Take a minute to watch the video honoring peacekeepers below. Then sign this letter and join us in thanking the 100,000 brave men and women from 160 countries serving as UN peacekeepers in 17 of the most difficult regions in the world, rebuilding societies wracked by violence and natural disasters, restoring confidence in people who have known little but war, and bringing peace to some of the most violent conflicts on earth.
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Dear UN Peacekeepers,
We may be far from the 17 regions around the world where you work, but our thoughts and thanks are with you. From as far as East Timor, as close as Haiti, and spread throughout 8 countries in Africa, the work you have done over the past 62 years has benefitted the entire world, creating a more peaceful, stable, and secure place for people to live. Read more || Hide text
The work of UN peacekeepers to bring peace and security to the world and has produced extraordinary outcomes for millions of people.
Your work as peacekeepers is complicated and diverse: rebuilding societies wracked by violence and natural disasters; ensuring peaceful, fair elections; and maintaining law and order in some of the most volatile situations on Earth. You face the daunting tasks of convincing armed groups to lay down their weapons and restoring the lives of thousands of children forced to become soldiers during war.
You create the conditions to bring warring parties to the negotiating table—resulting in numerous ceasefires, peace accords, and power-sharing agreements since 1945. You remove hundreds of thousands of mines from war zones all over the world, allowing communities to return home and rebuild their lives.
We all have a vital stake in the work that you do. Individual governments
simply cannot afford to—nor would be advised to—send their own
troops to all of the places where you are deployed.
This past year has been particularly tragic for UN peacekeepers as you lost
many of your colleagues in the devastating earthquake in Haiti. Despite your
own losses, you worked to support the Haitian people through the devastation.
To all of the UN peacekeepers who have given your life in the service of pursuing
peace. Your work is heroic, and on behalf of all of those who have benefited,
directly or indirectly, from six decades of UN peacekeeping: THANK YOU.
Sincerely,
Please Sign Your Name Below
[We will send this letter on your behalf to the UN Department of Peacekeeping
Operations and to all 17 UN peacekeeping missions currently in operation worldwide.]
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