Peacekeeper (or PeaceKeeper, Peace Keeper or Peace-Keeper) has many meanings: Generally - Peacekeepers, although soldiers, are different than a traditional military force, in that peacekeepers, use minimal force, distribute humanitarian aid, and on rare occasions take offensive action. This article is about a military rank. ... Humanitarian aid arriving by plane at Rinas Airport in Albania in the summer of 1999. ...

Peacekeepers are generally viewed as an outside impartial third party force, who has no stake in the conflict, except in maintaining peace. Impartiality is a principle of justice holding that decisions should be based on objective criteria, rather then on the basis of bias, prejudice, or preferring the benefit to one person over another for improper reasons. ... In a two-party system a third party is a party other than the two dominant ones. ...

Military personnel

A peacekeeper can be a person involved in peacekeeping. This individual is always part of a larger force; examples: It has been suggested that this article be split into multiple articles accessible from a disambiguation page. ...

• UN Peacekeeping falls under the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO) an agency of the United Nations which is charged with the planning, preparation, management and direction of any UN peacekeeping operations.
• NATO peacekeeping
  • In Former Yugoslavia - IFOR, SFOR, KFOR
• Inter-American Peace Force - Established, by the Organization of American States, on 23 May 1965, after America's intervention in the Dominican Republic, it largely consisted of over 42,600 United States military personnel, plus the following troops were sent by each country; Brazil 1130, Honduras 250, Paraguay 184, Nicaragua 160, Costa Rica 21 military police, and El Salvador 3 staff officers. Brazil eventually took over from the United States.
• Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka.
• Multinational Force and Observers (MFO) in the Sinai
• EUFOR - European Union Force, a temporary military deployment, not a permanent military force, and should not be confused with the Eurocorps or the Helsinki Headline Goal Force Catalogue, sometime misleadingly known as the 'European Rapid Reaction Force'. The name probably was patterned in imitation of NATO's IFOR, SFOR, and KFOR.
• Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion or POLUKRBAT is a Polish-Ukrainian peacekeeping battalion, formed in the late 1990s expressly "for participation in international peace-keeping and humanitarian operations under the auspices of international organizations".[1]
• International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) was a multinational peacekeeping taskforce, mandated by the United Nations to address the humanitarian and security crisis which took place in East Timor from 1999–2000 until the arrival of United Nations peacekeepers.
• Multinational Force in Lebanon
• Multinational Force Iraq
• Arab Deterrent Force, a Pan-Arab peacekeeping force in Lebanon, it consisted of 40,000 men, with 35,000 Syrians and 5,000 from Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf states, Libya, and Sudan. Authorized by the Arab League in 1976 and their authorization expired in 1983.

Members of the Eastern Caribbean Peace Force.

• Caribbean Peace Force (CPF) aka Eastern Caribbean Peace Force (ECPF), was an OECS mandated 350-member Force operating in Grenada, from October 1983 to June 1985, after the Invasion of Grenada, codenamed Operation Urgent Fury, by the United States of America and several other nations in response to the illegal deposition and execution of Grenadan Prime Minister Maurice Bishop. On October 25, 1983, the United States, Barbados, Jamaica and members of the Organization of Eastern Caribbean States landed ships on Grenada, defeated Grenadian and Cuban resistance and overthrew the military government of Hudson Austin.

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Unit badge Polish-Ukrainian Peace Force Battalion or POLUKRBAT is a Polish-Ukrainian peacekeeping battalion, formed in late 1990s expressly for participation in international peace-keeping and humanitarian operations under the auspices of international organizations.[1] The battalion can be used in international missions approved by the UN Security Council... Australian soldiers and an ASLAV in East Timor in 1999. ... The Multinational Force in Lebanon (also MNF) was an international peacekeeping force created in 1982 and sent to Lebanon to oversee the withdrawal of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. ... Multi-National Force - Iraq (MNF-I) replaced Combined Joint Task Force 7 on May 15, 2004. ... Arab Deterrent Force As the Lebanese Civil War escalated in 1976, the Arab League created an intervention force composed almost entirely of Syrian forces with token contributions from other Arab states, including Saudi Arabia and Libya. ... 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Norman Schwarzkopf Hudson Austin Pedro Tortolo Strength 7,300 Grenada: 1,500 regulars Cuba: about 722 (mostly military engineers)[1] Casualties 19 killed; 116 wounded[2... Motto: (traditional) In God We Trust (official, 1956–present) Anthem: The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City Official language(s) None at the federal level; English de facto Government Federal Republic  - President George W. Bush (R)  - Vice President Dick Cheney (R) Independence - Declared - Recognized... Deposition by political means concerns the removal of a politician. ... Maurice Bishop Maurice Rupert Bishop (May 29, 1944 – October 19, 1983) was a Grenadian revolutionary leader. ... is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1983 (MCMLXXXIII) was a common year starting on Saturday (link displays the 1983 Gregorian calendar). ... 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Police and Para-military forces

• Peace officer
• Conservator of the Peace
• Peace Preservation Police Corps of the Taiwan police. There are 7 individual Special Police Corps, under the "Headquarters of Peace Preservation Police Corps"(保安警察總隊). They are the mobile police forces of Taiwan's National Police Agency.

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Military weapons and vehicles

• LGM-118A Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile ("MX Missile")
• PeaceKeeper and PeaceKeeper II armored fighting vehicles produced by Cadillac Gage

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Other groups

• Peace Corps - purpose of the Peace Corps is "to promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall make available to interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified for service abroad and willing to serve, under conditions of hardship if necessary, to help the peoples of such countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained manpower."

It has been suggested that Crisis corps be merged into this article or section. ...

Fictional groups

• The Peacekeepers are a military and law enforcement organization in the Farscape science fiction drama.
• The Peacekeepers are a law enforcement organization in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast Forward cartoon series.
• The International Peacekeeping Force is a fictional military agency in Ben Bova's novel Peacekeeper. It's mandate is to contain and then stop all wars, nuclear or conventional, once they cross national boundaries. They cannot conduct preemptive stikes nor interfere in the internal affairs of individual countries.
• Peace Force - a paramilitary force featured in the books of David Weber.

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Internet and video games

• The Peace Keepers is a video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
• Active Worlds Peacekeepers[1] protect others from abuse, harassment, or other violations such as vandalism within AW public worlds.
• In the Xbox 360 game Crackdown, Peacekeepers are the only form of policing left in Pacific City.
• In the strategy game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri one of the playable factions is called the Peacekeepers, acting as a UN type representative on a colonised planet in the future.
• Global Defense Initiative is a fictional militarized branch of the United Nations which is featured prominently in the Tiberium series of Westwood Studios' Command & Conquer real-time strategy video games. It is a globalised and multinational military task force, which has the political means to be able of silently hamstringing anything from local ethnic unrest to regionalized armed conflicts across the globe, and was given as its primary objective the ensuring no fledgling confrontations would ever escalate into a continental or worldwide emergency.

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Books

Fiction

• The Peacekeepers is a science fiction novel set in the Star Trek Expanded Universe.
• Peacekeepers is a science fiction novel written by Ben Bova. It is about an International Peacekeeping force created to prevent all types of wars from crossing international boundaries.
• The Peacekeeper is a novel written by Shabbir Ahsan. The book is about a U.N. peacekeeper's experience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

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Non-Fiction

• The Psychology of the Peacekeeper: Lessons from the Field (Psychological Dimensions to War and Peace) by Thomas W. Britt, 344 pages, by: Praeger Publishers; 1 edition (September 30, 2003)
• Why Peacekeeping Fails by Dennis C. Jett 256 pages, by: Palgrave Macmillan; New Ed edition (April 6, 2001) ISBN-10: 0312239424 ISBN-13: 978-0312239428
  • Why Peacekeeping Fails from Google Books
• PEACEKEEPER - the Road to Sarajevo, by Major-General Lewis MacKenzie, by: Harper Collins (1994) ISBN-10: 0006380492 and ISBN-13: 978-0006380498

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Music

• Peacekeeper is a 2003 U.S. Top 3, UK Top 6 song from Fleetwood Mac's album Say You Will. Its lyrics allude to the Peacekeeper missile.

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Other

• PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics - a line of cosmetics whose profits are used to support certain causes.

See also

• Peacemaker

PeaceMaker is a 1997 self-released demo by Sonata Arctica (under the name Tricky Beans). ...

References

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