Providing guidance for the military working on humanitarian emergencies, this handbook is specifically aimed at members of Armed Forces working with UNHCR in peace support operations. It contains the following chapters:

- Military humanitarian context
- Organizations and responsibilities
- Guiding principles and legal frameworks for humanitarian action
- Cooperation and coordination in emergency operations
- Humanitarian implications of peace support activities in emergency operations
- Military tasks in support of UNHCR in emergency operations

With stress management becoming an increasingly important factor in the adequate preparation of UN peace-keepers, this document aims to provide a basic framework for professional stress management trainers. It offers two main parts:

Part One: Most essential elements required for trainers dealing with stress in UN peace-keeping operations. Focuses on the phases before, during and after a peace-keeping assignment with specific
emphasis on traumatic, or critical-incident, stress.

Part Two: 'Stress Management for

This report analyses existing and proposed mandates of different humanitarian agencies and of social and humanitarian departments of the UN Secretariat, to ensure that these are appropriate and applicable during complex emergency operations.

The report also focuses on the relationship between humanitarian assistance and peace-keeping operators, mechanisms for cooperation and coordination at headquarters and field levels and among the different actors, as well as the security and safety of UN field personnel.

The information and documentation used in

S/RES/968 (1994)
The Security Council,

Recalling the statements of the President of the Security Council of 30 October 1992 (S/24742), of 23 August 1993 (S/26341), of 22 September 1994 (S/PRST/1994/56) and 8 November 1994 (S/PRST/1994/65),

Having considered the reports of the Secretary-General of 27 September 1994 (S/1994/1102) and of 30 November 1994 (S/1994/1363),

Welcoming the agreement between the Government of Tajikistan and the Tajik opposition in the course of the third round of inter-Tajik talks in Islamabad on the extension until 6 February 1995