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The peaceful demonstrators in Hong Kong, with their umbrellas and refuse-collection bags, will not themselves be swept off the streets like garbage or bullied into submission by tear gas and pepper spray.
Their hopes are for a peaceful and prosperous life in which they can enjoy the freedoms and rule of law that they were promised.
Some Japanese, however, view the reforms with concern, fearing that the peaceful Japan of the last seven decades will suddenly revert to the militaristic Japan of the 1930s.
This is hindering any peaceful resolution in the short run and will prove increasingly prohibitive to a political settlement in the long run.
On the 10th Anniversary of the Velvet RevolutionPRAGUE - Ten years ago today the Czechoslovak Communist power brutally intervened against a peaceful demonstration of students who had decided to pay tribute to the memory Jan Opletal, a student who was one of the first victims of Nazism.
The commission concluded that states have a responsibility to protect their citizens, and should be helped to do so by peaceful means, but that if a state disregarded that responsibility by attacking its own citizens, the international community could consider armed intervention.
Britain’s New InternationalismTOLEDO, SPAIN -- With President George W. Bush’s grand strategy for the Middle East in ruins, his administration has, however hesitantly, begun to put greater emphasis on resolving conflicts by peaceful means.
This year’s campaign was exceptionally peaceful, and millions of citizens voted on December 27 – at times walking and queuing for hours to cast their ballot.
In particular, Turkey has taken bold steps that aim to achieve a peaceful settlement of the Kurdish issue, which has been a source of concern for decades.
Recognition of changed geopolitical circumstances allowed the Northern Irish nationalist leader John Hume to convince Sinn Fein that a peaceful settlement was possible.
Uninterested in nationalist daydreams or religious mystique, we simply want to live safely, and, if at all possible, next door to a stable and peaceful Palestine.
Libraries are hubs where local organizations and individual community members can meet to discuss the issues of the day, and formulate peaceful and collaborative responses to shared problems.
Recognizing the scale and urgency of the challenge ahead, Break Free is prepared to intensify its peaceful resistance against new and existing fossil-fuel projects.
After Viktor Yanukovych’s election last year, the Constitutional Court rescinded constitutional changes made in 2004 as part of the settlement that brought about a peaceful end to the Orange Revolution.
A country that can succeed in one sphere of peaceful competition is encouraged to feel that it can do well in others.
Peaceful co-existence, not mounting bilateral tension, is in both countries’ best interest.
To this end, initiatives aimed at building strong education systems, equitable resource distribution, and well-functioning governments – all of which have been found to underpin peaceful societies – are critical.
Moreover, compared to global averages, Mexico lags in three other areas that are crucial to sustaining peaceful societies: freedom of information, government efficiency, and corruption.
This figure is supported by the fact that, since 2003, per capita income in Mexico’s most peaceful states has risen by at least 20% more than in the least peaceful states.
Mexico is well positioned to overcome its high rates of violence and build a more prosperous and peaceful society.
Against this backdrop, Western Europe after 1950 was remarkably peaceful and stable, even taking into account the fall of the French Fourth Republic and the transitions from dictatorship to democracy in Portugal, Spain, and Greece.
So the maintenance of a peaceful and lawful maritime domain, including unimpeded freedom of navigation, is critical to their security and economic well-being.
Yemen’s Regime Change Gets PersonalSANAA – When Yemen’s President Ali Abdullah Saleh ordered his military on March 18 to fire on peaceful protesters calling for his resignation, he sealed his fate.
And what happens in 2009 may jeopardize some of the positive results of 1989, including the peaceful reunification of Europe and the triumph of democratic principles over nationalist, if not xenophobic, tendencies.
Arab Justice for Arab ViolenceNEW YORK – For months now, it has been clear that no peaceful, even satisfactory, resolution of the conflict in Syria is possible without external intervention.
The Arab world might not be so deeply affected, but the near future there will certainly be neither peaceful nor stable.
Will that conflict be peaceful or violent?
El-Baradei has stated that the IAEA has found “no evidence” of a weapons program in Iran – a statement that Iranian leaders have since cited as proof of their peaceful intentions.
Although he strengthened religious freedom and peaceful coexistence between Muslims and Christians, the human-rights situation in Ethiopia remained poor.
As the region’s biggest and most influential country, Saudi Arabia could play a positive role by inviting the US and Asia’s two giants to work jointly towards a peaceful resolution of the Iran problem.
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