Peacekeeping during the Cold War was primarily, and in some cases exclusively, charged with monitoring cease-fires. This changed significantly, as peace operations evolved to include other missions (e.g., rule of law, election supervision), many under the rubric of peacebuilding. What is lacking is consideration of how the different missions affect one another, simultaneously and in sequences. This study addresses that gap by looking at the interconnectedness of missions and their success in the UN Organization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUC), which was mandated to perform eight different missions over a decade. The article examines success or failure in each of those missions and how they relate to one another guided by theoretical logics based on the “security first” hypothesis and mission compatibility expectations. Early failure to stem the violence had negative downstream consequences for later peacebuilding missions. Nevertheless, MONUC’s election supervision mission was successful.

冷战期间的维和行动主要，在某些情况下完全负责监督停火。随着和平行动演变为包括其他任务（例如，法治、选举监督），许多都在建设和平的标题下，这发生了重大变化。缺少的是考虑不同的任务如何同时和依次影响彼此。本研究通过考察任务的相互关联性及其在联合国组织刚果民主共和国特派团 ( MONUC)中的成功来解决这一差距)，它被授权在十年内执行八项不同的任务。这篇文章在基于“安全第一”假设和任务兼容性预期的理论逻辑的指导下，考察了每项任务的成功或失败，以及它们之间的相互关系。早期未能阻止暴力对后来的建设和平任务产生了负面的下游后果。尽管如此，联刚特派团的选举监督任务还是取得了成功。