Sentence examples for peace support from inspiring English sources

The AU has massively expanded its peace support operations, which now rival the UN's in size and ambition.

By contrast, the Germans will not even recognise that their 4,000 troops are involved in a war – but merely a peace support mission.

The British army that entered Iraq in 2003 had a quarter of a century of peace support operations behind them and many commanders thought southern Iraq would be much the same, he writes in The Road from Sarajevo*.

Moreover, one has only to look at the anemic Western contributions to the UN/AU hybrid peace support operation to Darfur authorized by UN Security Council Resolution 1769 to see how little pampering has occurred.

The US ambassador to the UN, Samantha Power, said the security council should look at "how the international community can protect civilians from mass violence, including for the possible deployment of a regionally led peace support operation".

He added, "We and the other members of the European Union have more than 40,000 military personnel in active peace support missions around the globe, and our military is taught to respect universal humanitarian law, universal human rights and so on and we prosecute those who do not do so".

The group, called Brit Shalom (Covenant of Peace), supported the idea of shared political power in Palestine.

One of the largest, the Movement of the Society for Peace, supported Mr. Bouteflika in the election last week.

The thesis of my book is that Israelis and Palestinians deserve a robust peace supported by mutual self-determination.

Here was a dignified man making a simple appeal for mercy, begging that the law allow him to die in peace, supported by his family.

Granting Palestinians this status, instead of bringing the Palestinians and Israel closer to peace, supports the Palestinian Authority's position that negotiations between the parties are unnecessary and that statehood can be established by United Nations fiat.