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This paper discusses UN peace operations’ approach to border security. Part one stresses that planning for UN operations continues to underappreciate the need to address total border management in peacekeeping mandates. It also surveys global border security and customs and export control assistance programs, addresses training needs, and outlines critical challenges ahead for efforts to improve border management in post-conflict environments. Part two of the study examines how the UN might better integrate border management tasks into its peacekeeping and peacebuilding mandates and emphasizes that if UN peacekeepers are to undertake border security tasks, then the Department of Peacekeeping Operations must reach out to key stakeholders with similar interests, leveraging the capabilities already to be found in their programs.