Lessons Learned UN Peace Support Operations

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Lessons Learned UNPeace Support
Operations

• Requirements Based Training Education for PSO
  Seminar
• Phnom Penh, Cambodia
• 2-6 July 2007

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Lessons Learned UN Peace Support
Operations Presentation Objectives

• Review UN PSO Lessons Learned process
• Explore UN HQ Lessons Learned mandate
• Explore Regional Lessons Learned efforts
• Explore national Lessons Learned efforts
• Explore ad hoc Lessons Learned efforts
• View example of UN agencies Lessons Learned
  efforts
• Examine future UN Doctrine - lessons learned
  based
• Appraise the current lessons learned situation
• Deduce some possible ways to optimize benefits
  for all

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Un Peace Support Operations Lessons
Learned

• What are they?
• Are they important?
• How are they created?
• Who benefits from them?
• Are they strategic/operational/tactical in
  nature?
• What do we do with them?
• What should we be doing with them?
• If I do not have any, how do I get some?

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Starting Point
Participant Perspectives

• What are Lessons Learned?
• Are they important?

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Lessons Learned Process
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Lessons Learned Process
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Gathering Data From Recent
Mission Experience

• Who does it?
• UN
• Ad Hoc Arrangements (Mission)
• System Responsibilities (DPKO)
• Regional Organizations
• Formal Structures (NATO)
• AD Hoc international arrangements (Challenges
  Project)
• National
• Formal structures (Department of Defense)
• Academic institutes
• Informal structures (Seminars)
• How is it done?
• Leadership Reports (Secretary General Reports on
  Missions)
• Mission/Formation/Unit After Action Reports
• Specific Survey/Interview Processes
• Seminars involving Parties concerned with a
  specific topic

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Lessons Learned Process
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Data Analysis Identification
Key Lessons Learned

• Who does it?
• UN
• Missions (operational level)
• DPKO (strategic operational levels)
• Regional Organizations
• Formal Structures (NATO) (strategic operational
  level)
• AD Hoc arrangements
  (strategic, operational tactical levels)
• National (strategic/operational/tactical levels)
• Formal structures (Department of Defense)
• Academic institutes
• Occasional events (Seminars/workshops)

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Lessons Learned Process
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Taking Appropriate Action With Lessons Learned

• Where might these lessons learned have an
  impact?
• Training
• Education
• Doctrine
• Who implements action?
• Operational/Training Staff
• Specialist Lessons Learned Centers
• Peacekeeping Centers
• Is time an important factor?
• Critical issues should be addressed in a timely
  manner
• How are the lessons best packaged for use?
• Depends on the user /use (examples later)

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Lessons Learned In UN HQ PBPU in
DPKO
OFFICE of the USG
Mine Action Service
Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit
Change Management
Integrated Training Service
Executive Office
Office of Operations
Police Division
Office of Mission Support
Military Division
Africa Division
Military Planning Service
Europe and Latin America Division
Administrative Support Division
Current Military Operations Service
Asia and Middle East Division
Force Generation Service
Logistics Support Division
Situation Centre
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Peacekeeping Best Practices Unit (PBPU)

• Role
  Assist in
  planning, conduct, management and support of
  peacekeeping operations by learning from
  experience, problem solving and transferring best
  practices in United Nations peacekeeping
• Major Activities
• Knowledge management
• Policy analysis development
• Lessons learned
• Goal
  Develop
  support culture of best practices in UN
  peacekeeping by helping to establish develop
  mechanisms/working habits to share knowledge

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Examples Of UN DPKO Products Peacekeeping Best
Practices Unit
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PBPU Web-Site Library
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PBPU Library

• Collection of documents relating to
  peacekeeping operations - PBPU, other UN
  bodies external organizations
• Facilitates finding/sharing peacekeeping
  information
• Centralized repository for peacekeeping
  operations literature

Posting of external documents does not constitute
endorsement by the United Nations
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PBPU Library
27 Principle Topics
677 Documents

• Child Protection
• Civil Society
• Civilian Police
• Conduct Discipline
• DDR
• Elections
• Gender
• HIV / AIDS
• Human Rights
• Humanitarian
• Military (20)
• Mine Action
• Mission Administration Support
• Peace Processes Agreements

• Peacekeeping General (95)
• Peacekeeping Reform
• Post Conflict Reconstruction Recovery
• Public Information Media
• Regional Organizations Africa
• Regional Organizations Europe
• Rule of Law - Legal Judicial Systems
• Rule of Law Corrections
• Rule of Law - Transitional Justice
• Sexual Exploitation Abuse
• Staff Security
• Trafficing
• Transitional Administration

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Example of a Regional Organization
Lessons Learned Centre
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Example of a NATO Lessons
Learned Product
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Another Example Of A Regional
Lessons Learned Product
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Example of a National
Lessons Learned Centre
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Example of a National
Lessons Learned Product
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An Example of an Ad Hoc
Lessons Learned Event Product
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Example Ad Hoc Organization
Lessons Learned Product
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An Ad Hoc Project
for PSO Lessons Learned
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Example Of Challenges Project
Lessons Learned Products
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Example of a UN Agency
Lessons Learned Product
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Capstone Doctrine for
UN Peacekeeping Operations

• Being drafted
• Reflects major lessons learned past 60 years of
  UN peacekeeping
• Draws on landmark Secretary-General reports
• Reflects pertinent resolutions statements of
  the UN principal organs

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Preface
Capstone Doctrine for
UN Peacekeeping Operations

• The document does not override the peacekeeping
  doctrines of individual Member States and does
  not address any military tasks techniques and
  procedures , which remain a prerogative of
  individual Member States

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DPKO Policy GuidanceFramework
1000 Series
Capstone Doctrine
2000 Series
HQ Support to Ops
3000 Series Management
Integration of Ops
4000 Series
Field Ops
5000 Series
Field Ops Support
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1000 Series
Capstone Doctrine
Dotted lines indicate possible document
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2000 Series
Headquarters Support to
Operations
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3000 Series
Management Integration of Ops
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4000 Series
Field Operations
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5000 Series
Field Operations Support
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An Overview
Current Lessons Learned
Approach

• Few standardized approaches to gathering/analyzing
  data in a timely manner
• Significant lessons learned materials produced
• Lessons learned products very different
• Difficult to find many agencies' lessons learned
• Central UN repository for lessons learned
  effective?
• Many lessons learned are not available to all
• Lessons are gathered are they really learned?

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To Optimize Potential BenefitsPSO Lessons
Learned

• Obvious Deductions
• Need better access for all to everyones Lessons
  Learned in Peace Support Operations
• Need better global management of the overall
  peace support operations lessons learned process
  its products
• Need to reduce time lag between events lessons
  learned in todays PKO environment

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A Realist View

• Lessons Learned

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A Realist View

• Lessons to be Learned

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Questions
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Lessons Learned UN
Peace Support Operations