Sentence examples for peacekeeping for from inspiring English sources

Most of the effort, of course, is directed at more traditional peacekeeping, for which the troops received months of training.

Indeed, until quite recently most Social Democrats needed a lot of persuading that German forces should play a bigger international part, in Bosnian peacekeeping for instance.

She was most proud of her work on international peacekeeping, for Sir Brian Urquhart and the late Nobel Peace laureate Ralph Bunche.

"We know it is going to be a fairly volatile environment," said Hervé Ladsous, the head of peacekeeping for the United Nations, after the unanimous 15-to-0 vote in the Council.

And its foreign peacekeeping, for example in Mali, which lasted only a few months in 2013, has been lacklustre.Senior generals from all branches of the forces should have been less surprised than they sounded when they were fired on January 16th by President Goodluck Jonathan in a show of strength intended to impress noisy detractors in his own party.

"Professor Schachter did more than any other official of the United Nations to help shape the rule of law," Secretary General Kofi Annan said, adding that he was the "architect of the legal framework which has guided United Nations peacekeeping for more than 50 years".

Three months after? 4. Design and film a recruitment commercial for peacekeeping troops for NATO or the United Nations.

The posts of undersecretary-general for peacekeeping and for political affairs are coveted jobs with all five permanent Council members lobbying for them.

The proposed budget of 8.2 billion dollars for peacekeeping operations for the period Jul. 1, 2009 to 30 Jun. 30, 2010 represents an increase of 16.8percentt since the budget of 7.03 billion dollars which will expire on Jun. 30, 2009.

Susan Rice, America's ambassador to the United Nations, is apparently trying to build support in the Security Council for a UN peacekeeping force for Mali.

As Daniel Keohane of the Centre for European Reform, a London think-tank, puts it, Europe "is ready for peacekeeping but not for peacemaking or war-fighting".