Sentence examples for at peacekeeping from inspiring English sources
Europeans, in particular, have become practised at peacekeeping.
At peacekeeping, peace-enforcing or policing, call it what you will, they are often inept.
The history of attempts at peacekeeping in Africa is not glorious.
But whom does it deter?The ragtag militias that effectively control the north-eastern region of Ituri delight in taking potshots at peacekeeping units.
He said lessons learned may well mean the UN doing better today at peacekeeping in South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Mali.
That failure has haunted all subsequent efforts at peacekeeping in Africa, and remains a major reason for reluctance to send foreign troops into Congo, a broader conflict in a larger nation.
Unlike the Europeans, Washington at first drew the line at sending peacekeeping troops to Bosnia.
"It was a nightmare," said Murat Karakullukcu, a police official who spent the night at the headquarters through the attack and had served at UN peacekeeping missions in Kosovo.
Grossly inadequate sanitation practices at a peacekeeping base, including the spillover of faecal waste, led to the contamination of a nearby stream.
And where our attempts at regional peacekeeping did overreach, as in Lebanon in the early 1980s, we managed to pull back without disastrous or destabilizing consequences.
