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Blue Helmets.
Most
UN peacekeepers, often referred to as "blue
helmets", have been soldiers, volunteered
by their Governments to apply military discipline
and training to the task of restoring and
maintaining the peace. In recognition of
their contribution, UN peacekeepers were
awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1988. 1948
- 1998: 50 YEARS OF UNITED NATIONS PEACEKEEPING
OPERATIONS: http://www.un.org/Depts/DPKO/pk50_w.htm
• Civilian Police International. In support of the U. S. Department of State, Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs, CPI recruits, selects, trains, and deploys U. S. police officers to participate in international police development programs around the world. These civilian police (CIVPOL) programs are an important component of international peacekeeping missions: http://www.civilianpolice.com/
For information about CPI employment opportunities, please visit the CIVPOL page |
• Combined Forces Command Afghanistan. The Coalition is made up of the following allied nations: Albania, Australia, Canada, Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Lithuania, Mongolia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, South Korea, Spain, Tajikistan, Turkey, United Kingdom, and Uzbekistan (as of 25 February 2005): http://www.cfc-a.centcom.mil/
• Combined Joint Task Force – 76. CJTF-76 is a multinational task force led by Canada in southeast Afghanistan. Contributing nations include the United Kingdom, Holland, Estonia and the U.S. The Task Force is responsible for provincial reconstruction in Kandahar, Lashkar Gah, Qalat and Tarin Kowt. a subordinate unit of Combined Forces Coalition – Afghanistan (CFC-A) headquartered in Kabul. An operational headquarters for the southern and eastern regional commands, CJTF-76 is located at Bagram Airfield [Information retrieved from TF Aegis on 5 May 2006]: http://cjtf76.army.mil/
- Corps of Engineers Afghanistan District: http://www.aed.usace.army.mil/
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Croatian Forces International
Volunteers Association.
CFIVA is the officially recognised
veterans' association of foreign combatants,
known as International Volunteers, of the
Croatian and Bosnian Armed Forces and the
Kosova Liberation Army (UCK), who served
and fought in the wars for the independence
of those nations, 1991-95 and 1998-99: http://www.cfiva.org/
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Eurocorps. The Eurocorps were created
in 1992 as the concrete implementation of
a political will that has developed since
the 1950's. The Eurocorps comprises military
contributions from its five member states:
Belgium, France, Germany, Luxembourg and
Spain. The Headquarters, in which soldiers
from the member states and also from Austria,
Canada, Finland, Greece, Italy, the Netherlands,
Poland, Turkey and the United Kingdom participate,
is located in Strasbourg, France. At the
beginning of the third millennium it is
now available as a Rapid Reaction Corps
HQ for both the EU and NATO: http://www.eurocorps.org/
• Europol. Europol is the European Law Enforcement Organisation which aims at improving the effectiveness and co-operation of the competent authorities in the Member States in preventing and combating terrorism, unlawful drug trafficking and other serious forms of international organised crime: http://www.europol.europa.eu
- The Europol Convention: click here
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French Foreign Legion. As an integral
part of the French army, the French Foreign
Legion is a professional fighting unit using
the same equipment and with the same missions
as any other infantry, tank, or engineer
unit of the French army. They are volunteers
of any nationality, race or creed, always
ready to serve France. Men of action and
elite soldiers with a young and dynamic
spirit, they are capable of doing their
duty anywhere anytime. This website is maintained
by info-france-usa, an information resource
center designed and developed by the Press
and Information Office of the French Embassy
in Washington, DC: http://www.info-france-usa.org/atoz/legion/index.asp
- Képi blanc magazine de Légion étrangère: http://www.kbmagazine.com/
• Fusion Task Force.
Spearheading Interpol's anti-terrorism efforts is the Fusion Task Force (FTF), created in September 2002 in the wake of the alarming rise in the scale and sophistication of international terrorist attacks: http://www.interpol.int/Public/FusionTaskForce/
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Interpol's resolutions on terrorism: click here
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