Policing For Peace: The Role Of United Nations Police In Capacity Building And Law Enforcement
Sakshi Dwivedi, Chhatrapati Shahu Ji Maharaj University, Kanpur
The aim of this research is not just study the evolution of United Nations Police but also to analyse why, how and by whom they have emerged as one of the most important and essential components of UN Peacekeeping operations.
Chapter 1
Background
Peacekeeping is the most well known instrument of the United Nations to manage with conflict situations. The UN Police have become an essential part of the UN peacekeeping mission in Post-Cold War. Their importance has evolved over the years. For instance, only 1,600 UN Police personnel acted in UN peacekeeping operations in 1995, by 2000 the number immensely to 6,662 in next operations and, at present, there are 13,334 UN Police personnel serving in twelve UN peacekeeping missions. The peacekeeping operations in the post-Cold War were different from traditional peacekeeping. The conventional UN peacekeeping operations were set up in reaction to interterritorial conflicts with the consent of host-country to manage status quo with the borders of alarming states in terms of orchestrate peace making efforts around world. These missions mainly have armed forces as they were adequately skilled and trained to handle the borders. With the completion of the Cold War, the international district has been increasingly questioned by the urge to clear up interterritorial conflicts which obstruct insides of security and administration of the concerned states. The interterritorial conflict is due to the incapacity and weakens the strength of a state to address the problems of some sections of its nations, or the war crimes of a oppressive regime nation against its own people, or the missing of national authority. All this conclude in the low appearance of civil services, and political over the nation passes elsewhere such as to the warlords. In all these conditions, the major sufferer of violence are the peoples .
