peace enforcement

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“We will never have a mandate to do peace enforcement, which is another name for war,” Lacroix said.

From Seattle Times • May 29, 2024

Agenda for Peace, he said, calls for “a new generation of peace enforcement missions and counter-terrorist operations, led by regional forces,” with a U.N.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 6, 2023

“If peacekeeping is to be seen as peace enforcement, then unfortunately we can’t see the UN charter allowing such a radical departure of the use of peacekeeping.”

From The Guardian • Sep. 27, 2015

With U.N. peacekeeping missions in Congo and in Sudan's Darfur each costing global taxpayers well over $1 billion a year, the AU's Lamamra said Africa cannot be expected to bankroll its own peace enforcement.

From Reuters • May 26, 2013

Yet the fundamental problem of peace enforcement is not the means available; it is the will to use them.

From Time Magazine Archive