The Contribution of UN Peacekeeping to Early Peacebuilding: A DPKO-DFS Strategy for Peacekeepers

Abstract

On 27 June 2011 the Expanded Senior Management Team of the Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support adopted this strategy to assist peacekeepers to prioritize, sequence and plan critical early peacebuilding tasks. This strategy was developed over a two-year period, through a consultative process.ssThis strategy was designed to impart clarity to peacekeepers as to their comparative advantages and expected contributions to the achievement of complex peacebuilding objectives arising from Security Council mandates or other requests for assistance.ssThe Departments of Peacekeeping Operations and Field Support launched a “Planning Toolkit” in 2012 to assist mission personnel to adapt the prioritization criteria outlined in this strategy to the specific contexts in which they are working and to reflect those priorities in their strategic, operational, and component-level plans and budgets.