CAF25 Background Paper: Considerations for the Review on the Future of All Forms of UN Peace Operations

The ongoing peace operations review provides an opportunity to examine how UN structures and approaches can be better adapted to respond to existing challenges and new realities.

To make the most of this opportunity requires an understanding of the shifts required in peace operations, a recognition of the reasons why previous reform efforts fell short, and a strategy for leveraging related processes, including the UN80 initiative. This paper highlights key considerations for the process ahead.

This paper is authored by Eugene Chen who is a former diplomat andUN official whose research focuses
on the interplay of substantive policy, intergovernmental politics, and bureaucratic processes at the UN in areas such as international peace and security and institutional reform.