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noun peace·keep·ing \ˈpēs-ˌkē-piŋ\

Definition of peacekeeping

: the preserving of peace; especially : international enforcement and supervision of a truce between hostile states or communities

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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.

— bob young, chicagotribune.com, "Huntington’s disease is going to kill him, but this Wash. scientist is tackling it head-on", 2 June 2017
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.

— cassandra vinograd, The Seattle Times, "Central African Republic killings send entire town fleeing", 27 May 2017
Strapped for troops, the U.N. draws recruits from many countries with poor human rights records for its peacekeeping program, budgeted at nearly $8 billion this year.

— Washington Post, "UN Peacekeepers: How a Haiti child sex ring was whitewashed", 27 May 2017
Wivina Belmonte, a U.N. spokeswoman, said a team of seven from the U.N. department of peacekeeping operations in New York would assess logistic and security arrangements in Kabul.

— associated press, WIRED, "Hunt for Bin Laden Intensifies", 9 Dec. 2001

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