The role of UN Peacekeeping Missions in achieving sustainable peace:

The presence of MINUSTAH in Haiti

Abstract

United Nations (UN) peacekeeping missions have undergone several changes from the beginning of their implementation to the present day. For a long time, they were the UN’s preferred means of carrying out one of its main purposes: to establish peace and guarantee international security. However, the growing complexity and multidimensionality of internal conflicts in recent decades has hampered the implementation of peace missions, which have generally been unable to ensure the establishment of sustainable peace in the countries where they operate. The United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) was a stabilization mission authorized by the Security Council under Resolution 1542, mandated to stabilize the situation of political, social and security chaos in Haiti following the coup d’état in 2004. Through a historical and political framework of Haiti, the aim is to reflect on the peace process attempted in the country during the implementation of MINUSTAH between 2004 and 2017. The objective is to evaluate the mission’s successes and failures through an analysis of its mandate and
actions, paying special attention to the problems and controversies that characterized it. The study of one of the most extensive external interventions in Haiti is fundamental to understanding the country’s current reality and the methods adopted by peace missions to achieve peace.