Lise Howard - Peacekeeping in crisis
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 2016-11-08

Today there are more UN troops than any other type of uniformed forces deployed in conflict zones in the world. There are over 100 000 UN peacekeepers deployed across 16 missions, 9 of which are multidimensional.

Multidimensional missions aim to monitor cease fire lines, reconstruct the vey institutions of the state, and knit the social fabric and economic systems back together.

Lise Howard of Georgetown University discusses why the UN has been not been able to deploy a multidimensional mission on a regular basis since 2005.

More about the UNU-WIDER's ‘Responding to crises' conference:
https://www.wider.unu.edu/event/responding-crises

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