Columbia International Affairs Online: Policy Briefs

CIAO DATE: 01/2014

MINUSMA: first steps, achievements and challenges

Isaline Bergamaschi

September 2013

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre

Abstract

This policy brief deals with the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Mali (MINUSMA). It explains its first achievements and the two main challenges it has faced so far: issues of leadership, including co-ordination between actors and capacities, on the one hand, and issues related to security conditions and the absence of peace, on the other. Finally, the policy brief proposes some recommendations to the actors involved – MINUSMA itself (i.e. its civilian and military personnel) and the UN member states supporting it.