According to a report on FRANCE 24, the United Nation (UN) is considering adding drones to its humanitarian equipment in peace keeping missions across the world.

This unmanned drones will help survey conflict areas and deliver crucial assistance to UN teams in the field, the global organization said in a report published in February.

“The argument we’re making is that peacekeeping missions on the ground should have at least the same operational capability that every government has within its police and military forces,” Jane Lute said in the report.

“The capacity of aerial visualization is coming to everyone, in every setting – agriculture, disaster response, conflict – and we say that the member states need to take a look at empowering peacekeeping missions more broadly as part of an overall orientation towards technology to strengthen their hand.”

The UN is calling its unmanned aerial  vehicles “UAVs” to distance them from the controversial US military drones.

In Africa, the first UN drone was launched in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in 2013 in a bid to end one of world’s deadliest conflict between militias, warlords and government forces over minerals. The Congo war had lasted for at least two decade.

After helping end the Congo conflict, the drones have been used to quell other conflict across the continent.

“Getting to the FDLR in the jungle is not only dangerous but it could take months and thousands of troops,” a UN official told FRANCE 24. “With drones we can watch their movements 24 hours a day.”

Apart from surveillance, the UN has used drone as deterrence by hovering at lower heights so that can be seen by militants and remind them they are being watched.

“Without touching anything, going anywhere near them, we’re sending a clear message: we know where you are, surrender,” the official said.