UN mission
Blue helmets abroad
A UN mission is an operation authorized by the United Nations to address international crises—peacekeeping forces deployed to conflict zones, humanitarian relief efforts, or diplomatic delegations sent to monitor elections or negotiate ceasefires.
The UN mission in South Sudan has been extended for another year.
The term covers both the operation itself and the personnel involved.
- peacekeepingPreventing or ending conflict
- blue helmetsHead covers tinted azure
- boots on the groundMilitary presence in area
- humanitarianHelper of suffering people
- humanitarian aidCrisis relief for sufferers
intervention · Security Council · ceasefire · peace talks · observers · mandate · rules of engagement · deployment · white vehicles · troops · conflict · resolution · refugees · aid · refugee camp · diplomacy · Geneva · convoy
UN missioncoalition of the willing
Voluntary multinational partnership
US invasion · invasion · preemptive strike · American intervention · Bush Doctrine
UN missionwar of aggression
Military attack without provocation
annexation · blitzkrieg · invasion · invasion force · occupation
UN missionisolationism
Policy avoiding foreign alliances
non-intervention · unilateralism · withdrawal · disengagement · America First
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