Over the past six decades, United Nations peacekeeping has evolved into a complex, global undertaking. During this time, conduct of United Nations peacekeeping operations ha s been guided by a largely unwritten body of ...

To enhance the role played by women in the maintenance of international peace and security, the UN Security Council has to date adopted four specific resolutions on women, peace and security: Resolution 1325 (2000), ...

The purpose of the Civil Affairs Handbook is to provide Civil Affairs Officers with detailed practical guidance on the implementation of civil affairs work in UN peacekeeping missions, as subsidiary guidance to the DPKO/DFS ...

The purpose of these Guidelines is to provide United Nations personnel with guidance on the establishment and conduct of special investigations in peacekeeping operations. This is the first version of these guidelines.

These Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and Department of Field Support (DFS) Guidelines (hereafter referred to as “the Guidelines”) provide direction on the planning, implementation, management, monitoring and ...

This guidance document sets out the temporary and extraordinary transitional measures for the resumption of uniformed rotations, repatriations and deployments (hereafter referred to as “rotations” for brevity) to and from ...