EXCERPT FROM PREFACE: It is our hope that this book will be the beginning of a new era in which UN peacekeeping missions have added strength from strategic intelligence (the right mandate and the right force structure), operational intelligence (complex situational awareness spanning civil as well as military dimensions) and tactical intelligence (avoiding surprise, substituting intelligence for violence).

EXCERPT FROM LEADERSHIP GUIDE: Peacekeeping Intelligence (PKI) is substantially different from combat intelligence, which the military is accustomed to, or law enforcement intelligence, which some but not all police forces understand. It requires, above all, a different mind-set on the part of the commander and his staff, as well as all personnel, both officer and enlisted. Indeed, it introduces civilian personnel, and non-governmental personnel, into the actual day-to-day collection, processing, and analysis of raw information from multiple sources. It relies very heavily on open sources of information as well as substantially more direct observation and elicitation from varied indigenous sources and largely by non-intelligence personnel, military police and normal infantry patrols, inter alia.

Peacekeeping intelligence is different from national intelligence in one other important way. As Hugh Smith has stated so eloquently:

"The concept of ‘UN intelligence’ promises to turn traditional principles of intelligence on their heads. Intelligence will have to be based on information that is collected primarily by overt means, that is, by methods that do not threaten the target state or group and do not compromise the integrity or impartiality of the UN. It will have to be intelligence that is by definition shared among a number of nations and that in most cases will become widely known in the short and medium term. And it will have to be intelligence that is directed towards the purposes of the international community."