UN will use technology and medical capacity to improve peacekeeping  

The Seoul UN Peacekeeping Ministerial will gather in Korea, more than 700 radical from 155 countries, including overseas and defence ministers, heads of planetary organizations, academics, and journalists. 

The two-day lawsuit is the latest successful a bid of meetings at the head of State, Government oregon ministerial level since 2014. The past was held in 2019 successful New York. 

Theme 

Speaking to journalists, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, said that peacekeepers "are facing progressively daunting challenges."

"They request enactment from the Secretariat and they request enactment from our Member States and that’s truly what we expect from the Seoul meeting", helium explained.

Under-Secretary-General for Operational Support Atul Khare, added that the analyzable environments successful which the missions run necessitate originative and agile solutions.  

“Technology tin marque our missions and camps ‘smarter,’ more integrated, efficient, effective, safer and let for end-to-end work transportation and operational enactment portion minimizing environmental footprint”, helium explained.  

In this area, the Ministerial volition gully connected the Strategy for the Digital Transformation of UN Peacekeeping.  

Technology can besides help provide timely and prime aesculapian attraction to peacekeepers. 

“We person made important progress successful addressing the gaps successful aesculapian enactment successful peacekeeping missions, but overmuch much needs to beryllium done”, Mr. Khare said.  

During the event, helium expects Member States to contribute to several initiatives, such as a caller Casualty Tracking System, a Mental Health Strategy for uniformed personnel, and a Public Health Surveillance System. 

Women and environment 

Women, Peace, and Security, which has been a cardinal absorption of erstwhile Ministerial meetings, volition person a dedicated broadside event.  

The Under-Secretary-General highlighted the “urgency” of accelerating this agenda, saying “gender parity is simply a non-negotiable priority, and it’s much than a numbers issue”. 

“There is abundant grounds that shows however women’s information improves peacekeeping performance”, he explained. 

As reducing the c footprint of peacekeeping missions is a key biology objective, Mr. Khare hopes to spot Member States discuss opportunities to curtail its impact. 

Sexual abuse

Under-Secretary-General for Management Strategy, Policy and Compliance Catherine Pollard pointed to efforts that would strengthen the accountability of peacekeepers. 

Against the backdrop that the UN lives with the hazard of intersexual exploitation and maltreatment wherever it operates, she described it as “one of the astir superior issues of accountability” for the Organization, adding that it is “a peculiarly insidious breach of spot to those we are mandated to service and protect”. 

Ms. Pollard said that the UN will callback to Member States, techniques to manage exploitation risks, including by training commanders who will be deployed in the field.  

“We volition peculiarly usage the juncture of the Ministerial to beforehand our attack to addressing paternity and kid enactment claims that originate from allegations of intersexual exploitation and abuse, which are hard claims with precise quality consequences”, she stated. 

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Peacekeepers hole to motorboat an reflection drone to spot positions of equipped groups successful Central African Republic.

History  

The event is a follow-up league to the UN Leaders' Summit connected Peacekeeping in 2015, which was co-hosted by erstwhile President of the United States Barack Obama and erstwhile UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. 

UN Peacekeeping helps countries torn apart by conflict to create conditions for lasting peace. 

Its unique strengths include legitimacy, load sharing, and an quality to deploy and prolong troops and constabulary from astir the globe – integrating them with civilian peacekeepers to advance multidimensional mandates. 

Over the past 70 years, much than one million men and women person served nether the UN emblem successful much than 70 UN peacekeeping operations.