ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the role of intelligence in modern-day peacekeeping and, more specifically, how satellite imagery fits into that role. It begins with the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre. The United Nations must now reflect on its earlier information-gathering attempts and consider the possibility of creating a permanent agency for the purpose of collecting and analyzing information and turning it into intelligence. Intelligence is an indispensable good. The UN should be more open and assertive about the need for information when carrying out its operations. In addition to this, member states should be more agreeable to the establishment of a UN intelligence branch. The use of civilian police has been around since the time of the Congo but their use is now becoming more acceptable. It is also becoming more desirable because there are countries that will not tolerate one military death on a peacekeeping mission.
