Definition of "peacekeeping" []

• Of or relating to the preservation of peace, especially the supervision by international forces of a truce between hostile nations. (adjective)

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• "In the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juarez, business leaders are so concerned about spiraling drug cartel-related violence that they have asked the United Nations to send in peacekeeping soldiers to restore calm."
• "The Lord-High-Everything-Else wants an emasculated Scotland to be an expert in peacekeeping, reports The Scotsman:"
• "You'd think Democrats were already pounding John McCain for allegedly saying that he wants the Iraq war to continue for 100 more years, when all he really said was that he doesn't much mind if a long-term peacekeeping force remains in Iraq as long as the shooting has stopped."