| Handbook on Peacekeeping Operations |
|
| Summary
|
|
| The Handbook on United Nations Multidimensional Peacekeeping Operations is intended to serve as an introduction to the varied aspects of peacekeeping operations. As peacekeeping has evolved, particularly since the late 1980s, a growing number of United Nations peacekeeping operations have become multidimensional in nature, comprising a range of components that include military, civilian police, political affairs, rule of law, human rights, humanitarian, reconstruction, public information and gender. There are also a number of areas, such as mission support and security and safety of personnel, that remain essential to peacekeeping regardless of a particular mission’s mandate. This Handbook is designed to provide readers with a general overview of the responsibilities of each component of UN peacekeeping operations and how these fit together to form the whole. The primary audience is field personnel who are new to the United Nations or who are being deployed to a multidimensional peacekeeping operation for the first time. It is not intended to provide strategic or policy guidance. We have tried to make the Handbook as brief and practical as possible, while doing justice to the broad areas of work in which many operations are engaged. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
To access the Handbook now, click below.
|
|
|
|
|
|
To download a printable copy of the entire Handbook in Adobe Acrobat format, click below.
|
|
|
|
|
|