Sentence examples for peacekeeping issues from inspiring English sources

"Five years ago you might not have been able to predict where they are now," said Edward C. Luck, dean of the School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego and a former senior United Nations adviser on peacekeeping issues.

"Most diplomats in a career of 40 years would never get this kind of opportunity to make such a difference at such a critical moment," said Edward C. Luck, the dean of the School of Peace Studies at the University of San Diego and a former senior United Nations adviser on peacekeeping issues.

"I would not discount the possibility that most of the security work will be done and continue to be done by the Afghans themselves, assuming the conflict with the Taliban up there is cleared up and the pockets of resistance vanish," said Joseph Collins, a deputy assistant secretary of defense who focuses on relief and peacekeeping issues.

"Obviously," Ms. Rice said, "the administration has some very hard work to do with Congress over the peacekeeping issue".

While the European plans for peacekeeping have been delayed for now at the insistence of the American military, the peacekeeping issue could re-emerge.

The emphasis on accepting peacekeepers will come on the heels of the UN Security Council's visit to Burundi last week, in which members failed to make any progress in convincing Nkurunziza on the peacekeeping issue.

NGOs have played an increasingly important role in the work of the UN's specialized agencies, especially in the areas of health, peacekeeping, refugee issues, and human rights.

The Security Council itself -- or at least its leading members -- are often the problem, said Lakhdar Brahimi, a former Algerian foreign minister who was chairman of the expert panel that studied overall United Nations peacekeeping and issued a critical report last month.

Mr. Blair's proposal would include Russia in developing and executing strategies against terrorism and arms proliferation and for peacekeeping, among other issues.

In an interview at the United Nations, Ms. Kane, a veteran United Nations diplomat from Germany who is an expert in peacekeeping and disarmament issues, offered a glimpse of the painstaking, perilous work her team, comprising chemical weapons specialists and doctors, undertakes as it seeks to establish whether and when banned weapons were used.

Peacekeeping and peacekeepers have to be issues decided by the Afghan people, not us".