6月16日から18日まで、ニューヨークにて、
国連システム学術評議会（ACUNS)の年次会合があり、
私も発表しました。

ACUNSは国連について研究する研究者と
国連で働いたり国連の業務についている実務者とが
国連について共に研究する、
世界にネットワークを持つ学術評議会です。

今年は国連事務次長を始め、
国連の職員の参加も多く、
各分科会も賑わいました。

私は第四分科会にて、
国連警察の中でも武装している武装警察（Formed Police Units)について
発表しました。

Ai Kihara-Hunt, PhD, University of Essex

The UN police is the fastest growing component of UN Peace Operations. Its functions have evolved: from monitoring, to law enforcement tasks, capacity building and institutional reform, and to newer ‘rule of law’ tasks. Situations in which it is deployed have also changed: initially benign environment, but increasingly in more volatile situations. Formed Police Units (FPUs) were first deployed in 1999. They are part of the UN police, who are given specific tasks requiring a formed response and involving a higher security risk. They have rapidly increased, and currently consist almost 70 percent of the UN police. This article questions whether their significant rise is proportional to the increased demand for their functions. One aspect of FPUs is their mode of selection and deployment. Unlike individually selected officers (Individual Police Officers, IPOs), FPU officers are selected virtually exclusively by their contributing States and deployed as national units in bulk, and the UN pays the cost to their contributing States. This enables the UN to save time and for contributing States to receive money. If that is the real reason for the rise of FPUs, this needs to be discussed transparently at the UN’s political organs.