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Bulbul Ahmed, PhD Candidate, University of Iowa; Bangladesh University of Professionals

The UN is reinventing peacekeeping – Haiti is the testing ground

A Kenyan police officer, part of a U.N.-backed multinational force, patrols a street in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in December 2024. AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph

For decades, the United Nations has intervened in Haiti in a bid to address persistent political, economic and security crises. To date, all attempts have failed.

Now, the international body is trying something new. On Sept. 30, 2025, the United Nations Security Council approved an expanded international military force for Haiti in hopes of turning the tide against organized criminal gangs that have taken hold of swaths of the Caribbean nation.

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