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I hate to repeat myself, but if there is no peace to keep you cannot send in "peacekeepers". According to the Sudan Tribune article I quote on a parallel thread, this proposed UN force would be Police and Military Police. Now a fighting force.

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by Migeru (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Mon Sep 4th, 2006 at 11:38:37 AM EST
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migeru wrote:
if there is no peace to keep you cannot send in "peacekeepers".

"Peacekeepers" can have either a Chapter VI mandate for peacekeeping (=keeping the peace) or a Chapter VII for peaceenforcement (trying to create peace, where none exists).

The bluehelmets operating under a Chapter VII peace enforcement mandate are also called "Peacekeepers".

"Peaceenforcers" would be a better term, but the charta (?) and everybody only refer to them as "Peacekeepers".


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by Atlantic Review (bl -at- atlanticreview dot org) on Mon Sep 4th, 2006 at 12:15:37 PM EST
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