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Peacekeeper
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Peacekeeper (or PeaceKeeper, Peace Keeper or Peace-Keeper) has many meanings:
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A peacekeeper can be a person involved in peacekeeping. This individual is always part of a larger force; examples:
- UN Peacekeeping
- NATO peacekeeping
- Indian Peacekeeping Force in Sri Lanka.
- PeaceKeeper Cause-Metics [1]
- Multinational Force and Observers (MFO)
- IFOR
- SFOR
- KFOR
Peacekeepers, although comprised of soldiers, are different than a traditional military force, in that peacekeepers, use minimal force, distribute humanitarian aid, and on rare occasions take offensive action. Peacekeepers are generally viewed as an outside impartial third party force, who has no stake in the conflict, except in maintaining peace.
- LGM-118A Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missile ("MX Missile")
- PeaceKeeper and PeaceKeeper II armored fighting vehicles produced by Cadillac Gage
- The Peacekeepers are a miliary organization in the Farscape science fiction drama.
- The Peacekeepers are a law enforcement organization in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Fast Forward cartoon series.
- The Peace Keepers is a video game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
- Active Worlds Peacekeepers protect others from abuse, harassment, or other violations such as vandalism within AW public worlds.
- In the Xbox 360 game Crackdown, Peacekeepers are the only form of policing left in Pacific City.
- In the strategy game Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri one of the playable factions is called the Peacekeepers, acing as a UN type representative on a colanised planet in the future.
- The Peacekeepers is a science fiction novel set in the Star Trek Expanded Universe.
- Peacekeepers is a science fiction novel written by Ben Bova.
- The Peacekeeper is a novel written by Shabbir Ahsan. The book is about a U.N. peacekeeper's experience in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- Peacekeeper is a 2003 U.S. Top 3, U.K. Top 6 song from Fleetwood Mac's album Say You Will. Its lyrics appear to allude to the Peacekeeper missile.
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