Although the Security Council has taken steps to streamline mandates in response to the 2015 recommendation of the High-level Independent Panel on Peace Operations (HIPPO) to prioritize and sequence these mandated tasks, efforts to construct a succession of tasks are hindered by the non-linear nature of conflict transformation.3 As such, a series of studies conducted by the Security Council Report. [...] In some cases, the Security Council has conferred tasks verging on peace enforcement and counterinsurgency on missions as in the cases of the UN Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO) 2 At the same time, the combination of certain mandated tasks can also lead to perverse outcomes, as recent academic research has suggested that the split focus of many c. [...] The design of these non-UN peace enforcement and counterterrorism operations must avoid the pitfalls of overly securitized interventions of the past in which the prioritization of securitized responses at the expense of pursuing political solutions has only served to exacerbate grievances and prolong violence.6 Fostering comprehensive and flexible approaches In 2015, HIPPO highlighted the need for. [...] One way that friction between peace operations and country teams can be prevented is for the planning and design of peace operations to be informed by a better understanding of the existing expertise of the UN country team and having missions draw upon the civilian capacities already available within the UN system instead of duplicating tasks. [...] Planning for the eventual mission exit should be part of planning from the very start of the mission to help normalize such processes and reduce the likelihood of a negative reaction from either the Security Council, the parties to the conflict, or local populations.
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