First Steps Towards a Police Doctrine for UN Peace Operations (2001-2006)

As a response to the rapid growth of the role and numbers of United Nations (UN) police in peace operations, the Secretariat’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) has started to develop formal doctrine to guide the work of its police officers in missions around the world. Based on published and unpublished sources as well as a series of interviews with UN officials and external experts, this paper examines the establishment of an organisational infrastructure for doctrine development within DPKO in the 2001 – 2006 period and the key factors that have contributed to the success or failure of several recent doctrine development processes.

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