16 May 2008

GPPi contributes to UN-NUPI seminar on peacekeeping doctrine

GPPi Research Associate Philipp Rotmann participated in a seminar debating the new foundational doctrine for United Nations peace operations. The conference was hosted by the Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI) and the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) on 13-15 May 2008 in Oslo, Norway. The workshop brought together leading international academics working on UN peace operations with the DPKO doctrine team and a number of experienced peacekeeping practitioners.

Rotmann moderated a discussion on "Coherence, Coordination and Integration of UN Peacekeeping Operations." The debate touched on recent structural and processual innovations for integrating the UN family's efforts in war-torn countries such as the "triple-hatted DSRSG" in integrated missions, joint logistics, information and analysis capacities and the Integrated Mission Planning Process. Furthermore, the discussion addressed outreach to NGOs and local political actors, the notion and reality of "local ownership" and peacekeeping partnerships with other international organizations such as NATO, the European Union or the African Union.

Speakers and participants at the event included Prof. Michael Pugh, University of Bradford; Prof Peter Viggo Jakobsen, University of Copenhagen; Prof Salman Ahmed, Princeton University; Prof Chiyuki Aoi, Aoyama Gakuin University; Prof Paulo Estevez, Catholic University of Minas Gerais; Dr Annika Hansen, FFI; Dr Thomas Jaye, Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre in Accra; and Dr Thierry Tardy, Geneva Centre for Security Policy. The seminar was hosted by Jan Egeland, former UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and head of NUPI; Cedric de Coning, NUPI, Training for Peace; and Paul Keating, DPKO, Division for Policy, Evaluation and Training.

The UN's new peacekeeping doctrine has been published as "United Nations Peacekeeping: Principles and Guidelines" by the UN's Department of Peacekeeping Operations in January 2008. To download the document, please click here.

For further information, please contact Philipp Rotmann.

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