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{{Short description|Department of the Secretariat of the United Nations}}
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| name = Department of Political Affairs
| image_size = 120px
| image = United Nations HQ - New York City.jpg
| name = Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
| caption = [[United Nations Headquarters]]
| type = Department of the [[United Nations Secretariat|Secretariat]]
| map = UN Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs logo.svg
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| acronyms = '''DPA'''
| type = Department of the Secretariat
| head = '''Under-Secretary-General''' [[Rosemary DiCarlo]]
| abbreviation = DPPA
| leader_title = Head
| leader_name = ''Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs'' – [[Rosemary DiCarlo]]
| status = Active
| status = Active
| established = 1992
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| website = https://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/
| website = [https://dppa.un.org/en dppa.un.org/en]
| parent = United Nations Secretariat
| parent_organization = [[United Nations Secretariat]]
| subsidiaries =
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[[File:United Nations HQ - New York City.jpg|thumb|right|The Department of Political Affairs is headquartered at the Secretariat in New York City]]
The '''United Nations Department of Political Affairs''' ('''DPA''') is a department of the [[United Nations Secretariat|Secretariat]] of the [[United Nations]] (UN) with responsibility for monitoring and assessing global political developments and advising and assisting the [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|UN Secretary General]] and his envoys in the peaceful prevention and resolution of conflict around the world. The department manages field-based political missions in Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East, and has in recent years been increasing its professional capacities in conflict mediation and preventive diplomacy. DPA also oversees UN electoral assistance to Member States of the organization. Established in 1992, the department's responsibilities also include providing secretariat support to the [[United Nations Security Council|UN Security Council]] and two standing committees created by the General Assembly concerning the Rights of the Palestinian People and Decolonization.

The '''United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs''' ('''DPPA''') is a department of the [[United Nations Secretariat|Secretariat]] of the [[United Nations]] (UN) with responsibility for monitoring and assessing global political developments and advising and assisting the [[Secretary-General of the United Nations|UN Secretary General]] and his envoys in the peaceful prevention and resolution of conflict around the world. The department manages field-based political missions in Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East, and has been increasing its professional capacities in conflict mediation and preventive diplomacy. DPPA also oversees UN electoral assistance to Member States of the organization. Established in 1992, the department's responsibilities also include providing secretariat support to the [[United Nations Security Council|UN Security Council]] and two standing committees created by the General Assembly concerning the Rights of the Palestinian People and Decolonization. DPPA is based at the [[UN Headquarters]] in New York City.


==Staffing==
==Staffing==
* [[Rosemary DiCarlo]] {{USA}} – Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs
* [[Rosemary DiCarlo]] – Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
* [[Tayé-Brook Zerihoun]] {{ETH}} – Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs
* [[Oscar Fernandez-Taranco]] – Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support
* [[Miroslav Jenča]] {{SVK}} – Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs
* [[Bintou Keita]] – Assistant Secretary-General for Africa, DRC lead
* [[Miroslav Jenča]] – Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and Americas
* [[Mohamed Khaled Khiari]] – Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific


On 28 March 2018, [[UN Secretary-General]] [[António Guterres]] announced the appointment of [[Rosemary DiCarlo]] of the [[United States]], President of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, [[Yale University]], as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs.
On 28 March 2018, [[UN Secretary-General]] [[António Guterres]] announced the appointment of [[Rosemary DiCarlo]] of the United States, President of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, [[Yale University]], as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. DiCarlo succeeded [[Jeffrey D. Feltman]] of the United States, who completed his assignment on 31 March 2018.{{fact|date=October 2023}}


==Former Under-Secretaries-General==
Ms. DiCarlo succeeds [[Jeffrey D. Feltman]] of the United States, who completes his assignment on 31 March 2018. The Secretary-General is deeply grateful for Mr. Feltman’s dedicated, inspirational leadership of the Department of Political Affairs and his diplomatic skills in exercising the good offices of the Secretary-General to defuse crises and identify just and durable political solutions around the world.
This table lists the former [[Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations|Under-Secretaries-General]] (USGs) who served:


* under the ''Department of Political and Security Council Affairs'' (1952–1992)
Mr. Feltman’s tenure coincided with dramatic developments across the international landscape, giving rise to intense demands on the United Nations. Regardless of the challenge, the Secretary-General knew that he could always turn to Mr. Feltman for sound advice, creative thinking and trenchant analysis. Mr. Feltman’s support in giving new impetus to the prevention agenda, not least by strengthening the Department of Political Affairs’ capacity for mediation, was indispensable.
* under the ''Department of Political Affairs'' (1992–2019)
* under the ''Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs'' (2019''–'')


{| class="wikitable"
Ms. DiCarlo brings more than 35 years of experience in public service and academia. During her distinguished career with the United States Department of State, she served, inter alia, as Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations with the rank and status of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. In that capacity, she represented the United States at the Security Council, General Assembly and other United Nations bodies.
! colspan="4" | Former heads of DPPA and DPPA predecessors<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://undocs.org/en/A/66/380|title=A/66/380 - E - A/66/380|website=undocs.org|page=42|access-date=2019-05-13}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://lib-unique.un.org/DPI/DHL/unique.nsf/94d3d5968c64ba7185256b1f00638c35/07916c0fb4bfc80a85256c1700701488?OpenDocument|title=DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS (DPA) AND ITS PREDECESSORS : CHART|date=1992|website=lib-unique.un.org|publisher=UN-I-QUE (UN Info Quest) - United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190513134547/https://lib-unique.un.org/DPI/DHL/unique.nsf/94d3d5968c64ba7185256b1f00638c35/07916c0fb4bfc80a85256c1700701488?OpenDocument|archive-date=13 May 2019|access-date=2019-05-13}}</ref>
|-
![[Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations|Under-Secretary-General]]
!Country of nationality
!Years served
![[Secretary-General of the United Nations|UN Secretary-General]]
|-
|Konstantin Zinchenko
|rowspan="13" | {{USSR}}
|1952
|[[Trygve Lie]]
|-
|Ilya S. Tchernychev
|1953–1954
| rowspan="4" |[[Dag Hammarskjöld]]
|-
|Dragoslav Protich|Dragoslav Protitch
|1955–1957
|-
|[[Anatoly Dobrynin|Anatoly F. Dobrynin]]
|1958-1959
|-
|Georgy Arkadev
|1960–1961
|-
|E.D. Kiselyv
|1962
| rowspan="4" |[[U Thant]]
|-
|V.P. Suslov
|1963–1964
|-
|Alexei E. Nesterenko
|1965–1967
|-
|Leonid N. Kutakov
|1968–1972
|-
|[[Arkady N. Shevchenko]]
|1973–1977
| rowspan="2" |[[Kurt Waldheim]]
|-
|Mikhail D. Sytenko
|1978–1980
|-
|Viacheslav A. Ustinov
|1981–1986
| rowspan="2" |[[Javier Pérez de Cuéllar]]
|-
|Vasily S. Safronchuk
|1987–1991
|-
| colspan="4" | 1 March 1992: '''The''' '''Department of Political Affairs''' ('''DPA''') '''is formed.''' DPA absorbs the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, the Office for Political and General Assembly Affairs and Secretariat Services (OPGS), and the Office for Special Political Questions, Regional Cooperation, Decolonization and Trusteeship (SPQRCDT).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://undocs.org/A/46/882|title=Restructuring of the Secretariat of the Organization. Note by the Secretary-General|date=21 February 1992|website=undocs.org|id=A/46/882|access-date=2019-05-14}}</ref>
|-
|[[Vladimir Petrovsky|Vladimir F. Petrovsky]]
|{{flag|Russia}}
|1992–1993{{efn | USG Vladimir F. Petrovsky jointly headed the newly-created DPA with USG James O.C Jonah, whose Office for Special Political Questions, Regional Cooperation, Decolonization and Trusteeship merged into DPA.<ref>[https://search.archives.un.org/downloads/united-nations-department-of-political-affairs-1992-present.pdf "Summary of AG-021 United Nations Department of Political Affairs (1992-present)"]</ref>}}
| rowspan="3" |[[Boutros Boutros-Ghali]]
|-
|James O.C. Jonah
|{{flag|Sierra Leone}}
|1992–1994{{efn | 1992-1993: USG James O.C. Jonah jointly headed the newly-created DPA with USG Vladimir F. Petrovsky. From 1993-1994, he co-headed DPA with USG Marrack Goulding.<ref>https://search.archives.un.org/downloads/united-nations-department-of-political-affairs-1992-present.pdf "Summary of AG-021 United Nations Department of Political
Affairs (1992-present)"</ref>}}
|-
|[[Marrack Goulding]]
| rowspan="2" |{{flag|United Kingdom}}
|1993–1997
|-
|[[Kieran Prendergast]]
|1997–2005
| rowspan="2" |[[Kofi Annan]]
|-
|[[Ibrahim Gambari]]
|{{flag|Nigeria}}
|2005–2007
|-
|[[B. Lynn Pascoe]]
|rowspan="3" | {{flag|United States}}
|2007–2012
|[[Ban Ki-moon]]
|-
|[[Jeffrey D. Feltman]]
|2012–2018
|[[Ban Ki-moon]]


[[António Guterres]]
Prior assignments included Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for European and Eurasian Affairs, and Director for United Nations Affairs at the National Security Council in Washington, D.C. Her overseas tours took her to the United States Embassies in Moscow and Oslo.
|-

|[[Rosemary DiCarlo|Rosemary A. DiCarlo]]
Ms. DiCarlo graduated from Brown University with a B.A., M.A. and Ph.D. in comparative literature, as well as Slavic languages and literature. She speaks French and Russian.
|2018–present

|[[António Guterres]]
==Former Under-Secretaries-General==
|}
* [[B. Lynn Pascoe]] – 2007–2012
* [[Ibrahim Gambari]] – 2005–2007
* [[Kieran Prendergast]] – 1998–2005
* [[Marrack Goulding]] – 1993–1997
* [[James O.C. Jonah]] – 1992–1994
* [[Vladimir F. Petrovsky]] – 1992
* [[Vasilly S. Safronchuk]] – 1987–1992
* [[Viacheslav A. Ustinov]] – 1981–1986
* [[Mikhail D. Sytenko]] – 1978–1981
* [[Arkady N. Shevchenko]] – 1973–1978
* [[Leonid N. Kutakov]] – 1968–1973
* [[Alexei E. Nesterenko]] – 1965–1968
* [[V.P. Suslov]] – 1963–1965
* [[E.D. Kiselyv]] – 1962–1963
* [[Georgy Arkadev]] – 1960–1962
* [[Dragoslav Protich]] – 1954–1957
* [[Ilya Tchernychev]] – 1953–1954
* [[Konstantin Zinchenko]] – 1949–1953
* [[Arkady Sobolev]] – 1946–1949


==Field missions==
==Field missions==
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*UNSOM, [[United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia]]
*UNSOM, [[United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia]]
In Asia:
In Asia:
*UNAMA, [[United Nations Mission in Afghanistan]]
*UNAMA, [[United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan]]
*UNRCCA, [[United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia]]
*UNRCCA, [[United Nations Regional Centre for Preventive Diplomacy in Central Asia]]
In the Middle East:
In the Middle East:
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* [[The United Nations Mission in Colombia]]
* [[The United Nations Mission in Colombia]]
These DPA-led field operations are headed by senior representatives of the Secretary-General and provide a forward platform for preventive diplomacy and other activities across a range of disciplines, to help prevent and resolve conflict or to build lasting peace in nations emerging from civil wars. The peace-building offices, currently active in Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, the Central African Republic and Sierra Leone aim to help nations consolidate peace through comprehensive peace-building strategies developed and carried out in coordination with national actors and U.N. development and humanitarian entities on the ground.
These DPA-led field operations are headed by senior representatives of the Secretary-General and provide a forward platform for preventive diplomacy and other activities across a range of disciplines, to help prevent and resolve conflict or to build lasting peace in nations emerging from civil wars. The peace-building offices, currently active in Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, the Central African Republic and Sierra Leone aim to help nations consolidate peace through comprehensive peace-building strategies developed and carried out in coordination with national actors and U.N. development and humanitarian entities on the ground.
Political missions are part of a continuum of UN peace operations working in different stages of the conflict cycle. In some instances, following the signing of peace agreements, political missions overseen by the Department of Political Affairs during the stage of peace negotiations have been replaced by peacekeeping missions. In other instances, U.N. peacekeeping operations have given way to special political missions overseeing longer term peace-building activities.
Political missions are part of a continuum of UN peace operations working in different stages of the conflict cycle. In some instances, following the signing of peace agreements, political missions overseen by the Department of Political Affairs during the stage of peace negotiations have been replaced by peacekeeping missions. In other instances, U.N. peacekeeping operations have given way to special political missions overseeing longer-term peace-building activities.


'''Good Offices missions'''
'''Good Offices missions'''
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==See also==
==See also==
{{Portal|Politics}}
{{portal|United Nations}}
*[[United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121106033748/http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/undpa/main/about/e_newsletter E-Newsletter of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs]
*[[United Nations Secretariat]]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110109014254/http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/undpa/news Print Newsletter of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs]

==Notes==
{{notelist}}
<references />


==External links==
==External links==
*Records of [https://search.archives.un.org/united-nations-department-of-political-affairs-1992-present the United Nations Department of Political Affairs (1992-present)] at the United Nations Archives
*Records of [https://search.archives.un.org/united-nations-office-for-special-political-affairs-1955-1991 the United Nations Office for Special Political Affairs (1955-1991)] at the United Nations Archives
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20121106033748/http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/undpa/main/about/e_newsletter E-Newsletter of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20110109014254/http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/undpa/news Print Newsletter of the United Nations Department of Political Affairs]
*[https://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ UN Department of Political Affairs]
*[https://www.un.org/Depts/dpa/ UN Department of Political Affairs]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101020131019/http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/undpa/map Map: UN Political and Peacebuilding Missions]
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20101020131019/http://www.un.org/wcm/content/site/undpa/map Map: UN Political and Peacebuilding Missions]
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*[http://peacemaker.un.org UN Peacemaker website for peacemaking professionals]
*[http://peacemaker.un.org UN Peacemaker website for peacemaking professionals]


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Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
AbbreviationDPPA
Formation1992; 32 years ago (1992)
TypeDepartment of the Secretariat
Legal statusActive
Head
Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs – Rosemary DiCarlo
Parent organization
United Nations Secretariat
Websitedppa.un.org/en
The Department of Political Affairs is headquartered at the Secretariat in New York City

The United Nations Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) is a department of the Secretariat of the United Nations (UN) with responsibility for monitoring and assessing global political developments and advising and assisting the UN Secretary General and his envoys in the peaceful prevention and resolution of conflict around the world. The department manages field-based political missions in Africa, Central Asia, and the Middle East, and has been increasing its professional capacities in conflict mediation and preventive diplomacy. DPPA also oversees UN electoral assistance to Member States of the organization. Established in 1992, the department's responsibilities also include providing secretariat support to the UN Security Council and two standing committees created by the General Assembly concerning the Rights of the Palestinian People and Decolonization. DPPA is based at the UN Headquarters in New York City.

Staffing[edit]

On 28 March 2018, UN Secretary-General António Guterres announced the appointment of Rosemary DiCarlo of the United States, President of the National Committee on American Foreign Policy and Senior Fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs, Yale University, as Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs. DiCarlo succeeded Jeffrey D. Feltman of the United States, who completed his assignment on 31 March 2018.[citation needed]

Former Under-Secretaries-General[edit]

This table lists the former Under-Secretaries-General (USGs) who served:

  • under the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs (1952–1992)
  • under the Department of Political Affairs (1992–2019)
  • under the Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (2019–)
Former heads of DPPA and DPPA predecessors[1][2]
Under-Secretary-General Country of nationality Years served UN Secretary-General
Konstantin Zinchenko  Soviet Union 1952 Trygve Lie
Ilya S. Tchernychev 1953–1954 Dag Hammarskjöld
Dragoslav Protitch 1955–1957
Anatoly F. Dobrynin 1958-1959
Georgy Arkadev 1960–1961
E.D. Kiselyv 1962 U Thant
V.P. Suslov 1963–1964
Alexei E. Nesterenko 1965–1967
Leonid N. Kutakov 1968–1972
Arkady N. Shevchenko 1973–1977 Kurt Waldheim
Mikhail D. Sytenko 1978–1980
Viacheslav A. Ustinov 1981–1986 Javier Pérez de Cuéllar
Vasily S. Safronchuk 1987–1991
1 March 1992: The Department of Political Affairs (DPA) is formed. DPA absorbs the Department of Political and Security Council Affairs, the Office for Political and General Assembly Affairs and Secretariat Services (OPGS), and the Office for Special Political Questions, Regional Cooperation, Decolonization and Trusteeship (SPQRCDT).[3]
Vladimir F. Petrovsky  Russia 1992–1993[a] Boutros Boutros-Ghali
James O.C. Jonah  Sierra Leone 1992–1994[b]
Marrack Goulding  United Kingdom 1993–1997
Kieran Prendergast 1997–2005 Kofi Annan
Ibrahim Gambari  Nigeria 2005–2007
B. Lynn Pascoe  United States 2007–2012 Ban Ki-moon
Jeffrey D. Feltman 2012–2018 Ban Ki-moon

António Guterres

Rosemary A. DiCarlo 2018–present António Guterres

Field missions[edit]

As of December 2016, the DPA manages the following political missions and peace-building support offices engaged in conflict prevention, peacemaking and post-conflict peacebuilding in Africa, Central Asia and the Middle East:

In Africa:

In Asia:

In the Middle East:

In South America:

These DPA-led field operations are headed by senior representatives of the Secretary-General and provide a forward platform for preventive diplomacy and other activities across a range of disciplines, to help prevent and resolve conflict or to build lasting peace in nations emerging from civil wars. The peace-building offices, currently active in Burundi, Guinea-Bissau, the Central African Republic and Sierra Leone aim to help nations consolidate peace through comprehensive peace-building strategies developed and carried out in coordination with national actors and U.N. development and humanitarian entities on the ground. Political missions are part of a continuum of UN peace operations working in different stages of the conflict cycle. In some instances, following the signing of peace agreements, political missions overseen by the Department of Political Affairs during the stage of peace negotiations have been replaced by peacekeeping missions. In other instances, U.N. peacekeeping operations have given way to special political missions overseeing longer-term peace-building activities.

Good Offices missions

In addition to the field-based missions currently under its supervision, DPA provides guidance and support to traveling envoys and special advisers of the Secretary-General bringing to bear his “good offices” for the resolution of conflicts or the implementation of other UN mandates. These currently include UN envoys or special advisers for Cyprus, Yemen, Syria, Western Sahara, and the Macedonian-Greek naming dispute.

Investigative Mandates and Fact-Finding Missions

DPA has also assisted in establishing and providing support to various UN investigative and fact-finding bodies. These have included: the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG); the United Nations Commission of Inquiry into the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the former Prime Minister of Pakistan; the International Commission of Inquiry on the 28 September 2009 events in Guinea; and the United Nations International Investigation Commission in the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri.

See also[edit]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ USG Vladimir F. Petrovsky jointly headed the newly-created DPA with USG James O.C Jonah, whose Office for Special Political Questions, Regional Cooperation, Decolonization and Trusteeship merged into DPA.[4]
  2. ^ 1992-1993: USG James O.C. Jonah jointly headed the newly-created DPA with USG Vladimir F. Petrovsky. From 1993-1994, he co-headed DPA with USG Marrack Goulding.[5]
  1. ^ "A/66/380 - E - A/66/380". undocs.org. p. 42. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  2. ^ "DEPARTMENT OF POLITICAL AFFAIRS (DPA) AND ITS PREDECESSORS : CHART". lib-unique.un.org. UN-I-QUE (UN Info Quest) - United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library. 1992. Archived from the original on 13 May 2019. Retrieved 2019-05-13.
  3. ^ "Restructuring of the Secretariat of the Organization. Note by the Secretary-General". undocs.org. 21 February 1992. A/46/882. Retrieved 2019-05-14.
  4. ^ "Summary of AG-021 United Nations Department of Political Affairs (1992-present)"
  5. ^ https://search.archives.un.org/downloads/united-nations-department-of-political-affairs-1992-present.pdf "Summary of AG-021 United Nations Department of Political Affairs (1992-present)"

External links[edit]

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