With a view to avoid and minimize the environmental impacts of peacekeeping missions, DPKO and the Department of Field Support (DFS) adopted an Environmental Policy for UN Field Missions in June 2009.  Furthermore, Global Field Support Strategy was approved by Member States in 2010.

Over 20% of the world’s population currently lives in conflict affected areas and fragile states. In many of these places, natural resources and their governance play a key negative role in both the conflict and the fragility. In fact, since 1990 at least 18 violent conflicts have been fuelled by the exploitation of natural resources.

Security sector reform (SSR) is a nationally-owned process aimed at ensuring that security and justice providers are accountable to the state and its people; deliver effective, efficient and affordable security and justice services that meet the people’s needs; operate within a framework of good governance, rule of law, and respect for human rights; and are legitimate.

La réforme du secteur de la sécurité (RSS) est un processus dont chaque pays doit avoir la maîtrise, ayant pour but d’assurer que les acteurs de la sécurité et de la justice rendent des comptes à l’Etat et à la population; qu’ils délivrent des services de sécurité et de justice efficaces, efficients et accessibles, qui répondent aux besoins des personnes; qu’ils opèrent dans un cadre de bonne g

UNITAR Peacekeeping Training Programme Unit, in partnership with the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, offers a short course on the History of UN Peacekeeping.

Trauma is a global burden, adversely affecting human development, world development, and even world peace. Trauma has not received the attention it deserves, or treatment the support it needs. The contribution large-scale trauma healing could make to enhance social, economic and cultural productivity, as well as individual educability, creativity and well-being, could well be historic.

Le trauma est un fardeau globale, affectant négativement le développement humain, le développement mondial, et même la paix mondiale. Le trauma n’a pas reçu l’attention qu’il mérite, ni son traitement un soutien nécessaire.

According to the World Bank, more than 1.5 billion people live in countries affected by repeated violence. In absolute terms, the need for direct physical protection of civilians against imminent violence has never been greater than it is today. Local and international actors are struggling to protect all those under direct threat, wherever conflict occurs.

Selon la Banque mondiale, plus de 1,5 milliard de personnes vivent dans des pays touchés par la violence répétée. Irréfutablement, la nécessité d'une protection physique directe des civils contre la violence imminente n'a jamais été aussi présente qu’elle ne l’est aujourd’hui.

Gender Matters is an open, self-paced course meant to provide an introduction to the concept of gender.