1. Beyond Haiti: Enhancing Latin American Military and Police Contributions to UN Peacekeeping
- Author:
- Bianca Selway
- Publication Date:
- 04-2014
- Content Type:
- Policy Brief
- Institution:
- International Peace Institute
- Abstract:
- With fifteen UN peacekeeping missions already in operation and another in the Central African Republic on the horizon, UN peacekeeping continues to be in high demand. Today, DPKO deploys more than 83,000 troops, 13,000 police, and 2,000 observers, contributed voluntarily by member states. A majority of these are provided by African and South Asian member states, which together provide 74 percent of the UN's uniformed personnel. Latin America has a longstanding history of participating in UN peacekeeping, stretching back more than fifty years to some of the earliest peacekeeping operations. At present, Latin America contributes almost 7 percent of all UN troops and nearly 2 percent of UN police. Two Latin American states occupy spots in the group of top twenty uniformed contributors: Uruguay with a total of 2,164 uniformed personnel and Brazil with 1,755. Latin American contributions are predominantly military contributions (as opposed to police) to the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH), with support to missions in sub-Saharan Africa amounting to less than 2 percent of the total uniformed deployments to the region.
- Topic:
- International Cooperation, United Nations, Foreign Aid, and Peacekeeping
- Political Geography:
- Africa, South Asia, Brazil, United Nations, and Latin America