ABSTRACT
In post-conflict contexts where UN peacekeeping missions are established, humanitarian and development donors, policy-makers and practitioners are increasingly advocating for integrated missions. Motivated by a desire to ensure that development, humanitarian and peacekeeping agencies are mutually supportive and managed, integration is described as ‘the new reality’ for multidimensional peace operations (Campbell 2008; Cravero 2005).1 Proponents of the integrated model are convinced that a system-wide approach to UN intervention in post-conflict contexts can, by increasing predictability and lowering transaction costs associated with poor coordination, reduce the likely resumption and prolongation of armed violence.2 There appears to be a growing conviction that integrated approaches to DDR can enhance the work of the two primary UN contributors to this activity – peacekeeping operations mandated by the Security Council and UNDP.3
