Peacekeeping Quotes - Page 3

• Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Helping Others, Creating, Mind

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.11, Tharpa Publications UK

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• We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Yoga, Mind, Wish

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.11, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Without inner peace, outer peace is impossible.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Yoga, Inner Peace, Impossible

  Kelsang Gyatso (2001). “Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey”, p.11, Tharpa Publications UK

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• Love the moment and the energy of that moment will spread beyond all boundaries.

  Corita Kent

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• Anger cannot be overcome by anger. If someone is angry with you, and you show anger in return, the result is a disaster. On the other hand, if you control your anger and show its opposite - love, compassion, tolerance and patience - not only will you remain peaceful, but the other person's anger will also diminish.

  Dalai Lama

  Compassion, Hands, Opposites

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• Peace is not just a colored ribbon. It's more than a wristband or a t-shirt. It's not just a donation or a 5 K race. It's not just a folk song, or a white dove. And peace is certainly more than a celebrity endorsement. Peace is a fulltime job. It's protecting civilians, overseeing elections, and disarming ex-combatants. The UN has over 100,000 Peacekeepers on the ground, in places others can't or won't go, doing things others can't or won't do. Peace, like war, must be waged.

  George Clooney

  Song, Peace, Jobs

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• The United Nations is our one great hope for a peaceful and free world.

  Ralph Bunche

  Love, Peace, World

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• Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They are very hesitant about putting their men and women in harm's way. It is extremely difficult to get the troops if you do not have the consent of the country where you are deploying.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Men, Want

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• When the US withdrew their troops from Somalia, I recall making a comment that [in] the way the peacekeepers had been withdrawn from Somalia, the impression had been given that the easiest way to unravel a peacekeeping operation is to kill a few soldiers.

  Kofi Annan

  Soldier, Troops, Way

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• My vision of a 'new world order' foresees a United Nations with a revitalized peacekeeping function.

  George H. W. Bush

  Order, America, Vision

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• I believe that a country, Russia in this case, which can defend the honour and dignity of its citizens, protect their lives, and fulfill its international legal commitments under the peacekeeping mandate, will not find itself in isolation, no matter what our partners in Europe or the United States may think, expressing their bloc mentality.

  Vladimir Putin

  Country, Believe, Commitment

  Source: russialist.org

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• Let's recall Bosnia in 1995. As we know well, the European peacekeeping contingent, represented by the Dutch troops, did not want to get involved with one of the attacking sides, and allowed it to destroy a whole village. Hundreds of people were killed or injured. The tragedy in Srebrenica is well known in Europe.

  Vladimir Putin

  Europe, People, Tragedy

  Source: russialist.org

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• The [George W.] Bush administration tripled its aid package to Afghanistan. [Hamid] Karzai finally (and courageously) announced that warlords will be forbidden from holding office in the future government. And finally, NATO agreed to expand the peacekeeping forces to troubled areas outside of Kabul.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Government, Office, Administration

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• The UN was very media-shy, and its relationship with the press was very controlled; although periodically I spoke to the press, the rule was, only the secretary-general speaks to the press; only the secretary-general makes... So you would see many situations where under-secretaries-general would come in and speak. I opened that, and I encouraged all of them to speak in their areas, whether it was peacekeeping or humanitarian efforts.

  Kofi Annan

  Media, Effort, Shy

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• The United Nations has been in the Great Lakes Region and Sahel for 50 years, mostly investing in peacekeeping. NOW is the time to invest in young people!

  Babatunde Osotimehin

  Lakes, Years, People

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• Peace, prosperity, and democracy cannot endure if imposed from the outside. We should cease to make false distinctions between peacekeeping and prevention; they are in fact inextricably linked.

  Susan Rice

  Democracy, Prevention, Facts

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• Peacekeeping there is still just totally ineffective. The UN is now saying they are sending reinforcements in the area, but I have no particular reason to believe that they will be any stronger than the force there. In Southern Kordofan, it's mostly an Egyptian battalion, and that's really problematic because the population already doesn't trust the Egyptians; they think they're on payroll of the north. So we already have a force that is seen as compromised.

  Rebecca Hamilton

  Believe, Thinking, Southern

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Consider that in a galaxy far, far away (otherwise known as the 1990s), President Clinton felt that he had to assure an isolationist Republican Congress - repeat after me, an isolationist Republican Congress - that the 20,000 U.S. peacekeeping troops he promised Bosnia as part of the Dayton Accords would only stay deployed for a single calendar year.

  Matt Welch

  Years, President, Bosnia

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