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UN Civil-Military Operations in Integrated Missions:

Benefits and Challenges

Measuring a peace operation’s success is a challenging undertaking. In the words of Bill J. Durch, a renowned
scholar of peacekeeping, peacekeeping is ‘a matter of art’: ‘the art of diplomacy, the art of (selective) war, the
art of reconciliation and the art
of law and politics’ (Durch &
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Berkman, 2006) . There is,
however, one undisputed
success ingredient everyone
seems to agree on: success is
more likely when, as Security
Council underlined in
Resolution 2086 (2013),
“peacekeeping uses a mix of
civilian, police, and military
capabilities under a unified
leadership” in a
comprehensive, coherent and
integrated way.
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In its most recent Presidential Statement on peacekeeping operations , the UN Security Council yet again
emphasized that any successful
implementation of its mandates
requires close cooperation of all
mechanisms within UN
Missions, their joint analysis and
action. As readers of this
Magazine are aware, today’s
multidimensional peacekeeping
operations include, military,
police, human rights,
disarmament and demobilization,
child protection and many other
components. Against the
background of this diversity,
achieving results in
peacekeeping requires close

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Tobias C. Berkman, William Durch, “Who Should Keep the Peace? (Stimson Center, 2006).
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S/PRST/2018 of 14 May 2018

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