Peace keeping

Peace keeping

Hybrid of politico-military interventions aimed at conflict control usually with the involvement of the United Nations presence in the field by military and civilian personnel.

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Peace keeping

All the physical routes (land, water and air) that connect an operating military force with a base of operations, and along which supplies and military forces move; internal lines of communication ...

Area of separation (AOS)

Military; Peace keeping

Also called buffer zone; area between the forward line of the parties, into which they have agreed not to deploy military forces and which may be placed under the control of a PKO

Observation platform

Military; Peace keeping

Aircraft, ship or vehicle considered as the carrier of a set of observation devices, as distinct from an weapons platform.

Weapons platform

Military; Peace keeping

Aircraft, ship or vehicle considered as the carrier of a set of weapons, as distinct from an observation platform.

Airmobile troops

Military; Peace keeping

Airborne troops which can be delivered into a battle zone by helicopter.

Peace-keeping services agreement (PSA)

Military; Peace keeping

Canadian initiative, undertaken to streamline and improve the UN system funding of peace-keeping, under which a contractual arrangement would be established, using standard costs for the provision of ...