Peacekeeping Reimagined: Strategies for a Safer World

It has been nearly a decade since the Security Council authorized its most recent UN peacekeeping mission, and since then four   security missions have been asked to leave by the local authorities. This all points to potential problems that peacekeeping missions are facing, and their future remains uncertain. The Security Council has taken some ways to address this by trying to address some of the problems that the missions are facing but this has not proven to be enough. There is growing pressure coming from the experts, the international community and the host countries to try to address the shortcomings of the peacekeeping missions. There has been criticism about their efficiency, funding, transparency as well as the safety and accountability of the peacekeeping missions’ staff. These are just some of the problems that the peacekeeping missions are facing and if we wish to see them continue it is necessary for them to be reformed or reimagined in some way especially in their connection with the local population which is at best fragile. Currently they are not doing this task efficiently or the local population does not see it as actual protection. It is up to the delegates to find an answer to these problems and to find a way forward for the reimagined peacekeeping missions to ensure a safer world.