"Why can't peace be a single overriding common purpose: why do we wait for a crisis to pull us together? Let's pull together for peace."

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This is the one international institution we have in which governments get together to work collectively for a common purpose. International crises, by definition, require international solutions. Peacekeeping is a response to conflict, is a response to situations in which often it is not the business of any one particular country to get into. It seems to me, therefore, that the world will for the foreseeable future need peacekeeping.

— Shashi Tharoor