Themes

The focus of Challenges Forum 2009 was A New Horizon for Peace Operations Partnerships – What are the next steps?. The aim of the session was to address the future of peace operations, identify the challenges, and generate recommendations and solutions for the involved actors, national and international, to consider for the way ahead. Within the overall theme the Forum discussed: A New Partnership for UN Peace Operations – What are the Next Steps; Multidimensional Peace Operations – New Issues and the Need for New Partners; Mandate-Making and Mandate-Implementation; Enhancing and Facilitating the Partnership with T/PCCs; United Nations Effective Mission Command and Control and United Nations and Regional Arrangements Effective Mission Command and Control - Issues of Relevance for the Effective Cooperation with Partners in Action.

Challenges Forum Background Studies had been developed on the following topics:

• A Review of Peacekeeping Initiatives in 2009: Strengthening Consultation among the Security Council, Secretariat and Troop- and Police Contributing Countries; Ms Fatemeh Ziai
• Broadening the Base of UN Peacekeeping: Proposals for How the UN can Attract and Support New, Expanding and Returning Troop- and Police Contributing Countries; Ms Fatemeh Ziai
• Implications of Peacebuilding and Statebuilding in United Nations Mandates; Mr Jake Sherman and Mr Ben Tortolani
• Command and Control Arrangements in UN Peacekeeping Operations; Mr Jean-Marie Guéhenno and Mr Jake Sherman
• Providers, Platforms or Partners? Possible Roles for Peace Operations in Fighting Organized Crime; Mr James Cockayne
• Developing a Strategy for Early Peacebuilding: Priorities, Sequencing and Delivery of Rule of Law and Security-related Activities by UN Peacekeeping Operations; Fatemeh Ziai
• Multidimensional Peace Operations Concepts and Doctrine Development; Challenges Forum Co-Chairs; Maj Gen Robert Gordon