Call the blue helmets; Peacekeeping  

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The Economist (Editor)

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Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 382 no. 8510 (2007), page 22-23.
Topik: Peacekeeping forces; International organizations; International relations; Conflicts; Violence

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Call it peacekeeping, peace-enforcement, stabilisation or anything else, but one thing is clear: the world's soldiers are busier than ever operating in the wide grey zone between war and peace. The United Nations has seen a sixfold increase since 1998 in the number of soldiers and military observers it deploys around the world. About 74,000 military personnel are currently involved in 18 different operations--more than any country apart from the United States. And it is not just the UN that is in high demand. NATO, the European Union and the African Union (AU), as well as other coalitions of the willing, have some 74,000 soldiers trying to restore peace and stability in troubled countries. Added to their number come the more than 160,000 American, British and other troops in Iraq. The "war on terror" is one cause of this military hyperactivity. But Jean-Marie Guehenno, the UN's under-secretary for peacekeeping, says the growing demand for blue helmets is a good sign that a number of conflicts are ending.

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