Sentence examples for peacekeeping in a from inspiring English sources

The solution the Army has found -- making its men part detective, part judge and part jailer -- illustrates the difficulty of peacekeeping in a difficult land.

The authors calculate that if the world spent $8.5 billion on ten years of peacekeeping in a crisis-ridden country, that would reduce the risk of conflict by 30 points, which would be worth between $18 billion and $75 billion.

On the first day of the massacres, ten U.N. blue-helmets were killed, just as Annan had been warned; and, as Annan never tires of saying, there is a world of difference between preventive peacekeeping in a permissive environment and attempted peace-enforcement in the teeth of a full-blown conflagration.

The fall of Srebrenica became a damaging symbol of the United Nations' failure at peacekeeping in a new era of civil wars, and it demonstrated the inadequacy of a system that allowed political considerations to color military decisions when troops were under the command of the United Nations.

"There are countries that support peacekeeping in a big way, with a lot of money, and countries that support it with flesh and blood," said Jean-Marie Guéhenno, the United Nations under secretary general for peacekeeping operations, in a recent interview.

"Peacemaking and peacekeeping in an uncertain environment, in a lethal environment such as the one we see in Iraq or in Afghanistan is just really, really hard," said General Franks, who on Monday stepped down as head of the United States Central Command.

Szasz, Paul C. (1995) "Peacekeeping in Operation: A Conflict Study of Bosnia," Cornell International Law Journal: Vol. 28 : No. 3, Article 8.

The public airing of bitter differences within the UN operation in Freetown comes at a particularly sensitive time as world leaders pledge to overhaul peacekeeping in Africa after a decade of humiliating failures in Angola, Somalia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.

Overview of Lesson Plan: In this lesson, students consider the role of peacekeeping forces in a foreign nation and examine how the violence of Liberia's civil war is affecting United States peacekeeping troops.

Involving peacekeeping troops in a civil war would have "unpredictable and unclear consequences" for the safety of all United Nations personnel, he said.

It comes as no surprise that President Bush is wary of devoting American troops to a peacekeeping commitment in a post-Taliban Afghanistan (front page, Oct. 14).