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/* Police and Para-military forces */
'''Peacekeeper''' (or PeaceKeeper, Peace Keeper or Peace-Keeper) has many meanings:
Generally - Peacekeepers, although [[soldier]]s, are different from a traditional military force, in that peacekeepers, use minimal force, distribute [[humanitarian aid]], and on rare occasions take [[offensive action]].
Peacekeepers are generally viewed as an outside [[impartial]] [[third party]] force, who has no stake in the conflict, except in maintaining peace.
==Military personnel==
A peacekeeper can be a person involved in [[peacekeeping]]. This individual is always part of a larger force; examples:
* [[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]], [[Kosovo Force|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.
* [[IPKF|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 [[Kosovo Force|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.
[[Image:Eastern Caribbean Defense Force.jpg|thumb|right|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 (politics)|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 [[Cuba]]n resistance and overthrew the military government of [[Hudson Austin]].
==Police and Para-military forces==
* [[Peace officer]]
* [[Conservator of the Peace]]
* [[Taiwan police#Other_NPA_Units|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 (Republic of China)|National Police Agency]].
* [[International Peace Operations Association]] (IPOA) is a non-governmental trade and lobbying association representing the "peace and stability industry," sometimes referred to as [[private military companies]] (PMCs) or derogatorily by critics as [[mercenary|mercenaries]] ignoring the international legal definition as well as the actual role and variety of companies.
* [[Peacekeepers (Argentina)]]
* {{lang|ga|'''''[[Garda Síochána]] na hÉireann'''''}} ({{pronounced|ˈgaːrdə ʃiːˈxaːnə nə ˈheːɾʲən}}; [[Irish language|Irish]] for "Peace Guard<!--Garda is singular, not plural--> of Ireland", often rendered<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.garda.ie/angarda/history.html |title=Short History of An Garda Siochana |publisher=Garda Síochána |accessdate=2006-12-17 |quote=the Garda Síochána (meaning in English: "The Guardians of the Peace") }}</ref> as "The Guardians of the Peace of Ireland") is the [[police|police force]] of [[Republic of Ireland]].
==Military weapons and vehicles==
* [[LGM-118A Peacekeeper]] intercontinental ballistic missile ("MX Missile")
* [[Cadillac Gage Ranger|PeaceKeeper]] and [[Cadillac Gage Ranger|PeaceKeeper II]] armored fighting vehicles produced by [[Cadillac Gage]]
==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."
==Fictional groups==
* The [[Farscape Peacekeepers|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 [[pre-emptive stike]]s nor interfere in the internal affairs of individual countries.
* [[Peace Force]] - a paramilitary force featured in the books of [[David Weber]].
* [[Space Corps (Judge Dredd)|Space Corps]] The Space Corps of 2000AD's [[Judge Dredd]] comicstrip are a professional international army which deals with conflicts and peacekeeping away from Earth. They have appeared in several stories, most notably [[Judge Dredd: Mandroid]] and its sequel.
==Internet and video games==
* ''[[The Peace Keepers]]'' is a [[video game]] for the [[Super Nintendo Entertainment System]].
* ''[[Active Worlds]]'' [[Peacekeeper (Active Worlds)|Peacekeepers]][http://www.peacekeeper.net/] 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 [[Command & Conquer: Tiberium|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.
* In the upcoming [[Red Alert 3]], the [[Allies]]'s basic infantry unit is called the Peacekeeper, and carries a shotgun and riot shield.
==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]] (ISBN 978-0-595-46896-6). The book is about a U.N. peacekeeper's experience in the [[Democratic Republic of the Congo]]. The synopsis of the novel is:
Deep inside the jungles of Congo, Samir, on his peacekeeping mission, comes face to face with all the incredible challenges Africa has to offer. Cloaked in a cover of uncertainty, his only hope for surviving the mayhem of the brutal cannibals, gun-trotting child soldiers and the blood-thirsty belligerent rebels is his wit which he finds challenged every single day. As he lives through his ordeal, Africa surfaces to life with all her magnificence, seduction, gloom and gore from the pages of the books he read back home. Death hovers over his head like a cloud yet he is awed by the beauty of Africa, humored by the non-congruity of life and excited about his job of bringing peace in the war ravaged country.
Inside the Heart of Darkness—once again.
===[[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
**[http://books.google.com/books?id=sYWxR9hjOk8C&pg=PP1&dq=%22dennis+c.+jett%22&sig=lq_0lyMsK7rhNLqwmTEZo_r5ew0#PPR3,M1 ''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
==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 [[LGM-118A Peacekeeper|Peacekeeper]] missile.
==Other==
* [http://www.iamapeacekeeper.com/ PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics] - a line of cosmetics whose profits are used to support certain causes.
==See also==
*[[Peacemaker]]
==References==
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