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peacekeeper

[ pees-kee-per ]

noun

  1. a person who maintains or restores peace and amity; mediator:

    Mother was the peacekeeper in our family.

  2. a soldier, military force, etc., deployed to maintain or restore peace:

    American marines sent abroad as peacekeepers.



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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of peacekeeper1

First recorded in 1570–80; peace + keeper
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Military chiefs from both the UK and France met Zelensky in Kyiv on Friday to discuss plans for foreign peacekeepers to be stationed in Ukraine as part of a potential ceasefire deal.

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The idea that one is always sort of the victim, the perpetrator, the peacekeeper.

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UN peacekeepers are there trying to safeguard a peace deal that is fraying at the edges, with warnings the world's newest country is about to plunge into another civil war.

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The UN mission, which oversees an estimated 18,000 peacekeepers in South Sudan, was engaging in intense shuttle diplomacy to try and prevent a return to civil war, Mr Haysom added.

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The paragraph also contains a vague and lukewarm reference to the idea of European peacekeepers, which have been pitched by the UK and France, with the line attributed only to the Ukrainian delegation.

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