1. the title most commonly refers to a UN civilian staff member, seconded from DPI in UN secretariat in NY and assigned to the force commander, who coordinates the activities of public relations officers of national contingents, who serves as liaison between the peace-keeping force and the media and serves in an advisory capacity to the force commander or the special representative of the Secretary-General regarding external relations with the local communities and the media, and who sometimes takes on the functions of spokesperson also; is usually a P-5 or P-4; 2. the title may sometimes refer to the information officer of a contingent, who is only responsible for informing the public of his home country on the activities of his particular contingent and for providing members of his contingent with news from the home country and from within the contingent.