Face Quote by Antonio Guterres

The work of U.N. peacekeepers is critical to maintaining international peace and security.

— Linda Thomas-Greenfield

Working with the UN's diplomacy and development arms, we can prevent minor differences from escalating into wars. When conflicts do break out, UN peacekeepers…

— Bill Bradley

Peacekeeping is not a job for soldiers, but only soldiers can do it.

— Dag Hammarskjold

Again, we saw in Bosnia - we had U.N. peacekeepers tied to trees, being taken hostage. The fact is they don't have the type…

— Anonymous

One of the enduring mysteries of America's occupation of Iraq is why a nation that so little relishes peacekeeping nonetheless refuses to turn the…

— Timothy Noah

I do believe that the United Nations needs to have more exacting, more enhanced professional standards for the military peacekeepers that are deployed.

— Anonymous

We send our [peacekeepers] off to some disputed zone, full of local intrigue and power blocs and uncertainty and danger, and they are supposed…

— Romeo LeBlanc

I think fundamentally the bigger question is, what are we expecting peacekeepers to do? Are they actually, as the traditional conception would have it,…

— Rebecca Hamilton

Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They are very…

— Kofi Annan

“Until the common civilians become peacemakers and peacekeepers, no United Nations is gonna succeed in making peace.”

— Abhijit Naskar

The U.N.'s impartiality allows it to negotiate and operate in some of the toughest places in the world. And time and again, studies have…

— Ban Ki-moon

The U.N. must have adequate resources and the right capabilities to fully engage in global peacekeeping.

— Miroslav Lajcak