List of non-UN peacekeeping missions

Below is a list of current and historical peacekeeping missions which were not mandated by the United Nations.


 * Multinational Force and Observers on the Sinai Peninsula mandated on April 25, 1982 continues to observe compliance with the Egyptian-Israeli Treaty of Peace. It is an observation organisation not an occupation but it does place some restrictions on the sovereignty of the area it observes.
 * The Australian/New Zealand-led Operation Helpem Fren in the Solomon Islands (since July 2003) and Operation Astute in Timor-Leste (since May 2006).
 * IPKF [Indian Peace Keeping Force], Indian peacekeeping operations in Sri Lanka between 1987 and 1990.
 * Nigerian-led ECOMOG missions:
 * to end the First and Second Liberian Civil Wars, 1990–1995 and 2003 respectively.
 * to end the Sierra Leone Civil War, 1997-2000. The Organisation of African Unity endorsed the Nigerian-led West African peacekeeping force in 1998.
 * to Guinea-Bissau in 1999
 * to Guinea/Liberia border in 2001.
 * NATO-led missions:
 * IFOR was a NATO-led multinational force that took over responsibilities from UNPROFOR in Bosnia-Herzegovina, 1995–1996.
 * SFOR was a NATO-led multinational force that took over responsibilities from IFOR, 1996–2004
 * KFOR is a NATO-led multinational force responsible for establishing and maintaining security in Kosovo. This peace-enforcement force entered Kosovo on June 12, 1999 under a United Nations mandate, two days after the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 1244, but it is not a United Nations blue helmeted peacekeeping mission.
 * ISAF is a (currently) NATO-led multinational force that performs "peacekeeping" in Afghanistan since December 2001. (see also UNAMA)
 * African Union missions:
 * AMIS is the African Union force in Darfur, Sudan since August 2004 in response to the Darfur Conflict. It merged with UNAMID, a UN-mandated peacekeeping force deployed in Darfur, in December 2007.
 * AMISOM is the African Union force in Somalia since February 2007 in response to the War in Somalia.