Executive Summary of Designing Mandates and Capabilities for Future Peace Operations

The Executive Summary of the report Designing Mandates and Capabilities for Future Peace Operations has been translated into the six official languages of the United Nations.

The present study  contains the findings of a two year global effort aimed at increasing the effectiveness, efficiency and long-term impact of contemporary and future peace operations. The Challenges Forum Partnership focused their attention on a selection of critical areas of inquiry, offering a range of recommendations and possible solutions to the challenges identified. The themes addressed are: Peace Operations Under New Conditions; Comparative Policies, Principles and Guidelines; Authority, Command and Control; and Impact Assessment and Evaluation.