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Peace Operations
Explore research on the use of peace operations as a tool to help prevent mass atrocities.
External Resources
Selected informational resources on US government use of peace operations:
UN Security Council authorization of UN peace operations:
- See a UN website on the role of the UN Security Council in UN peace operations
- Examples of UN peace operations:
US funding for UN peace operations:
- Congressional Research Service brief (2022) on US funding of UN peace operations
US military support to UN peace operations - example:
US support to regional peace operations:
- US State Department fact sheet (2021) on US capacity building for peace operations
- Examples of US support to regional peace operations:
- The US State Department obligated more than $100 million from the Peacekeeping Operations account in FY2020 “to support the United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS), to include logistics, equipment, and training of troop contributing countries” for the African Union Mission in Somalia.