“There is no force in the world equal to the U.N. to bring resources and expertise to people in crisis.” — R. Quejas-Risdon Copy Share Image
“I was surprised that peacekeeping involved killing so many people, but it is what it is.” — Craig Alanson Copy Share Image
“Peace is not the absence of violence, peace is an act of controlled violence.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The United States is a steadfast supporter of U.N. Peacekeeping. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
The UN wasn't created to take mankind into paradise, but rather, to save humanity from hell. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. — William Hague Copy Share Image
“Life had a hair-trigger feel to it. At any moment any dispute could escalate into shooting” — R. Quejas-Risdon Copy Share Image
“Nationalist chimps sell war in the name of security, Stoneage civilians rush to bulk-buy graveyard plots. Merchant of murder, you, yell about… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If blue-helmeted U.N. peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. Or else get weapons. Your… — Kenneth Cain Copy Share Image
“Borders don't preserve peace, borders only breed war. All peace is fiction till we treat every border as Donald Trump's wall.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
As one of the leading troop-contributing countries, Ethiopia attaches great importance to strengthening the role of United Nations peacekeeping to address challenges… — Hailemariam Desalegn Copy Share Image
Kofi Annan was the U.N. Under-Secretary General for peacekeeping operations. He had the responsibilities in regards to the mounting and operation of… — Romeo Dallaire Copy Share Image
I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Life is what happens when we are busy doing other things. Peace is not something you wish for; it's something you make,… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
We in the Philippines know we have to perform our own role in terms of promoting peace in the world. We are… — Benigno Aquino III Copy Share Image
“Two unwritten rules of peacekeeping existed. You’d expect it would be easy to keep two rules, but I broke the first one.… — Tammy Pemper Copy Share Image
When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
Well, Nigeria has played a constructive role in peacekeeping in various parts of West Africa. But unless and until Nigeria itself is… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
The primary, the fundamental, the essential purpose of the United Nations is to keep peace. Everything it does which helps prevent World… — Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr Copy Share Image
For all the civilians saved thanks to the presence of peacekeepers, there have been those who were lost - the United Nations… — Jan Eliasson Copy Share Image
To many, peace is what enables development and is critical in providing opportunities to young people. To some - especially those from… — Yuna Kim Copy Share Image
We have before us the opportunity to forge, for ourselves and for future generations, a New World Order. A world where the… — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“At first glance, one might assume that a peacekeeping soldier from Pakistan, a diplomat from the United States, and a human rights… — Severine Autesserre Copy Share Image
“When you love the world like you love your family, that day you'll develop the peacemaker métier.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Bomb the world with music, pizza and poetry you idiots, not Semtex, C4 and RDX.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Until the common civilians become peacemakers and peacekeepers, no United Nations is gonna succeed in making peace.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out. — Michel Martelly Copy Share Image
My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function. — George H. W. Bush Copy Share Image
Nonviolent Peaceforce ...is building a large-scale professional force of well-trained unarmed peacekeepers ... This nonviolent peacekeeping provides an alternative to which we… — Mel Duncan Copy Share Image
Peacekeeping works in some situations, but it very often needs other ingredients. Peacekeeping is not the aspirin of international security. — Jean-Marie Guehenno Copy Share Image
Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention;… — Susan Rice Copy Share Image
If half a century of living has taught me anything at all, it has taught me that nothing can bring you peace… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“As a Jedi, Jennir was a peacekeeper – protecting the innocent – supporting the laws of the Republic… but without law –… — Randy Stradley Copy Share Image
We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of… — Cliff Stearns Copy Share Image
Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants… — Samantha Power Copy Share Image
A world without the United Nations or with a paralyzed United Nations would be far more costly to all of us and… — Richard Holbrooke Copy Share Image
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