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Peacekeeping is a hot topic these days.

PEACEKEEPING is a thankless task, but the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) has proved more controversial than most.

Both the Pentagon and UK Ministry of Defence believe "peacekeeping" is a misnomer because any troop deployment will inevitably end in fighting.

The result, in "Peacekeeping," is a cynicism about Haitian politics that the author himself may not quite share, and may not have fully intended — a toughened, macho realism that is the mutant offspring of good knowledge and good technique.

"Peacekeeping" is a dirty word at the Rumsfeld Pentagon: its peacekeeping division was renamed the Office of Stability Operations, and its importance was downgraded, even after war created the need for such an operation in Afghanistan and then again, on an even larger scale, in Iraq.

Peacekeeping is a unique global partnership, and we will only succeed with the firm political support and commitment of resources from our troop and police contributing countries.

That is low by Western standards but, until recently, peacekeeping was a relatively good deal for Bangladesh, Pakistan and India, the three leading contributors.

Attempts at rider-driver peacekeeping were a theme of Ms. Crotty's presentation, despite one aside in which she extolled the "8,000 reasons why riding a bike is superior to driving a car".

Condoleezza Rice, who became Mr. Bush's national security adviser, said peacekeeping was a task better left to the Europeans or other allies while the Pentagon concentrated on training and fighting the nation's wars.

But for many, the privatisation of peacekeeping is still a step too far.

The end is political stability and peacekeeping is just a tool to bring about political stability.