…The case for unarmed peacekeeping which Nonviolent Peaceforce makes is compelling and deserves to be applied on a large scale…One can readily see than NP’s added value lies in its low key, low cost, neutral, benign presence at the local level…The best thing that could happen for concerned actors in the international community is that organizations like NP would successfully and significantly enhance their cost-effective peacekeeping capacity…

-Bryan Deschamp, Senior Special Advisor
United Nations High Commission on Refugees, April 2006