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United Nations Missions in Haiti

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MINUJUSTH; MINUSTAH; MIPONUH; UNMIH; UNSMIH; UNTMIH

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The United Nations missions in Haiti generally refer to the six peacekeeping missions following the country’s rocky transition to democracy in the early 1990s through the conclusion of the most recent mission in October 2019. These include: (1) the United Nations Mission in Haiti (UNMIH) which operated from 1993 to 1996; (2) the United Nations Support Mission in Haiti (UNSMIH) which was open for 1 year ending July 1997; (3) the United Nations Transition Mission in Haiti (UNTMIH) which was open from August to November 1997; (4) the United Nations Civilian Police Mission in Haiti (MIPONUH) from 1997 to 2000; (5) the United Nations Stabilization Mission in Haiti (MINUSTAH) from 2004 to 2017; and (6) the United Nations Mission for Justice Support in Haiti (MINUJUSTH) from 2017 to 2019 (see Fig. 1).

United Nations Missions in Haiti, Fig. 1
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Kolbe, A.R. (2022). United Nations Missions in Haiti. In: Richmond, O.P., Visoka, G. (eds) The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Peace and Conflict Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77954-2_153

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