Peace and Security are not the same thing

This blog post looks at a recent agreement between the UN Department of Peace Operations and the UN Office of Counter-terrorism. It interrogates why peace operations and counter-terrorism efforts have been kept seperate until now and notes some of the key challenges that might emerge if peacekeeping and counter-terrorism were to become too entwined. It includes that adding counter-terrorism tasks to UN peacekeeping mandates will likely make an already difficult job much harder.