Maintain International Peace and Security

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element-hidden"></span> <div class="content"> <div class="field-name-field-image"><img src="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/styles/banner-image-style-27-10/public/2021/03/peacekeepers-in-mali-2018.jpg" alt="A UN peacekeeper standing guard with 2 peacekeepers and a UN vehicle in the background. "/></div> <div class="image-metadata"><span class="photo-credit">Togolese peacekeepers from the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) patrol Menaka in 2018. Peacekeeping has proven to be one of the most effective tools available to the UN to assist countries to navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. UN Photo/Marco Dormino</span></div> <div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><div class="row topmargin-lg bottommargin"> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-12"> </div> <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <p>The United Nations was created in 1945, following the devastation of the Second World War, with one central mission: the maintenance of international peace and security. The UN accomplishes this by working to prevent conflict, helping parties in conflict make peace, <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/deploying-peacekeepers">deploying peacekeepers</a>, and creating the conditions to allow peace to hold and flourish. These activities often overlap and should reinforce one another, to be effective.</p> <p>The UN Security Council has the primary responsibility for international peace and security. The General Assembly and the Secretary-General play major, important, and complementary roles, along with other UN offices and bodies.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-12"> </div> </div> <div class="row"> <div class="col-lg-1 col-md-1 col-sm-12"> </div> <div class="col-md-5 col-sm-12"> <h2 class="heading-underlined-blue">Security Council</h2> <img alt="The UN Security Council voting on extending peacekeeping mission" class="img-responsive" src="https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/2021/01/security-council-extends-unisfa-2019.jpg"> <p class="photo-credit">The Security Council unanimously adopting resolution 2497 (2019) extending the mandate of the UN Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA). UN Photo/Loey Felipe</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/">Security Council</a> takes the lead in determining the existence of a threat to the peace or an act of aggression. It calls upon the parties to a dispute to settle it by peaceful means and recommends methods of adjustment or terms of settlement. Under <a href="https://www.un.org/en/about-us/un-charter/chapter-7">Chapter VII </a>of the UN Charter, the Security Council can take enforcement measures to maintain or restore international peace and security. Such measures range from <a href="https://www.un.org/securitycouncil/sanctions/information">economic sanctions</a> to international military action. The Council also establishes <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en">UN Peacekeeping Operations</a> and <a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/dppa-around-world">Special Political Missions</a>.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-5 col-sm-12"> <h2 class="heading-underlined-blue">General Assembly</h2> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/V9iUnXtTwLs" title="Explainer: What is the General Assembly?"></iframe></div> <p class="photo-credit">Learn more about the UN General Assembly.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.un.org/en/ga/">General Assembly</a> is the main deliberative, policymaking and representative organ of the UN. Through regular meetings, the General Assembly provides a forum for Member States to express their views to the entire membership and find consensus on difficult issues. It makes recommendations in the form of General Assembly <a href="https://research.un.org/en/docs/ga/quick/regular/78">resolutions</a>. Decisions on important questions, such as those on peace and security, admission of new members and budgetary matters, require a two-thirds majority, but other questions are decided by simple majority.</p> </div> <div class="col-lg-1 col-md-1 col-sm-12"> </div> </div> <h2 class="heading-underlined-blue topmargin-lg">How does the UN maintain international peace and security?</h2> <div class="row grey-well bottommargin"> <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <h3><a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/prevention-and-mediation">Preventive Diplomacy and Mediation</a></h3> <p>The most effective way to diminish human suffering and the massive economic costs of conflicts and their aftermath is to prevent conflicts in the first place. The United Nations plays an important role in <a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/united-nations-conflict-prevention-and-preventive-diplomacy-action">conflict prevention</a>, using <a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/prevention-and-mediation">diplomacy</a>, <a href="https://peacemaker.un.org/peacemaking-mandate/secretary-general">good offices</a> and <a href="https://peacemaker.un.org/">mediation</a>. Among the tools the Organization uses to bring peace are <a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/current-presences">special envoys</a> and <a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/dppa-around-world">political missions</a> in the field.</p> <h4 class="top-padding">Special and Personal Representatives, Envoys and Advisers of the Secretary-General</h4> <p>The Secretary-General of the United Nations has Special and Personal Representatives, Envoys and Advisers <a href="https://www.un.org/sg/en/global-leadership/home">in many areas of the world</a>.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 top-padding"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/M83fUUEqA9g" title="What is Conflict Prevention?"></iframe></div> <p class="photo-credit">What is Conflict Prevention?</p> </div> </div> <div class="row grey-well bottommargin"> <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <h3>Peacekeeping</h3> <p><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en">Peacekeeping</a> has proven to be one of the most effective tools available to the UN to assist countries to navigate the difficult path from conflict to peace. Today's multidimensional peacekeeping operations are called upon not only to maintain peace and security, but also to facilitate <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/advancing-political-solutions-to-conflict">political processes</a>, protect civilians, assist in the <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/disarmament-demobilization-and-reintegration">disarmament</a>, demobilization and reintegration of former combatants; support constitutional processes and the organization of elections, protect and promote <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/promoting-human-rights">human rights</a> and assist in restoring the <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/building-rule-of-law-and-security-institutions">rule of law</a> and extending legitimate state authority.</p> <p>Peacekeeping operations get their mandates from the UN Security Council; their troops and police are <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/troop-and-police-contributors">contributed</a> by Members States; and they are managed by the <a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/department-of-peace-operations">Department of Peace Operations</a> and supported by the <a href="https://operationalsupport.un.org/en">Department of Operational Support</a> at UN Headquarters in New York.</p> <p>There are <a href="http://peacekeeping.un.org/en/where-we-operate">11 UN peacekeeping operations</a> currently deployed and there have been a total of 71 deployed since 1948. In 2019, the Secretary-General launched the <a href="https://www.un.org/en/A4P/">Action for Peacekeeping Initiative (A4P)</a> to renew mutual political commitment to peacekeeping operations.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 top-padding"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/MJ_bvC9Efuc" title="Under the Blue Helmet: Life as a UN Peacekeeper in the Democratic Republic of the Congo"></iframe></div> <p class="photo-credit">Life as a UN Peacekeeper</p> </div> <div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12"> <h4 class="horizontal-line-top-blue-arrow"><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/where-we-operate">UN Peacekeeping operations</a> by region</h4> </div> <div class="top-padding"> <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <h5 class="caps">Africa</h5> <ul class="underline-links"> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/minurso">United Nations Mission for the Referendum in Western Sahara (MINURSO)</a></li> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/minusca">United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA)</a></li> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/monusco">United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the DR Congo (MONUSCO)</a></li> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unisfa">United Nations Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA)</a></li> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unmiss">United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-12"> <h5 class="caps">Asia and the Pacific</h5> <ul class="underline-links"> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unmogip">United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)</a></li> </ul> <h5 class="caps">Europe and Central Asia</h5> <ul class="underline-links"> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unmik">United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK)</a></li> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unficyp">United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus (UNFICYP)</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="col-md-3 col-sm-12"> <h5 class="caps">The Middle East</h5> <ul class="underline-links"> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/undof">United Nations Disengagement Observer Force (UNDOF)</a></li> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/unifil">United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL)</a></li> <li><a href="https://peacekeeping.un.org/en/mission/untso">United Nations Truce Supervision Organizations (UNTSO)</a></li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> <div class="row grey-well bottommargin"> <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <h3>Peacebuilding</h3> <p>United Nations <a href="https://www.un.org/peacebuilding/">peacebuilding</a> activities are aimed at assisting countries emerging from conflict, reducing the risk of relapsing into conflict and laying the foundation for sustainable peace and development.</p> <p>The UN peacebuilding architecture comprises the <a href="https://www.un.org/peacebuilding/commission">Peacebuilding Commission</a>, the <a href="https://www.un.org/peacebuilding/fund">Peacebuilding Fund</a> and the Peacebuilding Support Office.</p> <p>The <a href="https://www.un.org/peacebuilding/policy-issues-and-partnerships">Peacebuilding Support Office</a> assists and supports the Peacebuilding Commission with strategic advice and policy guidance, administers the Peacebuilding Fund and serves the Secretary-General in coordinating United Nations agencies in their peacebuilding efforts.</p> </div> <div class="col-md-6 col-sm-12"> <div class="embed-responsive embed-responsive-16by9 top-padding"><iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/uuwAD5utXIM" title="The UN: Innovating for Peace tells the story of a bold and revolutionary United Nations, throughout its history and for the future."></iframe></div> <p class="photo-credit">Innovating for Peace</p> </div> <div class="col-md-12 col-sm-12"> <h4 class="horizontal-line-top-blue-arrow"><a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/">Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs</a> (DPPA)</h4> <h5 class="caps top-padding">Presence by region</h5> <p>The <a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/">Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs</a> (DPPA) <a href="https://dppa.un.org/en/dppa-around-world">works</a> in Africa, the Americas, Asia and the Pacific, Europe and Central Asia, and the Middle East.</p> </div> </div> <div class="row grey-well bottommargin"> <div class="col-md-9 col-sm-12"> <h3>Countering Terrorism</h3> <p>The United Nations is being increasingly called upon to coordinate the <a href="https://www.un.org/counterterrorism/">global fight against terrorism</a>. Eighteen universal instruments against international terrorism have been elaborated within the framework of the United Nations system relating to specific terrorist activities. In September 2006, UN Member States adopted the <a href="https://www.un.org/counterterrorism/un-global-counter-terrorism-strategy">United Nations Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy</a>. 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