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Workshop on Multidimensional Peace Operations Concepts and Doctrine Development

9-11 November 2009

Challenges Partners are undertaking work on concepts and doctrine development, operationalizing the three core businesses of United Nations peacekeeping as stated in the United Nations Principles and Guidelines document, which under the leadership of the United Nations Department of Peacekeping Operations the Challenges Partnership was actively engaged in contributing to.

The Challenges Partners decided to continue their effort within multidimensional peace operations concepts and doctrine development at the Partners Meeting in Paris in October 2008. The Partnership met to initiate the workshop series in Carlisle in January 2009 and formed working groups for each of the three core businesses of United Nations peacekeeping. 

The following Challenges Partners co-chair the working groups: 

1. The National Defence University, Pakistan and the Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, United States; 
2. The Pearson Peacekeeping Centre, Canada and the United Service Institution of India; and
3. The Asia Pacific Civil-Military Centre of Excellence, Australia and the Institute for Security Studies, South Africa.

In order to ensure that the results set out by the broader Partnership in Paris and Carlisle would be achieved, the Co-Chairs and Challenges Senior Advisers and Coordinators met in Stockholm in June and September 2009.

Challenges Partners met 9-11 November for a workshop in New York, in advance of the Challenges Forum 2009, to assess progress to date of the concepts and doctrine development work, to discuss its substance and format, to review its desired end-state and products, and to determine required further work and dead-lines.

Challenges Senior Adviser Maj Gen Robert Gordon has developed a paper on details of the Work to Date of the Challenges Partners' Concepts and Doctrine Development Project.