NOUN
- the activity of keeping the peace by military forces (especially when international military forces enforce a truce between hostile groups or nations)
How To Use peacekeeping mission In A Sentence
- Officials with UNAMID, the joint African Union and United Nations peacekeeping mission, strongly condemned what they called cowardly acts of violence against the peacekeepers. Latest News - UPI.com
- The current U.N. peacekeeping mission in Haiti, known as MINUSTAH, was established by the U.N. Security Council in 2004 and has been helping Haiti's short-staffed and ill-equipped police to maintain security in the volatile Caribbean state, especially during elections plagued by fraud and violence. Uruguay apologizes over alleged rape by U.N. peacekeepers
- All other nations' armed forces involved in Asia are deployed in peacekeeping missions.
- In Côte D'Ivoire, the U.N. peacekeeping mission has done similar work, helping to remove the brutal dictator, Laurent Gbagbo, put an end to the second Ivorian Civil War in the past decade, and facilitate the peaceful transition to democracy. Don Kraus: Next Steps to Protect
- In the 1990s Army units began to deploy more frequently for peacekeeping missions in other countries.
- excoriate" the UN's peacekeeping mission in Congo. The Economist: Correspondent's diary
- The original rationale cited Georgia's violation of the 1992 Sochi Agreement (also known as the Dagomys Agreement), and its attack on the OSCE sponsored peacekeeping mission in South Ossetia.
- Traditional peacekeeping missions were deployed only when a conflict had ceased and with the consent of the belligerents.
- They typically served to monitor ceasefires and supervise truces; occasionally, peacekeeping missions were deployed to keep belligerents apart as in Cyprus in 1964.
- A career soldier in a family of military lifers, Dallaire was appointed to head the U.N. peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in June 1993.
