Project:About

Welcome to the Peacekeeping References Wiki!

Who created this website?
This website was created by Eugene Chen in September 2018.

Why does this website exist?
The United Nations is an extremely complex organization. Much of how the bureaucracy and intergovernmental processes work is based on a mix of tradition, mythology and a labyrinthine set of resolutions, regulations and rules. Compounding these challenges is the fact that navigation of official documentation is far from intuitive.

This website is intended to make it easier to understand the nuts and bolts of United Nations peacekeeping operations. This is not an exhaustive resource. its creator has taken every effort to provide references to official documents or internal policies, but this website is not an authoritative reference.

Who is this website for?
This website has its origins in a collection of post-it notes and gradually grew to include a list of commonly-referenced documents and a set of handover notes. At some point, its creator decided to translate all of these materials into a wiki format, where it would be much more easily searchable. There is little method to the madness when it comes to the order in which pages are added. The subjects covered are ones of interest to its creator.

Putting the material into a public wiki has the secondary benefit of allowing others to benefit from the information (and reducing the amount of time spent fielding questions from inside and outside the United Nations about various esoteric topics).

What does the URL mean?
"Casque bleu" is "blue helmet" in French. The blue helmet has been associated with United Nations peacekeeping operations since the deployment of the United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF) in 1956.