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could be reluctan- ild on each other’s strength. story/2020/03/1059472
ce to mandate Both Hunt and Gowan agree that 6. Ibid
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new operations. UN Peace Operations need to be- 7. UN Media Briefi ng of 22 May 2020
8. https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/
Secondly, if key come exceptionally fl exible and fi les/note_on_covid-19_medevac_for_
troop-contribu- adaptable in future. And this fl exi- ingo_partners_of_un_and_iasc_in_ghrp_
and_hrp_countries.pdf
ting countries bility should include a closer coo- 9. Will COVID-19 pandemic convince us of
were to recall peration with the private sector, ci- the critical mental health dimension of
contingents to vilian-led protection, human rights peacebuilding, Paige Arthur, Center for
International Cooperation (CIC), April
support domestic monitoring actors and the broa- 2020, https://cic.nyu.edu/publications/
affairs – as done der UN Agencies and Funds. As will-covid-19-pandemic-convince-us-cri-
by South Korea fi nancial resources become scar- tical-mental-health-dimension-peace-
building
in March (whi- cer, such partnerships - which pe- 10. https://www.unsystem.org/CEBPublic-
le not a major acekeeping is not new to - would Files/mental_health_well_being_strate-
gy_fi nal_2018_may_25th_english.pdf
TCC) - the ove- have to move away from being 11. Charles T. Hunt, Adam Day, Why CO-
rall ability of UN only anecdotal and ad hoc, but VID-19 offers a chance to transform
Missions to fulfi ll rather become the new normal. UN peacekeeping, 28 May 2020https://
theconversation.com/why-covid-19-of-
their mandates fers-a-chance-to-transform-un-peaceke-
would be heavily eping-139416
compromised. As 12. Peacekeeping in the shadow of CO-
VID-19 era, Richard Gowan and Louise
a result, Blue Hel- 1. Defi nition provided by the Center for Riis Andersen Danish Institute for Inter-
Disease Control (CDC) 2020
mets’ capacity to 2. Atul Khare, Jean-Pierre Lacroix ,29 May national Studies, June 2020, https://
assist host coun- 2020, Covid-19 and Fragile Countries: www.diis.dk/publikationer/peacekee-
ping-in-the-shadow-of-covid-19-era
tries navigate the UN Peacekeepers Must Stay the Course 13. De Coning, Cedric Examining the
diffi cult path from https://www.ispionline.it/en/pubbli- Longer-Term Effects of COVID-19 on
cazione/covid-19-and-fragile-coun-
UN Peacekeeping Operations 13 May
confl ict to pe- tries-un-peacekeepers-must-stay-cour- 2020, https://theglobalobservatory.
ace, could be se-26374 org/2020/05/examining-longer-term-ef-
greatly compromised. 3. https://www.un.org/press/en/2020/ fects-covid-19-un-peacekeeping-ope-
sc14080.doc.htm
rations/
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As suggested by Dr. Charles Hunt , 4. https://news.un.org/en/ 14. Charles T. Hunt, Adam Day, Why CO-
Non-Resident Fellow with United story/2020/04/1061092 VID-19 offers a chance to transform
UN peacekeeping, 28 May 2020https://
https://www.un.org/africarenewal/
Nations University Centre for Poli- news/coronavirus/%E2%80%9Cpro- theconversation.com/why-covid-19-of-
cy Research, the fi nancial pressu- tect-help-explain%E2%80%9D-un-pea- fers-a-chance-to-transform-un-peaceke-
cekeeping-responds-covid-19
eping-139416
res resulting from the economic re- 5. COVID-19: UN ‘remains open 15. Richard Gowan & Louise Riis Andersen,
cession caused by COVID-19 may for business’, determined to deli- What next for UN peace operations?
present the UN with an opportunity ver for the people we serve, says Danish Institute for International Studies,
to experiment diverse forms of cri- UN chief, https://news.un.org/en/ June 2020
sis management. This could inclu-
de looking into smaller-and more PICTURES:
affordable mechanisms such as li- MINUSCA
ght-weight Observer Missions and MONUSCO
UNAMID
civilian Special Political Missions, UNFICYD
as in Guinea-Bissau and Haiti. UNFICYP
Following the Secretary-Gene-
ral’s call to think about crisis ma-
nagement more holistically, in the
aftermath of COVID, peace and CATERINA PINO
security actors (peacemakers, pe- Strategic Planning Expert for
ace builders and peacekeepers) Humanitarian Action,
will need to align their program- Resilience & Peace Building
ming and, by combining politi-
cal and technical expertise, bu-

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