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  2. Peace enforcement - Wikipedia

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    Peace enforcement is the use of various tactics, most notably military force to compel peace in a conflict, generally against the will of combatants. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Peace enforcement missions permit the use of non-defensive armed force, unlike peacekeeping operations.

  3. United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    United Nations peacekeeping was initially developed during the Cold War as a means of resolving conflicts between states by deploying unarmed or lightly armed military personnel from a number of countries, commanded by the UN, to areas where warring parties were in need of a neutral party to observe the peace process.

  4. Peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Peace-enforcement, meant to act with or without the consent of the belligerents in order to ensure any treaty or cease-fire mandated by the United Nations Security Council is maintained. This is done primarily under the auspices of Chapter VII of the UN Charter and the forces are generally heavily armed as opposed to the unarmed, or lightly ...

  5. Military operations other than war - Wikipedia

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    They generally include peacekeeping, peacebuilding, disaster response, humanitarian aid, military engineering, law enforcement, arms control, deterrence, and multilateralism. The phrase and acronym were coined by the United States Armed Forces in the 1990s, but it has since fallen out of use.

  6. Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter - Wikipedia

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    Most Chapter VII resolutions (1) determine the existence of a threat to the peace, a breach of the peace, or an act of aggression in accordance with Article 39, and (2) make a decision explicitly under Chapter VII. However, not all resolutions are that explicit, there is disagreement about the Chapter VII status of a small number of resolutions.

  7. History of United Nations peacekeeping - Wikipedia

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    Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for his work in establishing UN peacekeeping operations. UNEF was the first official armed peacekeeping operation modeled on Pearson's ideas. [ 8 ] Since 1956, most UN peacekeeping forces, including those called "observer" missions, have been armed.

  8. Feds find Worcester, Massachusetts police used force, had ...

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    WORCESTER, Mass. – Local police in this central Massachusetts city used excessive force and engaged in “outrageous” sexual contact with women during undercover operations, a two-year civil ...

  9. United Nations Force Intervention Brigade - Wikipedia

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    While it is the first mission of its kind, the mandate of the Force Intervention Brigade stresses that it is not intended to establish “a precedent or any prejudice to the agreed principles of peacekeeping.” [91] Still, UN peace-enforcement mandates now exist outside of the Congo, in missions including Mali's MINUSMA and the Central African ...