Research Paper The International Journal of Indian Psychology ISSN 2348-5396 (e) | ISSN: 2349-3429 (p) Volume 6, Issue 2, DIP: 18.01.012/20180602 DOI: 10.25215/0602.012 http://www.ijip.in | April - June, 2018 2018 © Negi P S , Sharma N & Tomar; licensee IJIP. This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Emotional Climate in UN Peacekeeping Organization: An Exploratory Study Parvender S. Negi 1 *, Nity Sharma 2 , Abhishek Tomar 3 ABSTRACT UN peacekeeping missions involve the participation of military personnel from different countries, and all the interactions between soldiers take place in a culturally diverse military environment. Deployment in a foreign soil, away from family and home creates a lot of physical and emotional challenges for the soldiers; therefore the emotional climate of the military base gains importance. This paper aims to explore the emotional climate and the factors influencing it in a UN military organization in Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Africa. The data was gathered from 5 officers of Indian Armed Forces deployed in DRC, using e-mail interviewing technique in which participants’ responses were gathered using an interview schedule of open-ended questions. The findings suggest that overall a positive emotional climate of security and trust exists in the organization. Political context, commanders’ practices and the relationships among soldiers are the factors influencing and shaping the emotional climate. Future research into these factors is important to help identify positive climate practices (PEC) which have several implications for the soldiers’ performance, motivation, and well-being. Keywords: Emotional Climate, Peacekeeping, Emotional Well-being. The United Nations (UN) has been deploying military personnel from all different nations for peacekeeping operations since 1948 when UN military observers were authorized by the Security Council for deployment to monitor the Armistice Agreement between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The idea of peacekeeping is to maintain and restore peace in the places where conflict and non-violence are prevalent, and the peacekeeping soldier is expected to cooperate with other members coming from different nations and with civilian personnel of international assistance organizations (Hundt, 1996). The interaction and cooperation among these peacekeeping soldiers, coming from different nations, doesn’t just take place in 1 Masters Student at Department of Psychology, University of Delhi (North Campus), India 2 Scientist ‘D’ at Defence Institute of Psychological Research (DIPR), New Delhi, India 3 Lt. Col in Indian Army, India *Responding Author Received: March 13, 2018; Revision Received: April 5, 2018; Accepted: May 20, 2018