Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it. — Dag Hammarskjold Copy Share Image
“If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run.” — Andrew Thomson Copy Share Image
Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world. — Michael McCaul Copy Share Image
The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping. — Miroslav Lajcak Copy Share Image
Our peacekeeping efforts should always make people the priority. — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
“Attending peace conference to represent a nation, is like attending freedom conference to represent a prison.” — 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
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
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
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
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
We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can… — Kendrick Meek Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalists radicalize children for illegal terrorism, nationalists radicalize children for legal terrorism, I radicalize children for peace-n-oneness.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Increased airlift capacity empowers peacekeeping missions to respond rapidly to threats against civilians, move freely to monitor and report on human rights… — Linda Thomas-Greenfield Copy Share Image
The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out,… — Bill Bradley 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
Consider that in a galaxy far, far away (otherwise known as the 1990s), President Clinton felt that he had to assure an… — Matt Welch 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
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
Today, we have more than 110,000 men and women deployed in conflict zones around the world. They come from nearly 120 countries… — Ban Ki-moon Copy Share Image
The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the… — Kofi Annan Copy Share Image
“In carrying out a peacekeeping mission where the grand strategy is to maintain peace and order by persuading armed parties or other… — Agus Harimurti Yudhoyono 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
“Bomb the world with music, pizza and poetry you idiots, not Semtex, C4 and RDX.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
“When you love the world like you love your family, that day you'll develop the peacemaker métier.” — 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
The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there… — Boutros Boutros-Ghali Copy Share Image
One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to… — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the… — Babatunde Osotimehin 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
Peace comes from being able to contribute the best that we have, and all that we are, toward creating a world that… — Hafsat Abiola Copy Share Image
I think, as Canadians, that's just as important as our peacekeeping service: We go out and find these stories that other people… — Kari Skogland Copy Share Image
We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds. — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“I'm not a natural killer ! See this? See what it says? I'm supposed to keep the peace, I am! If I… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Some make bombs for domination, Some make bombs for survival. Either way someone pushes a button, Innocents wind up dead as collateral.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
![“The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul.” quote by Khaled Hosseini](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4e3/khaled-hosseini-251_administration_the-george-w-bush-administration-tripled_2968888.png)
![“When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers.” quote by Kofi Annan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7f8/kofi-annan-799_comment_when-the-us-withdrew-their-troops-from-s_2606547.png)
