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Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
Established1992; 32 years ago (1992)
TypeDepartment of the Secretariat
Legal statusActive
Websitedpa.un.org/en
The Department of Political Affairs is headquartered at the Secretariat in new York

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 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 UN Security Council and two standing committees created by the General Assembly concerning the Rights of the Palestinian People and Decolonization.

Staffing

  • Rosemary DiCarlo – Under-Secretary-General for Political and Peacebuilding Affairs
  • Oscar Fernandez-Taranco – Assistant Secretary-General for Peacebuilding Support
  • Bintou Keita – Assistant Secretary-General for Africa
  • Miroslav Jenča – Assistant Secretary-General for Europe, Central Asia and Americas
  • Vacant – 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. Ms. DiCarlo succeeded Jeffrey D. Feltman of the United States, who completes his assignment on 31 March 2018.

Former Under-Secretaries-General


Under-Secretary-General Country of nationality Years served UN Secretary-General
Arkady Sobolev  Soviet Union 1946–1949
Konstantin Zinchenko  Soviet Union 1949–1953
Ilya Tchernychev  Soviet Union 1953–1954
Dragoslav Protich  Soviet Union 1954–1957
Georgy Arkadev  Soviet Union 1960–1962
E.D. Kiselyv  Soviet Union 1962–1963
V.P. Suslov  Soviet Union 1963–1965
Alexei E. Nesterenko  Soviet Union 1965–1968
Leonid N. Kutakov  Soviet Union 1968–1973
Arkady N. Shevchenko  Soviet Union 1973–1978
Mikhail D. Sytenko  Soviet Union 1978–1981
Viacheslav A. Ustinov  Soviet Union 1981–1986
Vasilly S. Safronchuk  Soviet Union later  Russia 1987–1992
Vladimir F. Petrovsky  Russia 1992
James O.C. Jonah  Sierra Leone 1992–1994
Marrack Goulding  United Kingdom 1993–1997
Kieran Prendergast  United Kingdom 1998–2005
Ibrahim Gambari  Nigeria 2005–2007
B. Lynn Pascoe  United States 2007–2012
Jeffrey D. Feltman  United States 2012–2018

Field missions

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

External links

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