Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Kenyan police officer, part of a U.N.-backed multinational force, patrols a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in December 2024.

From election support in the Central African Republic to patrols in the disputed Abyei region, UN peacekeepers are operating ...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -United Nations peacekeeping missions are under severe financial pressure and U.S. cuts could limit their ability to protect civilians in places like South Sudan and the ...

A Journey of a Thousand Miles: Peacekeepers follows three women in an all female, predominantly Muslim unit of police officers sent to post-earthquake Haiti as UN Peacekeepers for one year. The ...

A central element of international conflict response, UN peacekeeping provides essential security and support to millions of people as well as to fragile institutions emerging from conflict.

Each September, the United Nations General Assembly kicks off its annual session with high-level meetings and pomp and circumstance in New York. This is the forum where the world’s countries come to ...

It has become clear that a Ukrainian “victory” that results in recovery of the territory lost to Russia since 2014 is unlikely. As the conflict in Ukraine drags on, with negotiations for even a ...

China’s unusual status as a top contributor of both funds and troops to the UN’s peacekeeping program has stirred suspicion that Beijing uses the peacekeeping program to protect its economic assets ...

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 ...

On September 18, China’s State Council Information Office published a white paper on China’s peacekeeping forces at the United Nations titled, “China’s Armed Forces: 30 Years of U.N. Peacekeeping ...

The United Nations will observe 60 years of peacekeeping operations on 29 May 2008, the annual observance of the International Day of UN Peacekeepers, by paying tribute to all peacekeepers who have ...

Over the last thirty years, China’s involvement in peacekeeping has grown dramatically. In 1990, China provided only five personnel in total to all peacekeeping operations. Just three decades later, ...