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    With the end of the Cold War, UN peacekeeping shifted from traditional observer missions to complex multidimensional operations designed to implement comprehensive peace agreements and build sustainable peace. These new operations involved tasks like institution building, human rights monitoring, security sector reform, and DDR. While initially successful, missions in the 1990s like Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia faced criticism when peace agreements broke down. This led to reforms and more cautious mission authorizations in the mid-1990s before new operations resumed in places like the DRC, Liberia, Sudan, and Haiti to address ongoing crises.

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    With the end of the Cold War, UN peacekeeping shifted from traditional observer missions to complex multidimensional operations designed to implement comprehensive peace agreements and build sustainable peace. These new operations involved tasks like institution building, human rights monitoring, security sector reform, and DDR. While initially successful, missions in the 1990s like Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia faced criticism when peace agreements broke down. This led to reforms and more cautious mission authorizations in the mid-1990s before new operations resumed in places like the DRC, Liberia, Sudan, and Haiti to address ongoing crises.

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    With the end of the Cold War, UN peacekeeping shifted from traditional observer missions to complex multidimensional operations designed to implement comprehensive peace agreements and build sustainable peace. These new operations involved tasks like institution building, human rights monitoring, security sector reform, and DDR. While initially successful, missions in the 1990s like Somalia, Rwanda, and the former Yugoslavia faced criticism when peace agreements broke down. This led to reforms and more cautious mission authorizations in the mid-1990s before new operations resumed in places like the DRC, Liberia, Sudan, and Haiti to address ongoing crises.

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    With the end of the Cold War, the strategic context for UN Salvador (ONUSAL), Mozambique - UN Operation in

    Peacekeeping changed dramatically. Mozambique (ONUMOZ) and Namibia - UN Transition


    Assistance Group (UNTAG), were deployed to:
    The UN shifted and expanded its field operations from
    traditional missions involving generally observational help implement complex peace agreements;
    tasks performed by military personnel to complex
    multidimensional enterprises. These multidimensional
    stabilize the security situation;
    missions were designed to ensure the implementation of
    comprehensive peace agreements and assist in laying the
    foundations for sustainable peace. re-organize military and police;

    The nature of conflicts also changed over the years. UN elect new governments and build democratic
    Peacekeeping, originally developed as a means of dealing with institutions.
    inter-State conflict, was increasingly being applied to intra-
    State conflicts and civil wars.

    UN Peacekeepers were now increasingly asked to undertake a The mid-1990s: A period of reassessment
    wide variety of complex tasks, from helping to build sustainable
    institutions of governance, to human rights monitoring, to
    security sector reform, to the disarmament, demobilization and The general success of earlier missions raised
    reintegration of former combatants. expectations for UN Peacekeeping beyond its capacity to
    deliver. This was especially true in the mid 1990s in
    situations when the Security Council was not able to
    Although the military remained the backbone of most authorize sufficiently robust mandates or provide
    peacekeeping operations, there were now many faces to adequate resources.
    peacekeeping including:

    Missions were established in situations where the guns had not


    administrators yet fallen silent, in areas such as the former Yugoslavia - UN
    Protection Force (UNPROFOR), Rwanda - UN Assistance
    economists Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR) and Somalia - UN Operation in
    Somalia II (UNOSOM II), where there was no peace to keep.
    police officers
    These three high-profile peacekeeping operations came under
    criticism as peacekeepers faced situations where warring
    legal experts parties failed to adhere to peace agreements, or where the
    peacekeepers themselves were not provided adequate
    de-miners resources or political support. As civilian casualties rose and
    hostilities continued, the reputation of UN Peacekeeping
    suffered.
    electoral observers
    The setbacks of the early and mid-1990s led the Security
    human rights monitors Council to limit the number of new peacekeeping missions and
    begin a process of self-reflection to prevent such failures from
    civil affairs and governance specialists happening again.

    The Secretary-General commissioned an independent inquiry


    humanitarian workers
    into the actions of the United Nations during the 1994 genocide
    in Rwanda and, at the request of the General Assembly,
    communications and public information experts provided a comprehensive assessment on the 1993-1995
    events in Srebrenica in the former Yugoslavia. The
    1989 - 1994: Rapid increase in numbers circumstances that led to the UN withdrawal from Somalia
    were also carefully examined.

    After the Cold War ended, there was a rapid increase in the
    number of peacekeeping operations. With a new In the meantime, UN peacekeepers continued their long-term
    consensus and a common sense of purpose, the Security operations in the Middle East, Asia and Cyprus.
    Council authorized a total of 20 new operations between
    1989 and 1994, raising the number of peacekeepers from With continuing crises in a number of countries and
    11,000 to 75,000. regions, the essential role of UN Peacekeeping was soon
    emphatically reaffirmed. In the second half of the 1990s,
    Peacekeeping operations established in such countries as the Council authorized new UN operations in:
    Angola -UN Angola Verification Mission I (UNAVEM
    I) and UN Angola Verification Mission II (UNAVEM II), Angola - UN Angola Verification Mission III
    Cambodia - UN Transitional Authority in Cambodia (UNAVEM III) and UN Observer Mission in Angola
    (UNTAC), El Salvador - UN Observer Mission in El (MONUA);
    Bosnia and Herzegovina - UN Mission in Bosnia Cte dIvoire - UN Operation in Cte d'Ivoire (UNOCI);
    and Herzegovina (UNMIBH);
    Democratic Republic of the Congo - UN Organization
    Croatia - UN Confidence Restoration Operation in Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Croatia (UNCRO), UN Transitional Administration (MONUC) and UN Organization Stabilization Mission
    for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
    Sirmium (UNTAES) and UN Civilian Police Support (MONUSCO);
    Group (UNPSG);
    Eritrea/Ethiopia - UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
    the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia - UN (UNMEE)
    Preventive Deployment Force (UNPREDEP);
    Liberia - UN Mission in Liberia (UNMIL);
    Guatemala - UN Verification Mission in Guatemala
    (MINUGUA); Sierra Leone - UN Mission in Sierra Leone
    (UNAMSIL);
    Haiti - UN Support Mission in Haiti (UNSMIH) UN
    Transition Mission in Haiti (UNTMIH) and UN Sudan - UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS) in the
    Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (MIPONUH).
    south of the country and African Union-UN Hybrid
    Operation in Darfur (UNAMID) in Darfur), UN Interim
    Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA) and UN Mission in
    the Republic of South Sudan (UNMISS);

    Syria - UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS).


    Towards the 21st century: New operations, new challenges
    Peacekeepers also returned to resume vital peacekeeping and
    At the turn of the century, the UN undertook a major peacebuilding operations where fragile peace had frayed, in
    exercise to examine the challenges to peacekeeping in the Haiti -UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) and the
    1990s and introducing reform. The aim was to strengthen newly independent Timor-Leste - UN Integrated Mission in
    our capacity to effectively manage and sustain field Timor-Leste (UNMIT).
    operations.
    Many of these operations have now completed their mandates,
    With a greater understanding of the limits and potential of including the UN Mission in the Central African Republic and
    UN Peacekeeping, the UN was asked to perform even more Chad (MINURCAT), UN Organization Mission in the
    complex tasks. This started in 1999 when the UN served as Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), UN Operation in
    the administrator of both Kosovo in the former Yugoslavia - UN Burundi (ONUB), UN Mission in Sierra Leone
    Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), and in East (UNAMSIL) and UN Mission in Ethiopia and Eritrea
    Timor (now Timor-Leste) - UN Transitional Administration in (UNMEE) and UN Mission in the Sudan (UNMIS).
    East Timor (UNTAET), which was in the process of gaining
    independence from Indonesia. In the first decade of the century, UN Peacekeeping found
    itself stretched like never before and increasingly called
    In the following years, the Security Council also established upon to deploy to remote, uncertain operating
    large and complex peacekeeping operations in a number of environments and into volatile political contexts.
    African countries:
    Peacekeeping faced a varied set of challenges, including
    Burundi - UN Operation in Burundi (ONUB); challenges to deliver on its largest, most expensive and
    increasingly complex missions, challenges to design and
    execute viable transition strategies for missions where a
    Chad and the Central African Republic - UN Mission degree of stability has been attained, and challenges to
    in the Central African Republic and Chad prepare for an uncertain future and set of requirements.
    (MINURCAT);

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