India calls for technological overhaul in global peacekeeping at UNTCC 2025

On the first day of the three-day United Nations ‘Troop Contributing Countries’ Conclave (UNTCC) 2025, being organised for the first time in India, a stern appeal was made to modernise international peacekeeping during a meeting at the Manekshaw Centre in the national capital.

- SIMONTINI BHATTACHARJEE

Starting the tone, Chief of Army Staff General Upendra Dwivedi on Monday, demanded a paradigm shift from traditional, troop-based deployments and towards highly flexible, technologically empowered, and preventive efforts.

Operations in the future will have to be founded on imagination, flexibility, and immediate intelligence, he asserted, in an age marked by hybrid warfare and non-state actors. Lt Gen Dwivedi highlighted that contemporary conflicts demand “brains behind the network” as well as “boots on the ground,” and UN mandates that provide enhanced operational flexibility in dealing with dynamic changing ground realities.