Abstract
In mid-1995, Britain provided over 10,000 United Nations (UN) peacekeepers, more than any other country in the world. By 1996 this number had plummeted to a few hundred and has been consistently below 400 since 2005. In September 2015 Prime Minister David Cameron announced that the UK would deploy up to 370 British troops to UN-mandated peace operations in Somalia and South Sudan, more than doubling the UK’s personnel commitment to UN-mandated operations. Combined with the withdrawal of UK forces from Afghanistan, the release of the 2015 Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), and the UK’s hosting of the next Leaders’ Summit on Peacekeeping in September 2016, this decision has intensified debates about whether and how the UK should increase its participation in UN peace operations. This report reflects on how UN peace operations could be integrated into UK foreign policy and makes a case for why Britain should enhance its participation in UN peace operations.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Oxford Research Group |
| Commissioning body | Oxford Research Group |
| Number of pages | 25 |
| Publication status | Published - 26 May 2016 |
Bibliographical note
Some rights reserved. This report is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Licence.Keywords
- Peacekeeping
- Peacebuilding
- United Nations
- United Kingdom
- Defence
- foreign policy
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David Curran
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