When the United Nations sent an Intervention Brigade to the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), it sparked controversy in the international community over the value of such deployments for UN peace operations.
This discussion paper, The UN Intervention Brigade: Extinguishing Conflict or Adding Fuel to the Flames, outlines several key conditions which can help determine whether this model can be successfully deployed as a tool for civilian protection outside the DRC context. The analysis focuses on four key considerations which need to be examined in order to determine if the success of the intervention brigade in the DRC can be replicated—and its failures avoided—in other contexts.
