'peacekeeping' is an acceptable and common word in written English.
It is used to describe an effort to maintain or restore peace in a particular area, usually through the use of military forces. For example: UN peacekeeping forces are currently stationed in numerous conflict zones around the world.
It will take him and his fellow de-miners another decade to rid Angola's roads, bridges, fields and schools of the mines that they know about, some of which were laid as recently as 2002, when Angola's civil war ended.In this section Is this the world's least effective UN peacekeeping force?
That could affect peacekeeping operations worldwide.Minustah's reputation has been further tarnished by charges of sexual abuse.
African leaders have been extolling the union's new vitality, for instance by vaunting its ambitious (though not yet effective) peacekeeping operations in such places as Sudan's war-ravaged Darfur province.
UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous fears the worst.
Australia played a peacekeeping role during the nearly decade-long civil war in Bougainville, which at its height had displaced 70,000 of the 180,000-strong population.
His report even hinted at an end to the UN's peacekeeping mission, which would probably lead to a resumption of war.
Under Nelson's watch the memorial has increased its efforts to tell the story of Indigenous service personnel – "black diggers" – in the world wars and in subsequent peacekeeping and peacekeeping operations.
Twenty years after the Bosnian war ended, the Russians for the first time abstained in November on a UN vote extending the EU peacekeeping mission in Sarajevo.
The man tested positive for Ebola on 6 October, prompting Liberia's UN peacekeeping mission to place 41 other staff members under close medical observation.
The UN secretary-general, Kofi Annan, had asked for his peacekeeping force's mandate to be extended until the end of February.
When I was in peacekeeping, we normally did not take troops from neighbouring countries into an operation.
