Research Briefing
Britain’s role in UN peacekeeping operations
The United Kingdom has long been an active contributor to UN peacekeeping missions – operations led by the United Nation’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO). The UK is the fifth-highest provider of assessed contributions to the UN peacekeeping budget (2013-15), behind the US, Japan, France and Germany. There have been 68 UN peacekeeping missions since 1948;