Peacekeeping
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172 examples of Peacekeeping in a sentence
The UN, which carries the mantle for the international community, has already deployed a
peacekeeping
force to Mali.
The British parliament voted not to intervene in Syria;Western countries are among the smallest contributors to United Nations
peacekeeping
operations; and countries that preach diplomacy and prevention, like Germany, have yet to turn their rhetoric into action.
All of our tools – sanctions, UN peacekeeping, military operations – have mixed records.
At the same time, India and many other countries could share their decades of experience in UN
peacekeeping
with Europe and the US.
But the battalion-size (1,500 troops) EU Battlegroups committed to it by various European countries are oriented principally toward humanitarian relief and
peacekeeping.
Then Europe should turn over non-combat
peacekeeping
to existing African security organizations and address the longer-term task of post-intervention nation-building.
China’s leaders fear that if they begin to pronounce on the domestic record of other nations, much less join in sanctions or United Nations
peacekeeping
missions, they will help establish a precedent that would allow others to intrude on domestic Chinese affairs.
Meanwhile, we are pushing ahead with one of the most complex
peacekeeping
operations in our history, feeding and protecting hundreds of thousands of displaced people, and sponsoring difficult peace negotiations in Libya.
One week it is the UN Security Council vote about a continued US presence in the Bosnia
peacekeeping
mission.
Civilian response capability is receiving much more organized attention, as is the need for militaries to rethink their force configuration, doctrine, rules of engagement, and training to deal better with mass atrocity response operations – which often need to fall somewhere between
peacekeeping
and full-scale combat.
It is playing an active role in the UN – the Security Council, the Economic and Social Council, and the Human Rights Council – and it is participating in numerous initiatives related to peacekeeping, development cooperation, climate change, non-proliferation, and human rights.
It proved utterly unable to stop the wars in the Balkans; and in at least one case--Srebrenica--a Dutch UN
peacekeeping
force stood by and witnessed the worst massacre in post-1945 Europe, as Bosnian Serbs murdered around 6,000 defenseless Muslim men.
A draft of proposed changes submitted to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi assigns three key tasks to the Self-Defense Forces (SDF): effective response to new threats, participation in international
peacekeeping
activities, and defense against invasion.
A Security Council resolution last August mandated a 20,300-strong UN
peacekeeping
force to replace the small and overwhelmed African Union mission currently on the ground.
Now, as his administration returns to the UN to seek a new resolution that will enable other countries to contribute troops and resources for
peacekeeping
and reconstruction in Iraq, he is paying the price for the way he went to war.
Leaving aside the cost in terms of human lives, the economic costs of maintaining peace are but a fraction of what would be required for humanitarian assistance, military intervention, and
peacekeeping
operations should the country relapse into conflict.
NATO
peacekeeping
operations have been a stabilizing factor in the region.
For, contrary to what is often said in America’s Congress, Europe already bears the lion’s share of the
peacekeeping
burden (let alone reconstruction aid) in the Balkans.
Japan, for its part, needs to continue to open and reform its economy, improve its military, and make its forces available for the sort of low-intensity but manpower-intensive missions, ranging from genocide prevention to nation-building to peacekeeping, that are increasingly required in the greater Middle East and Africa.
Those parts devoted to "good works" (i.e., the low-risk
peacekeeping
bureaucracies or those that fight AIDs and malaria or protect children) will remain.
Yet Japan's modestly named Self-Defense Forces are involved in many regional hot spots (no combat duty, of course) and seek to play a more active part in UN
peacekeeping.
Ever since Japan dispatched minesweepers to the Persian Gulf after the Gulf War in 1991, the Self-Defense Forces have been expanding their activities beyond Japan and its immediate vicinity to include international
peacekeeping
missions, emergency relief operations, multilateral military exercises, and naval refueling support in the Indian Ocean.
Hence, Japan must be seen to be doing more to support its inseparable ally, as well as international
peacekeeping
efforts in general.
He kidnapped 500 troops from the regional
peacekeeping
force, ECOWAS.
The United Kingdom and France, which contributed the bulk of the
peacekeeping
force, insisted on a
peacekeeping
mandate, because they did not want to put their troops in harm’s way.
Although many Americans had witnessed the carnage from their living rooms and wanted the UN to do more to stop it, neither they nor their leaders – first George H.W. Bush and then Bill Clinton – had any interest in sending American troops to be a part of a Bosnian
peacekeeping
force.
By the time the US-led Dayton Accords had put an end to the war, in December 1995, the UN’s
peacekeeping
capacity had been so thoroughly discredited that NATO war-fighting troops were sent in to take over from the UN Protection Force.
Even Trump’s dystopian and dyspeptic speech conceded that the UN makes valuable contributions to world peace, through
peacekeeping
missions and other forms of assistance.
Its total annual revenue, including additional contributions of member states for
peacekeeping
and humanitarian operations, is around $50 billion, or 0.06% of the world income – a fraction of the real need.
Adding in
peacekeeping
and other payments, the total annual US contribution per year comes to around $10 billion, or roughly $30 per capita.
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