Vietnam’s journey to develop the Vietnam Department of Peacekeeping Operations into a peacekeeping training center with regional and international prominence has taken shape and yielded positive results over the past ten years.

This progress is demonstrated by the creation of courses with international participation, where Vietnam shares its experiences on a global stage.

Over the past ten years, more than 800 Vietnamese peacekeepers have been deployed in South Sudan, the Central African Republic, the Abyei Area, and the Department of Peace Operations at the UN Headquarters in New York.

There are three key milestones in the past ten years: the deployment of the first two individual officers in 2014, the deployment of the first Level-2 field hospital in 2018, and the deployment of the first Engineering Unit in 2022.

For individual commissions, Vietnam has achieved the highest level of outstanding officers’ performance of over 30 percent, a high rate compared to the average of other countries participating in peacekeeping missions.

In terms of unit types, the country has successfully deployed a Level-2 field hospital in very challenging areas with insufficient infrastructure, while meeting the international standards required for professional and technical competence.

Four years after that deployment, Vietnam made another big step by deploying the Engineering Unit with a force of 184 officers and personnel, along with bringing in a large amount of equipment, over 2,200 tonnes, including nearly 150 vehicles.

In terms of international training, over the past ten years, Vietnam has progressed from having no experience and relying on foreign instructors, to co-teaching with international and domestic instructors and now organizing high-level specialized training courses. Vietnam has successfully organized numerous such courses over the years.