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Definition of peacekeeping
: the preserving of peace; especially : international enforcement and supervision of a truce between hostile states or communities
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has sparked online furore over a tweet praising cuts made by the Trump administration to the organization's peacekeeping budget.
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Under former President Barack Obama, the US paid for about 30% of the UN's peacekeeping budget.
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That would have reduced the U.S. contribution to the peacekeeping fund by 10 percent.
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A multinational peacekeeping force backed by the UN was later dispatched to protect the civilians as the French troops battled jihadist groups.
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For example, the Pentagon deployed a small team of U.S. troops to the Syrian city of Manbij on a peacekeeping mission at best tangentially related to the fight against ISIS.
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Just before he was deployed to Kosovo in 1999 as part of a NATO peacekeeping mission, his father told him his mother was showing signs of Huntington’s.
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An investigation by The Associated Press last year showed that dozens of soldiers broke into the compound and terrorized residents and staff while the nearby United Nations peacekeeping mission did not respond to pleas for help.
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The government, with the support of a 12,000-strong U.N. peacekeeping mission, has been trying to calm the country that descended into sectarian fighting in 2013 when Muslim rebels overthrew the Christian president.
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First Known Use of peacekeeping
1910
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