Comment Quote by Kofi Annan

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no…

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

Too often, U.N. peacekeepers face an impossible task in countries that are still at war and where there is no real peace to keep.

— Antonio Guterres

When a peacekeeping operation is deployed, it is in support of a political process, it is part of an integrated approach. It is there…

— Jean-Marie Guehenno

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

— Dag Hammarskjold

Sometimes in peacekeeping operations you show force in order not to use force - people realise that there's a pushback and there's a solid…

— Kofi Annan

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

Peace enforcement is a much more difficult kind of operation than peacekeeping.

— Harri Holkeri

I think that peacekeeping can do quite a lot, if they are given the right mandate with the commensurate resources to get the job…

— Kofi Annan

I don't want to force the peacekeeping nations to feel like I'm pushing them out.

— Michel Martelly

Peacekeeping funds are an important and necessary part of what America does for humanity and the rest of the world.

— Michael McCaul

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

The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise…

— Sun Tzu