graca/a51-306_en.pdf|title=The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030316210918/http://www.unicef.org/graca/a51-306_en.pdf|archive-date=16 March 2003|url-status=live}}

Gita Sahgal spoke out in 2004 about the fact that prostitution and sex abuse occurs wherever humanitarian intervention efforts are established. She observed: "The issue with the UN is that peacekeeping operations, unfortunately, seems to be doing the same thing that other militaries do. Even the guardians have to be guarded."{{cite journal | url=https://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1126/p06s02-wogi.html | title=Sex charges haunt UN forces | date=November 26, 2004 | access-date=16 February 2010 | journal=Christian Science Monitor}}

The following table chart illustrates confirmed accounts of crimes and human rights violations committed by United Nations soldiers, peacekeepers, and employees.{{refn|

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In response to criticism, particularly of the cases of sexual abuse by peacekeepers, the UN has taken steps toward reforming its operations. The Brahimi Report was the first of many steps to recap former peacekeeping missions, isolate flaws, and take steps to patch these mistakes to ensure the efficiency of future peacekeeping missions. The UN has vowed to continue to put these practices into effect when performing peacekeeping operations in the future. The technocratic aspects of the reform process have been continued and revitalised by the DPKO in its "Peace Operations 2010" reform agenda. This included an increase in personnel, the harmonization of the conditions of service of field and headquarters staff, the development of guidelines and standard operating procedures, and improving the partnership arrangement between the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), African Union and European Union. 2008 capstone doctrine entitled "United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Principles and Guidelines" incorporates and builds on the Brahimi analysis.

One suggestion to account for delays such as the one in Rwanda is a rapid reaction force, a peacekeeping force similar to a standing army capable of quickly deploying to crises such as genocides, administered by the UN and deployed by the Security Council. The UN rapid reaction force would consist of military personnel from Security Council members or UN member states who would be stationed in their home countries, but would have the same training, equipment, and procedures, and would conduct joint exercises with other forces.[https://www.un.org/en/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/55/305 Report of the Panel on United Nations Peace Operations], 2000.{{Cite book |last=Serafino |first=Nina M. |url=http://worldcat.org/oclc/50077294 |title=A U.N. Rapid Reaction Force? A Discussion of the Issues and Considerations for U.S. Policymakers |date=1995 |publisher=Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress |oclc=50077294}}

The UN peacekeeping capacity was enhanced in 2007 by augmenting the DPKO with the new Department of Field Support (DFS). Whereas the new entity serves as a key enabler by co-ordinating the administration and logistics in UN peacekeeping operations, DPKO concentrates on policy planning and providing strategic directions.https://www.ipinst.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/pdfs_terrorism-directory_6-DPKO.pdf

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