"Should Canada focus on keeping the peace?: Yes"

Peacekeeping is not passé. We don't hear about it because it works

Michael Byers, Ottawa Citizen, 12 November 2011

"We need action not only to end the fighting but to make the peace ...."

Spoken by Lester B. Pearson in 1956, these words grace the side of the peacekeeping monument in Ottawa. They also provide an insight into the true nature of this difficult and often dangerous task.