Chapter 3 – The Basic Principles of United Nations Peacekeeping

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Peacekeeping is guided by several principles. These include the consent of the parties to the conflict to a UN intervention and deployment; the impartiality of the missions and the individual peacekeepers as they interact with the host nation and its people; and the non-use of force by peacekeepers, except in self-defence and in defence of the mission’s mandate. Chapter 3 is focused on these fundamental principles of UN peacekeeping and how they have adapted to the shift of effort from traditional to multi-dimensional peacekeeping. But the chapter also explains and explores the differences between impartiality and neutrality, as well as the key factors of legitimacy, credibility and national and local ownership that now have the status of additional principles and which are central to the success of a UN peacekeeping mission.