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1 results foundAuthor: United Nations Environment Programme Title: Greening the Blue Helmets: Environment, Natural Resources and UN Peacekeeping Operations Summary: This report aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how peacekeeping operations affect and are affected by natural resources and environmental conditions. The report is divided into two main parts. Part 1 reviews the environmental management of peacekeeping operations and showcases good practices, technologies and behaviours that have already been adopted. Part 2 examines the role that peacekeeping operations have played in stabilizing countries where violent conflicts have been financed by natural resources – including diamonds, gold, timber and oil – or driven by grievances over their ownership, access and control. It has been developed by UNEP in consultation with a number of international experts and nongovernmental organizations. In particular, it draws from valuable inputs from the Swedish Defence Research Agency, the International Institute for Sustainable Development and Global Witness. In the process of conducting the analyses, extensive consultations were conducted with the Department for Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) and the Department for Field Support (DFS) at both the field and headquarter levels. The report is a component of ongoing technical collaboration between UNEP, DPKO and DFS, to increase the consideration given to natural resources and the environment in UN peacekeeping efforts. It has been developed in the context of UNEP’s mandate to “keep under review the world environmental situation in order to ensure that emerging environmental problems of wide international significance receive appropriate and adequate consideration by governments.” This report has been open to peer review by all of the current UN peacekeeping missions as well as to a selected number of international experts, academics and non-governmental organizations. The development process for this report has also been supported by UNEP’s Expert Group on Conflict and Peacebuilding. This work has been financed by the Government of Finland as a component of UNEP’s Environmental Cooperation for Peacebuilding programme. Details: Nairobi, Kenya: United Nations Environment Programme, 2012. 134p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed September 4, 2012 at http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/UNEP_greening_blue_helmets.pdf Year: 2012 Country: International URL: http://postconflict.unep.ch/publications/UNEP_greening_blue_helmets.pdf Shelf Number: 126252 Keywords: Natural ResourcesPeacekeeping Operations |