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United Nations highlights need to adapt peacekeeping for new threats
Summary
A United Nations statement honoring peacekeepers called for adapting peacekeeping operations to emerging threats, better resourcing, and achievable mandates while noting rising risks to personnel.
The United Nations marked the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers by honoring fallen personnel and urging member states to equip peacekeeping operations for changing global threats. The statement noted that more than 4,400 peacekeepers have died in service, including 57 in the last year.
The address emphasized that peacekeepers now operate amid growing polarization, terrorism, targeted misinformation, the climate crisis and transnational crime. It said these factors make operations more dangerous and stressed that adapting peacekeeping is a shared responsibility of the United Nations and member states.
Referencing the Pact for the Future adopted last year at the United Nations, the statement said the pact includes commitments to adapt peacekeeping to current realities. It described a review of peace operations as the "first step" toward designing "future-focused models" anchored in political solutions, properly resourced and with achievable mandates and clear exit strategies.
The address concluded by saying the world needs the United Nations and that peacekeeping must be fully equipped for today—s realities and tomorrow—s challenges.
