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• n  a member of a military force that is assigned (often with international sanction) to preserve peace in a trouble area
• n  someone who keeps peace
  she's the peacekeeper in that family
• n  the pistol of a law officer in the old West

• Russia cannot play a constructive role as peacekeeper.

News & Articles

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• Press Releases: Indiscriminate Bombing Kills UN Peacekeeper in Sudan
  Indiscriminate Bombing Kills UN Peacekeeper in Sudan Press Statement Jen Psaki Spokesperson , Office of the Spokesperson Washington, DC June 17, 2013 The United States strongly condemns the shelling of the Joint Border Verification and Monitoring Mechanism (JBVMM) interim headquarters today in Kadugli, Sudan’s Southern Kordofan state reportedly by elements of the Sudan People’s Liberation ...
  June 17, 2013 - U.S. Department of State
• Sudan rebels say hit area where peacekeeper killed
  KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudanese rebels said they attacked a city where a United Nations peacekeeper was killed on Friday but that they hit only government military targets in the oil-rich area. The Sudanese government blamed the attack on the Sudanese Revolutionary Front (SRF), an umbrella group of insurgent forces that aims to topple President Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The Sudan People's Liberation ...
  June 15, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News
• U.N. says peacekeeper killed in shelling in Sudan oil region
  NEW YORK (Reuters) - A United Nations peacekeeper was killed on Friday in Sudan's main oil region when shells struck a United Nations logistics base, a U.N. spokesman said. The slain peacekeeper was from Ethiopia, U.N. spokesman Kieran Dwyer said, adding that two other Ethiopian peacekeepers were injured in the shelling. He said the U.N. base in Kadugli, capital of South Kordofan state, is used ...
  June 14, 2013 - Reuters via Yahoo! News

Quotes

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• David Emerson in Edmonton Sun
  Rather than acting as a neutral peacekeeper, Russia has escalated the hostilities through its attacks on Georgian towns and cities outside the conflict zone,Canada's Foreign Affairs Minister David Emerson said in a statement. "Canada calls...
• Fredi Gonzalez in SI.com
  It's something I shouldn't have done, but I'd rather not let the stuff escalate more than it was,Gonzalez said. "I think Major League Baseball saw that I was more of a peacekeeper and not trying to instigate stuff."
• Barack Obama in Reuters
  The current escalation of military conflict resulted in part from the lack of a neutral and effective peacekeeping force operating under an appropriate UN mandate,Obama said. "Russia cannot play a constructive role as peacekeeper."