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Football has often been called a substitute for war – a symbolic, more or less peaceful, way to fight out international rivalries.
Indeed, the only country that has encountered it is the US, when it replaced the UK as the world’s dominant economic and financial power before World War II; fortunately, that precedent is one of accommodation and a peaceful transition.
Hopes were high that Cambodia had been set on a transformative path by the success of the United Nations peace plan, the huge peacekeeping operation that followed, and the remarkably peaceful election of 1993 (in all of which Australia played a leading role during my time as Foreign Minister).
The “official” Confucianism being revived today may be less dangerous – it emphasizes social harmony, meaning the peaceful resolution of conflicts – but it remains a conservative morality.
While such research focuses on peaceful individuals, there is evidence that right-wing and Islamist extremists also possess these personality traits.
Liberia’s Presidential LegacyDALLAS – Last month, Liberians witnessed something remarkable: a peaceful transfer of power in their country.
Why, for example, do Americans feel so threatened by the peaceful economic rise of China (as they did by Japan’s economic success in the 1980’s)?
Peoples in transition from authoritarian rule – peaceful in Poland in 1989, bloody in Libya today – grapple with decisions that determine their fate for decades.
Now, like some unemployed Cold War general, the Church appears disoriented by the peaceful transition to democracy.
The peaceful demonstration was brutally dispersed by the police and “volunteer” party vigilantes.
The Solidarity movement of the 1980’s and the peaceful overthrow of communism was, in large measure, the work of their generation.
It is a view that carries the grave implication that a peaceful solution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is almost impossible.
So the US spends around thirty times more on the military than it does on peaceful development aid for the poorest countries.
Romania's HysteriaBUCHAREST: Across Eastern Europe throughout this year, people have celebrated their peaceful, victorious revolutions against communism.
Developing skills and qualifications is all the more vital to establishing a more peaceful and prosperous future in areas already riven by conflict.
Developing skills and qualifications represents a powerful step towards a more peaceful and prosperous future in areas of conflict and poverty, but the interest in helping countries take that step is universal.
This will require that America recognize the validity of Europe's view of the Israel-Palestinian conflict as the major roadblock toward a peaceful Middle East.
It called for beefing up Taiwan's defense in the face of mainland China's missile threats and for building a peaceful framework of relations across the strait that separates Taiwan from the mainland.
For example, the government’s violent response in 2013 to peaceful protests against the construction of a shopping mall at Istanbul’s Gezi Park transformed a small local demonstration into a national movement for increased freedom and greater respect for different lifestyles.
Alexander Dubcek, the leader of the Czechoslovak communists and the symbol of the Prague Spring, personified hope for democratic evolution, real pluralism, and a peaceful way to a state governed by law and respectful of human rights.
We knew, too, that its peaceful victory would be a lesson for the rest of the bloc.
It is difficult to speculate, though in most countries, the process will be peaceful and democratic.
Will NEPAD insist on mechanisms for the periodic and peaceful change of political leadership in member countries?
In principle, it would be hypocritical to advocate democracy and at the same time the exclusion of Islamists from peaceful political participation.
In seeking peaceful solutions to ethnic and separatist friction, Russia faces unique problems.
Only in this way will it be possible to restore the peaceful relations which existed before; only then will our many ethnic and national groups find a means to drain the violence from their antagonisms.
Outside resources should be devoted to building the governing capacity needed to keep the country united and largely peaceful.
Attempts by other democratic civil society groups to debate this issue in peaceful public forums have been thwarted by threats of violence from a coalition of Muslim non-governmental organizations calling themselves BADAI (the Malay acronym for Coalition against the Inter-Faith Commission).
A peaceful separation agreement would require international peacekeepers with contributions from many powers, including Islamic states, India, China, and Japan.
Iraq’s Bullets and BallotsWhen the Iraq war started in 2003, the Bush administration had very ambitious plans: as in post-1945 Germany and Japan, a long and peaceful occupation was envisaged, during which expanding oil production would assure rising prosperity as democratic structures were built piece by piece.
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