#peacekeeping

We are the biggest donor to the United Nations, contributing 22 percent of the regular operating budget and nearly 27 percent of the peacekeeping budget. ↗

— Cliff Stearns

#budget #contributing #donor #nations #nearly

The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second. ↗

— Aberjhani

#life-lessons #love #peace #peacekeeping #philosophy

If blue helmeted UN peacekeepers show up in your town or village and offer to protect you, run. ↗

— Andrew Thomson

#peacekeeping #thought-provoking #un #thought-provoking

Britain does not normally these days play a huge part in peacekeeping. ↗

— William Hague

#days #does #huge #normally #part

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

— Harri Holkeri

#enforcement #kind #more #much #operation

Over the past year, several cases of human rights abuses, specifically sexual exploitation and abuse, by individuals involved in U.N. peacekeeping operations have raised the suspicions of many Members of Congress and members of the International Relations Committee. ↗

— Michael McCaul

#cases #committee #congress #exploitation #human

The change began in Somalia, where we discovered that we were involved in an operation where there was no peace, so there was no more a peacekeeping operation because there was no peace. ↗

— Boutros Boutros-Ghali

#began #change #discovered #involved #more

We need to begin an all-out diplomatic offensive on Darfur in order to prepare the way for a peacekeeping force that can ensure protection for the people of Darfur. ↗

— Kendrick Meek

#begin #darfur #diplomatic #ensure #for the people