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Canada’s role in peace operations has evolved over the last 50 years to meet new international challenges. As well as our ongoing participation in United Nations (UN)-led missions, Canada is increasingly playing an active role in regional or coalition missions that are mandated by the UN. Presently, Canada supports and participates in peace operations led by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union (EU) and the African Union (AU). |  |
Canada’s participation in complex, integrated peace operations is aimed at helping to provide security, stability and support to highly volatile situations and to bring about conditions for reconstruction and development. These complex peace operations encompass a range of military, diplomatic and humanitarian activities which work together closely and involve tasks as diverse as reforming justice and security systems, disarmament, demobilization and reintegration of ex-combatants and supporting humanitarian assistance operations.
Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada (DFAIT) supports initiatives through the Human Security Program which enhance international understanding of, and capacity to manage, integrated, multidisciplinary peace operations through policy development and advocacy.
For example, the Human Security Program has funded the Francophone Research Network on Peace Operations at the University of Montreal’s Centre d’études et de recherches internationales (CÉRIUM) which aims to facilitate research and dialogue on the subject of peace operations worldwide. The Network serves as a global platform and repository of information for Francophone practitioners, teachers, researchers, students, and journalists with an interest in this area.
DFAIT is also working to support complex peace operations in which Canada is engaged by deploying the appropriate range of experts. The Human Security Program funds the Canadian Resource Bank for Democracy and Human Rights (CANADEM) -- a national roster of more than 3,000 Canadian civilian experts who can respond quickly to peace operations, UN field missions and broader peacebuilding activities.
For more information, visit DFAIT's Peacekeeping Web Site.
See Also  Women, peace and security
Justice and security system reform Protection of civilians Responsibility to protect
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