Improving UN developmental Co‐ordination within peace missions

Abstract

The work of the United Nations in development is essential to the success of the UN in its various non‐development missions. Most important are the links between development and peace. This article reviews the challenge, indeed the crisis, facing UN peace missions and, above all, their developmental components. In so doing it identifies some critical elements that could constitute an essential agenda for peacebuilding; it suggests some basic principles that would help in the design of more appropriate responses; and it seeks to measure performance against these principles, and to identify mechanisms that would assist in their implementation. Finally, it addresses the complex issue of financing development within peace missions.