Renato Mariani, of the Policy and Mediation Division in the UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA), explains what UN Special Political Missions are and how they support conflict prevention, peacemaking and peacebuilding.
In This Story: United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security.
At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; with the addition of South Sudan in 2011, membership is now 193, representing almost all of the world’s sovereign states.