Abstract
The Role of UN Peace Operations in Countering Health Insecurity after COVID-19
Highlights
This Policy Insight suggests the UN must account for a diverse range of conflict drivers, including health insecurity, and that UN peace operations can play a role in countries of deployment to counter health crises
Going forward the Security Council needs to account for a diverse range of conflict drivers be they health threats, environmental degradation, food scarcity and more
Day (2020) have suggested there could be alternative models of peacekeeping where smaller missions could operate without large military components. Those alternative models could focus on a broad array of security threats that extend beyond threats of physical violence and work with communities to identify local needs
Summary
Security crises can take many forms. The UN has a multitude of violent, environmental, economic, health crises and more, to contend with through its many organs. With expectations ever growing of how the international community should be able to resolve security crises it is important that the UN is able to act in the face of security threats which go beyond physical violence and health insecurity is one example discussed here which UN peace operations could play a more central role.
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