The ongoing war for peace...Violent and brutal civil wars are inflicting slaughter and misery on the people of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. The United Nations Department of Peacekeeping is working overtime to avoid another Rwandan disaster. In this shocking and explicit film, award-winning director Paul Cowan gains unprecedented access to the UN's offices and bureaus to capture behind-the-scenes peacekeeping tactics. Cutting back and forth between New York, the UN's Crisis Room and on-the-ground footage of Third World devastation, The Peacekeepers provides a realistic and profound balance of hope in the face of ongoing strife. This program is Closed Captioned for the hearing impaired.