Building Bridges for Success: Rethinking Peace Operations Training for Complex Environments

In this light, the future effectiveness and success of peace operations and protection work do not ride on organizational reforms alone, nor on the development of best practices

Addressing human rights challenges and building national protection systems are crucial now that there is an increas- ing focus on prevention in the peace and security work

Since the turn of the millennium, both practice and scholarship have stressed the importance of protection of civilians as a peace- keeping priority, the

 the  European  Externa  Action  Services’  Conflict  Prevention,  Peace  Building  and  Mediation  Division,   see,

8 A/70/95- S/2015/446, Report of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations: on uniting our strengths for peace: politics, partnership and people, 17 June 2015;

UN Security Council Resolution 1325 on Women, Peace and Security (2000) was hailed as a pioneer- ing step in acknowledging the varied roles of women in conflict

Based on this, it urged member states to increase the participation of women at all levels of decision-making in these areas, including UN peace operations; to incorporate

This report considers the stance of these rising powers on a number of critical UN peace operations reform issues like conflict prevention; the principles of peacekeeping,