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The Role of UN Peace Operations in Countering Health Insecurity after COVID‐19

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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. Insecurity is experienced in a variety of different ways in a complex world where threats are multifaceted. COVID‐19 is merely the latest health crisis which has impacted populations around the globe in both developed and developing countries. However, UN peace operations have not typically played a major role in addressing health insecurity nor have they undergone any major shifts in their focus to provide direct health‐related assistance during the COVID‐19 pandemic. With health insecurity likely to persist, there should not need to be a global pandemic for the UN Security Council to use peace operations to undertake further preventative work in this area.

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  • Alexander Gilder, 2022. "The Role of UN Peace Operations in Countering Health Insecurity after COVID‐19," Global Policy, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 13(2), pages 271-280, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:glopol:v:13:y:2022:i:2:p:271-280
    DOI: 10.1111/1758-5899.13056
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