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"peacekeeping force" refers to a group of people, usually military soldiers or personnel, who work towards maintaining peace and stability in a troubled or conflict-ridden region or country. Their main goal is to prevent violence, protect civilians, and help resolve conflicts peacefully.
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UN commanders
of peacekeeping forces who stay strictly within the constraints of their mission may find themselves watching passively as atrocities unfold, as did Dutch peacekeepers in 1995 in Srebrenica, where thousands of Muslim men and boys were rounded up and taken to their deaths.
Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy welcomed the unanimous passage of the UN Security Council resolution authorizing a multinational
peacekeeping force for East Timor.
«As part of the rehabilitation of the region, any future
peacekeeping force in Abkhazia and South Ossetia must be independent and not based on Russian forces.»
An under - resourced hybrid UN and African
Union peacekeeping force deploys to Darfur in earl 2008, five years after conflict broke out in the Sudanese region.
In case you've somehow forgotten, Age Of Ultron finds Tony Stark trying his hand at creating an
international peacekeeping force of droids controlled by the self - aware A.I. Ultron.
The United Nations is investigating reports its own
peacekeeping forces failed to stop the mass rape of dozens of aid workers in South Sudan, even though they were told about it.
The story of Aphelion starts with Private Savion Mercate of the Eriet
Peacekeeping Force on a rescue mission to save Ambassador Andelen from the crimson army.
The game stars Grayson Hunt, a stranded member of an intergalactic
peacekeeping force who finds his ship wrecked on a strange planet, and the only way to get home safe is to kill his way out.
After receiving a powerful ring from a dying alien, Jordan is whisked across space to the planet Oa, to learn he has been chosen, like it or not, to become a member of an
intergalactic peacekeeping force overseen by a parliament of blue yodas known as the Guardians of the Universe.
Otherwise, the ICC would hardly have garnered support from Britain, France and other countries with extensive military and
peacekeeping forces overseas.
The result sometimes has been the «militarization» of humanitarian aid, as the presence of
outside peacekeeping forces pulls NGOs into conflicts in new ways.
Gradually, during the 1990s, the Security Council began to use Chapter VII much more to impose economic sanctions, arms embargoes, and to deploy
large peacekeeping forces and even military attacks in many civil wars.
Preoccupied by global problems, the EU and US have gradually abandoned their legal and moral obligations to uphold the 1995 Dayton Agreement, and shown declining interest in the Office of the High Representative (OHR), and the
EU peacekeeping force (EUFOR), which are the key mechanisms for ensuring the agreement's civilian and military implementation.
She said that UN intervention is already a global effort, with Bangladeshi and Ghanaian troops, among others, having a significant presence
among peacekeeping forces.
The Bosnian War had raged from 1992 to 1995, and had stopped only after the NATO led an air campaign against the Serbian backed facted, and that only after a more moderate international intervention by the United
Nation peacekeeping forces failed to stop the fighting and the massacres.
By waiting instead of acting now, both the EU and NATO risk Russian troops consolidating the positions making any peaceful efforts to remove them extremely difficult or making the installation of an
armed peacekeeping force, impossible.
Nyamitwe said the situation in Burundi is calm and there is no need for either UN or African Union
peacekeeping forces as some have suggested.
They must move forward quickly to implement an immediate and strengthened ceasefire, commit to a political process and agree an
effective peacekeeping force for Darfur.»
These days are seen through the eyes and lens of four young photographers who, among other things, captured the fight between the
National Peacekeeping Force and the African National Congress in the Tokoza township.
This could well be the movie version of the comic
book peacekeeping force MRD (Mutant Response Division), which was formed by the U.N. to tackle mutant threats.
North Atlantic, the latest production from stalwart avant - garde troupe the Wooster Group, is a sexed up Catch - 22 that follows the travails of an international, Cold War -
era peacekeeping force confined to an aircraft carrier while on a classified mission in the North Atlantic.
G.O.D. is the
main peacekeeping force of the Masters of Mankind and the 8DAYS Magazine helps guarantee a healthy public opinion.
Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian in charge of the UN
Peacekeeping forces during the genocide, has suffered great mental anguish since the event.
Nissan skipped a 2016 Armada, and goes straight from the 2015 Armada based on the Nissan Titan pickup to the 2017 based on the global (just not US) Nissan Patrol, an SUV favored by UN
peacekeeping forces along with the Toyota Land Cruiser.
In 1987, an
Indian Peacekeeping Force was brought in to negotiate a ceasefire, with little effect; later, in 2002, another ceasefire was tentatively agreed upon; but it took another seven years for the war to officially end.
«In particular, the UN
peacekeeping force UNMIL should continue to provide support to the FDA in its efforts to gain full control of Liberia's forests.»
For the three people who don't yet know, Age Of Ultron finds Tony Stark trying his hand at creating an
international peacekeeping force of droids controlled by the self - aware A.I., Ultron.
Speaking from No 10, Gordon Brown urged Sudan to cooperate with the ICC and called on the country's authorities to stop hindering efforts to deploy a full - strength UN / African
Union peacekeeping force to the region.
Associated Press and Human Rights Watch
UN peacekeeping forces, some of which were only a few minutes away, were notified via electronic messages of the attack minutes after it happened.
Prime Minister Chretien announced that Canada will send up to 600 peacekeepers to East Timor as part of a United Nation's
peacekeeping force that will be led by Australia.
Nor are the issues clear for
the peacekeeping forces themselves.
But a nonviolent national defense force, or
a peacekeeping force bringing together citizens of a dozen nations, is of little use except for its intended purpose.
Mr Brown wants
the peacekeeping force to be on the ground by October and has called on world leaders to act quickly to stem the growing humanitarian disaster.
The prime minister has called for
a peacekeeping force in Sudan in order to avert the «greatest humanitarian disaster the world faces today.»
My family is a genetic equivalent of a UN
peacekeeping force.
As more people are killed in the Christian - Muslim violence engulfing the country, a delegation of the two most senior figures from both sides of the divide visited Britain to ask it to commit troops to a UN
peacekeeping force.
The reports that NATO has been discussing sending troops, including German units, to Afghanistan as part of
a peacekeeping force are unfounded.
It will send an international
peacekeeping force of 15,000 veteran troops to police the strip between the Israel - Lebanon border and the Litani river, where fighting is currently taking place.
The UN
peacekeeping force, -LRB-...) revealed that Israel had been working closely with Syrian opposition terrorists, including Al Qaeda's Al Nusra Front and IS in the Golan Heights, and «kept close contact over the past 18 months.»
Tony Blair told him the international community was failing people in Darfur but the UK was pressing for the African Union
peacekeeping force to come up to full strength.
«We need 18 helicopters but no one has provided it and yet we are so concerned about Darfur,» said former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan at an event at Columbia University in September, noting the stretched resources of
the peacekeeping forces in that region.