Peace Operations
This working group is no longer active. For more information, feel free to contact Fergus Watt at ferguswatt@worldfederalistscanada.org or (613) 232-0647 to learn more about the former group or peace operations. See below for information about what the group used to do.
Many of the organizations that had participated in the Peace Operations Working Group
(POWG) have joined the “Canadians for Peacekeeping” (Canadiens et Canadiennes pour
une participation accrue aux opérations de maintien de la paix de l’ONU). For more
information on this campaign, see http://peacekeepingcanada.com/.
The Peace Operations Working Group (POWG) collaborated on in-depth research and public and NGO-Government dialogue on peace operations to facilitate Canadian civil society involvement in the formulation of policy on peace operations and in the identification of options for policy implementation. The POWG also encouraged governments to take practical steps to increase the coherence and effectiveness of peace operations in each of their civilian, civilian-police and military aspects; and to promote peace operations as an important instrument of Canadian international policies.
Fact Sheet
CANADA’S CONTRIBUTION TO UN PEACEKEEPING
The Peace Operations Working Group published an end-of-decade review of Canada's role in UN peacekeeping. The fact-sheet examines Canada's current military deployments (updated in 2009), its rank internationally among contributors to UN Peacekeeping, its military and police contributions to peacekeeping and its contributions to the UN peacekeeping budget. All the facts are analyzed in the context of unprecedented demand for UN peacekeepers.
Peace Operations Blog
Visit the POWG BLOG and check out some of what the working group's activities and general developments on peace operations were.
Multimedia
In the cause of Peace: Honouring 60 years of UN Peacekeeping
United Nations-2009
