Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. There are several potential reasons for countries to participate in peacekeeping.

The Biden administration is dropping its push to have the Kenya-led security mission in Haiti transformed into a formal United Nations peacekeeping operation — at least for now. Language about any ...

A Kenyan police officer, part of a U.N.-backed multinational force, patrols a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in December 2024. AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph For decades, the United Nations has intervened ...

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BERLIN (AP) — U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres told countries that the world body’s peacekeeping operation is “only as strong as member states’ commitment to it” as he pleaded with them Tuesday ...

WASHINGTON — The Russian government issued its strongest statement yet Wednesday against a provisional cease-fire agreed by the US and Ukraine a day earlier following marathon talks in Saudi Arabia.

Bucharest is willing to lend its critical military infrastructure to any post-war peacekeeping effort in Ukraine. US support for a European-led peacekeeping mission in Ukraine is essential to securing ...

This year marks the 75th anniversary of the founding of the United Nations, and as part of its 75th anniversary initiative (UN75), United Nations Academic Impact (UNAI) is hosting the 75 for UN75: 75 ...

About the book: Civil wars have caused tremendous human suffering in the last century, and the United Nations is often asked to send peacekeepers to stop ongoing violence. Yet despite being the most ...

Before the Iraq war, the Peacekeeping Institute at the U.S. Army War College in Carlisle, Pa., was just one more vestige of the Clinton years that Donald Rumsfeld intended to consign to the dustbin of ...

UN peacekeeping has been developed to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for lasting peace since the first mission was established in May 1948. There have been a total of 63 UN ...