The Nobel Committee awarded the prize because “The peacekeeping forces of the United Nations have, under extremely difficult conditions, contributed to reducing tensions where an armistice has ...

For 76 years, United Nations peacekeepers have worked to save and change lives in the world’s most fragile political and security situations. Since 1948, more than two million uniformed and ...

United Nations, Asserting that peacekeeping is not a zero-risk effort, India told the UN Security Council that peacekeepers have to contend with the presence of non-state actors, armed groups and ...

The first all-female unit of UN peacekeepers stand at attention as they arrive outside Liberia's capital, Monrovia, on January 30, 2007. Christopher Herwig/Reuters Women are routinely ...

Recent weeks have seen unprecedented moves across the European Union to ramp up defence spending as the realisation dawns in member states that the United States may not be the security backstop ...

Indian peacekeepers are present in most of our peacekeeping missions and they are serving with commitment, the Under-Secretary General for United Nations (U.N.) Peace Operations Jean Pierre ...

Indian Army officials have emphasised that Indian United Nations peacekeepers stationed in Congo's Goma are safe amid the rebel assault. Goma has seen intense fighting between the Congolese army ...