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Current Missions Past Missions UN refugee camp in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. IDP camp in Sudan resulting from the Darfur conflict.. This is a list of United Nations peacekeeping missions since the United Nations was founded in 1945, organized by region, with the dates of deployment, the name of the related conflict, and the name of the UN operation.
The cost of these missions is also significant, with the United Nations Mission in South Sudan 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.
United Nations Mission of Support in East Timor: UNMISET East Timor: To ensure security and stabilise the nascent state during the post-independence period. Ended May 2005 2003: 2018: United Nations Mission in Liberia: UNMIL Liberia: Oversee ceasefire and train national police after the Second Liberian Civil War. 2004: 2017
The largest was the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo , which included 20,688 uniformed personnel. The smallest, United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan , included 42 uniformed personnel responsible for monitoring the ceasefire in Jammu and Kashmir.
The Department of Peacekeeping Operations was created in March 1992 when Boutros Boutros-Ghali took office as Secretary-General of the United Nations; its creation was one of his first decisions. [8] In organisational terms, it upgraded and expanded upon the work of the previous Field Administration and Logistics Division (FALD) (which remained ...
The international community has been divided on financial support for the missions new structure. [10] On 27 December 2024, soon thereafter, the United Nations Security Council approves the Resolution 2767 deployment of this mission effective on 1 January 2025, replacing the current African Union Transition Mission in Somalia. [11]
United Nations Peacekeeping started in 1948 when the United Nations Security Council authorised the deployment of UN unarmed military observers to the Middle East in order to monitor the armistice agreement that was signed between Israel and its Arab neighbours in the wake of the Arab-Israeli War.
The United Nations Peacekeeping efforts began in 1948. [1] Its first activity was in the Middle East to observe and maintain the ceasefire during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War . Since then, United Nations peacekeepers have taken part in a total of 72 missions around the globe, 12 of which continue today.