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  2. United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Likewise, Georgetown University professor Lise Howard argues that UN peacekeeping operations are more effective by virtue of their lack of compelling force; rather, their use of nonviolent methods such as "verbal persuasion, financial inducements and coercion short of offensive military force, including surveillance and arrest" are likelier to ...

  3. What is UNIFIL, the peacekeeping force on the Israel-Lebanon ...

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    While UNIFIL is a peacekeeping mission, troops can use force in certain circumstances, including self-defense, to protect civilians under the imminent threat of violence and to protect UN ...

  4. Forced marriage - Wikipedia

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    The United Nations views forced marriage as a form of human rights abuse, since it violates the principle of the freedom and autonomy of individuals. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that a person's right to choose a spouse and enter freely into marriage is central to their life and dignity , and their equality as a human being ...

  5. Use of force in international law - Wikipedia

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    The use of force by states is controlled by both customary international law and by treaty law. [1] The UN Charter reads in article 2(4): . All members shall refrain in their international relations from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state, or in any other manner inconsistent with the purposes of the United Nations.

  6. Turkey's Erdogan says UN should recommend use of force if ...

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    "The U.N. General Assembly should rapidly implement the authority to recommend the use of force, as it did with the 1950 Uniting for Peace resolution, if the Security Council can't show the ...

  7. Peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    To reduce uncertainty and fear the UN Peacekeeping force can monitor the aforementioned compliance, facilitate communication between belligerents in order to ease security dilemma concerns thus reassuring belligerents that the other side will not renege, and allow for belligerents to signal their legitimate intentions for peace to the other side.

  8. UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses ... - AOL

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    800-290-4726 more ways to reach us. Sign in. Mail. ... UN mission says both Sudan sides committed abuses, peacekeepers needed ... A U.N.-mandated peacekeeping force was a possibility, she added. ...

  9. List of United Nations peacekeeping missions - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of United Nations peacekeeping missions since the United Nations was founded in 1945, organized by region, with the dates of deployment, the name of the related conflict, and the name of the UN operation. Peacekeeping, as defined by the United Nations, is a way to help countries torn by conflict create conditions for sustainable ...