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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... n. the active maintenance of a truce between nations or communities, especially by an international military force: the 2,300-strong U.N. peacekeeping force. peacekeeper ...
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Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
...peacekeeping operations are mandated by a recommendation, and not any binding decision, and the forces provided for the operation are volunteered by Member States. Past and extant peacekeeping operations appear in this Encyclopaedic Dictionary under their acronym; and see < www.un.org/Depts/dpko/dpko >. See Higgins , United Nations Peacekeeping 1946–67 , Vol. I, The Middle East ( 1969 ); Vol. II, Asia ( 1970 ); Vol. III, Africa ( 1980 ); Wiseman , Peacekeeping: Appraisals and Proposals ( 1984 ); Durch , The Evolution of U.N. Peacekeeping:...
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The New Oxford Companion to Law
... Peacekeeping is the term used to describe a particular kind of military operation conducted under the auspices of the United Nations (‘ UN ’). Peacekeeping, however, does not appear in the UN Charter as one of the grounds upon which recourse to force may be authorized, nor is peacekeeping included as one of the functions of the UN. Peacekeeping operations were created through the practices of the UN and its members. While the UN had installed observer missions involving military personnel in Palestine in 1948 and in India and Pakistan in 1949 ,...
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A Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics and International Relations (4 ed.)
... Intervention by a third party to separate and pacify participants in a conflict. The United Nations has performed peacekeeping operations since 1948 , when it sent military observers to Kashmir , to oversee the ceasefire between India and Pakistan, and the Middle East, in the aftermath of the Arab–Israeli conflict. Fifty years later the UN peacekeepers still had a presence in these regions. The number of UN peacekeeping operations has increased rapidly since the end of the Cold War , with involvement in Somalia, Rwanda , the Balkans , and...
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The Oxford Companion to Canadian History
... . The use of an impartial force of specialized personnel to ease tension and maintain stability between states or within a state; a major activity of the post- 1945 Canadian military, one that became a potent symbol of national identity. Although peacekeeping predated the Second World War, the term became synonymous with the efforts of the United Nations to manage conflict, and in 1988 the un 's peacekeepers were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Canada, one of the founders of un peacekeeping, took great pride in its record of participation in...
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The Oxford Companion to American Military History
...Peacekeeping at the Crossroads: National Support—Experience and Prospects , 1973. David W. Wainhouse , International Peace Observation: A History and Forecast , 1986. Paul F. Diehl , International Peacekeeping , 1993. William J. Durch , ed., The Evolution of UN Peacekeeping: Case Studies and Comparative Analysis , 1993. David R. Segal and Mady W. Segal , Peacekeepers and Their Wives: American Participation in the Multinational Force and Observers , 1993. Barbara Benton , Soldiers for Peace: Fifty Years of United Nations Peacekeeping , 1996....
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
... International Peacekeeping 3 (1996): 140. Robert A. Rubinstein International Peacekeeping Peacekeeping missions are widely seen as an appropriate international response to conflict and major humanitarian or human rights abuses. This entry will clarify the general structure of peacekeeping missions and some of the theory behind their deployment, will clarify the major international actors behind peacekeeping, and will discuss in general terms their ability to help create peace. Types of Peacekeeping Missions The character of peacekeeping missions varies...
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The Oxford Companion to Military History
... Peacekeeping is a term mainly used to describe actions sponsored by the UN . Peacekeeping operations are authorized by the Security Council, endowed by the UN Charter with primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. The Congo intervention was the only occasion where the UN tried to act as an independent power in its own right. A traditional peacekeeping operation is established when parties to a conflict, typically two states, agree to the interposition of UN troops to uphold a ceasefire. Limited numbers of lightly...
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A Dictionary of Politics and International Relations in India
... (for India) Activities carried out to engender conditions of peace in countries or regions affected by conflict, including implementing and monitoring ceasefires, peace processes, and peace treaties. India has carried out such activities in South Asia, including successfully in Nepal in 1950 , Sri Lanka in 1971 , and the Maldives in 1988 , but experienced absolute failure in another intervention—the Indian Peacekeeping Mission to Sri Lanka. Internationally, India regularly participates in United Nations Peacekeeping Operations . See also ...
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The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military
... mission the deployment of military forces, usually under U.N. or other international control, to prevent or deter further military action by the military or paramilitary forces of two opposing nations or...
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
...Peacekeeping . In the literature of peace research, the concept of “peacekeeping” describes one of three complementary strategies for tackling violent conflict. Peacekeeping is aimed at reducing the overt violence of the parties involved, while peacemaking is aimed at bringing the parties together to reach an agreement, and peacebuilding is the attempt to tackle the root causes of the conflict. Over the years these terms have come into common usage but with a variety of meanings attached to them. Because of its association with the large-scale peacekeeping...
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Peace
...Peacekeeping is an instrument of international action: the broadest level at which culture matters here is how the international community conceives of and uses peacekeeping. Models of UN peacekeeping have changed over the sixty years of its existence. Current work suggests, for instance, that peacekeeping missions are currently being used to enforce a Western vision of governance, including particular understandings of “free and fair elections,” the promotion of market economies, and the reinforcement of political asymmetries around the world. Peacekeeping is...
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The Oxford Companion to Australian Military History (2 ed.)
..., Australia And Australia has been a consistent supporter of multinational peacekeeping, most often under the auspices of the United Nations ( UN ). There have been Australian peacekeepers in the field continuously since 1947 , and for the last quarter of the twentieth century peacekeeping was by far the most significant form of Australian military engagement overseas. Australians have served in many roles in over 50 multinational peacekeeping operations, in nearly 30 theatres of conflict. A complete list of Australian peacekeeping missions is...
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Catherine Soanes
Dictionary Plus Society and Culture
...United Nations Peacekeeping Peacekeeping is a central function of the UN. Member states voluntarily provide military, police, and civilian personnel to be deployed as directed by the Department of Peacekeeping Operations. UN forces act as impartial third parties and seek to maintain peace in armed conflicts around the world. The first UN peacekeeping action dates to 1948 , when unarmed military observers were sent to Israel to monitor a ceasefire between that state and its Arab neighbours. Catherine...
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A Dictionary of Politics and International Relations in India
...Peacekeeping Force ( IPKF ) A military contingent sent to Sri Lanka from 1987 to 1990 that aimed to end the island’s civil war at that time. Initially intended purely as a peacekeeping force, Indian troops became quickly embroiled in the civil war, which led to 1,200 troop losses and several thousand casualties, and is frequently referred to as India’s ‘Vietnam’. See also Gandhi, Rajiv ; Indira Doctrine...
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Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3 ed.)
...of Peacekeeping Operations Established under Secretary-General Boutros-Ghali's Agenda for Peace of 17 June 1992 ( U.N. Doc. A/47/277–S/24111 ), the U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operations ( DPKO ) provides strategic direction, management, and guidance to U.N. peacekeeping operations around the world. The Department was significantly reorganized in 2007 to give effect to recommendations from the Secretary-General, based, in part on the recommendations contained in the Brahimi Report on U.N. Peace Operations of 17 August 2000 : U.N....
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Luc Reychler
The International Studies Encyclopedia
...and third-generation peacekeeping, humanitarian intervention, complex peace operations, wider peacekeeping, peace enforcement, peace support operations, peace maintenance, etc. This is not primarily the result of intellectual laziness on the part of researchers or practitioners. Virtually any one has a personal sense of what peace operations are, but they are usually perceived as activities with extremely flexible boundaries ( MacQueen 2006 ). The research of peace operations focuses on several dimensions: (1) the peacekeeping and support tasks, (2) the...
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A Dictionary of Politics and International Relations in India
...Nations Peacekeeping Operations (for India) Actions carried out by a major global institution to help generate conditions for lasting peace in countries that have experienced conflict. They are conducted under the auspices of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations in order to fulfil a central mandate of the United Nations Charter that demands that its members act collectively to maintain international peace and stability. India has been involved in such operations since their inception, including in Korea, Vietnam, Belgian Congo, and Suez, and its...
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A Dictionary of Politics and International Relations in China
...United Nations Peacekeeping Operations ( in relation to China ) Actions carried out by the major global institution to help generate conditions for lasting peace in countries that have experienced conflict. They are conducted under the auspices of the UN’s Department of Peacekeeping Operations in order to fulfil a central mandate of the UN charter that demands that its members collectively act to maintain international peace and stability. China has been involved in such operations since 1981 , contributing more personnel than any other Permanent 5 ...
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World Encyclopedia
...Nations peace-keeping force Military personnel and their equipment placed at the United Nations ' disposal by member states. The function of the force is to keep the peace between warring factions anywhere in the world, as requested by the United Nations Security Council . The first UN peace-keeping forces deployed in the Sinai Peninsula and Beirut in June 1948 . The greatest deployment of UN peace-keeping forces was in Bosnia during the...
