peacekeeping
[pees-kee-ping]
- the maintenance of international peace and security by the deployment of military forces in a particular area: the United Nations' efforts toward peacekeeping.
- an instance of this.
- for or pertaining to peacekeeping: peacekeeping forces.
Origin of peacekeeping
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Examples from the Web for peacekeeping
Contemporary Examples
Because of this, the peacekeeping forces have been blocking Muslims from leaving on envoys out of the country.
The United Nations peacekeeping force, MONUSCO, is the largest and best-funded in the world.
The U.N. peacekeeping battalion of Indian soldiers fired warning shots, but failed to halt the angry mob.
Before There’s a Genocide: The Slaughter in South Sudan Must StopJustine Fleischner, John Prendergast
April 23, 2014
Will they be insisting on American peacekeeping forces, and billions of dollars in American aid?
Any international effort to get a peacekeeping force into Syria will need Turkish assistance and bases.
Historical Examples
It is also true that certain operations such as peacekeeping tend to be manpower intensive.
Shock and AweHarlan K. Ullman
They include the increasingly familiar peacemaking, peacekeeping, show of force, and humanitarian relief efforts.
Shock and AweHarlan K. Ullman
peacekeeping
- the maintenance of peace, esp the prevention of further fighting between hostile forces in an area
- (as modifier)a UN peacekeeping force
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