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In these communities, the fishermen developed a kind of social contract that told each one of them to hold back a bit to prevent overfishing.

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For me personally, the most critical lesson of all is this: Local commitment to peace is all-important, but it is often not enough to prevent or end violence.

I don't know how to prevent that, but I'm at least going to use my good offices to get you folks together to come up with a response."

So he crashes down, and he gets slightly injured, but this does not prevent him from jumping up and then starting to jump up and down on his bike and curse violently.

Instead of "go anywhere, do anything you want," we actually created a regime that required prior assessment of where you're going and a duty to prevent significant harm.

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