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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.
A 2008 capstone doctrine entitled "United Nations Peacekeeping Operations: Principles and Guidelines" [99] incorporates and builds on the Brahimi analysis. One of the main issues that the Brahimi report identifies is the lack of coordination and planning of the Peacekeeping Operations.
Previously known as the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), it was created in 1992 as part of a restructuring of the UN's peace and security apparatus. [3] The DPO retains the core functions and responsibilities of its predecessor, with a greater emphasis on cohesion, integrating different resources and knowledge, and promoting human ...
The Fourth Committee meets every year from late September to mid-November, but also convenes briefly in the spring to adopt any resolutions and decisions relating to peacekeeping passed by the Special Committee on Peacekeeping Operations. All 193 member states of the UN can attend its meetings. Unlike most other United Nations bodies, there is ...
The Special Committee was created on 18 February 1965 by Resolution 2006 (XIX). [2] It was mandated to conduct a comprehensive review of all issues relating to United Nations peacekeeping. Each year the General Assembly extends in mandate and calls for it to consider any new proposals that work to enhance the capacity of the United Nations to ...
Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter sets out the UN Security Council's powers to maintain peace.It allows the Council to "determine the existence of any threat to the peace, breach of the peace, or act of aggression" and to take military and nonmilitary action to "restore international peace and security".
The commission is composed of 31 member states, which gather in two main fora: an Organizational Committee, and country-specific Configurations, one for each country that currently is part of the PBC's agenda.
The Fifth Committee deals with: Member State contributions to the regular and peacekeeping budgets of the organisation, how Member State contributions are allocated, the programme and peacekeeping budgets of the United Nations and human resources issues.