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What is astonishing, however, and deeply disturbing, is how quickly extreme violence can erupt among people who have lived peacefully together for a long time.
Muslims lived peacefully in Burma until Buddhists, egged on recently by fanatical monks, started burning down their houses and beating them to death.
We are sincerely interested in the establishment of a Palestinian state living peacefully side-by-side with Israel, the democratic state of the Jewish people.
Amnesty began identifying “prisoners of conscience” – people imprisoned for peacefully expressing their political, religious, or other conscientiously held beliefs, or for their cultural identity – all over the world.
As early as the third century B.C., Buddhism spread peacefully from India to Sri Lanka and to large parts of Southeast Asia.
Ethnically homogeneous Japan is an example of how three different religions – Shinto, Confucianism, and Buddhism – can coexist peacefully and, in many cases, intermingle.
Even Islam – which mostly spread in the wake of military conquests in the Middle East, India, and North Africa – expanded rather peacefully into Southeast Asia in the footsteps of merchants, scholars and mystics.
For now, their different views coexist and they live together peacefully.
Because stability is their great goal, China's communist rulers, if they are wise, will allow Hong Kong to show the way to a system in which Chinese govern themselves democratically, peacefully, and prosperously.
“Anyone who gives even slight attention to the matter will easily see…the obvious advantages in the system….The various classes work together peacefully; socialist organizations and their activities are repressed.”
All of this occurred very peacefully, with no wave of triumphalism, or even much enthusiasm.
After three months of protests, the uprising led to Yanukovych’s ouster, temporarily derailing Putin’s plan to vassalize Ukraine peacefully.
Dulling Putin’s knife and ending the Ukraine crisis peacefully depends largely on the EU.
The Gezi Park demonstrators who in June protested peacefully against the use of excessive police force by simply standing still also protested peacefully, years ago, against the ban on the headscarf then in effect in Turkey’s universities.
On January 3, five striking garment workers were shot dead in Phnom Penh while peacefully demanding a minimum livable wage.
Iran might lie down peacefully like Libya did when America bombed it, or turn into another Iraq.
Historically, few autocrats have understood that change produced peacefully by government is the most viable conservative solution to popular demands, and the best way to avoid violent revolution.
Or will the Palestinians change their autocratic leadership peacefully, as in Serbia when Slobodan Milosevic was ousted?
By allowing survivors to seek justice and perpetrators to seek forgiveness, the success of Gacaca is evident in how Rwandans today, killers and survivors, live side by side peacefully.
When Muslims form a minority, they have tended to co-exist peacefully with other religions, but where their populations are substantial (as in Nigeria), they tend to assert themselves.
The question is not whether China rises to great-power status peacefully, but whether it intends to remain peaceful when it gets there.
The problem is that some Venezuelans today cannot march peacefully on the streets without being shot at.
They lined up in large numbers, peacefully cast their ballots, and resoundingly rejected a flawed constitution that had been hastily forced upon them.
Our approach is an adaptation of America’s longstanding “engage but hedge” strategy, through which the US and its allies have used economic, diplomatic, and sometimes military instruments to give China incentives to rise peacefully, while maintaining robust military capabilities in case engagement proves unsuccessful.
This work is already being carried out in places: in Sierra Leone, a country recovering from a brutal civil war, community-based paralegals are helping villagers to settle disputes peacefully; in Malawi, they are helping to reduce unnecessary imprisonment.
This is the rule of law in action at the local level, and it is building, often from scratch, a culture in which disputes are settled peacefully and benefits distributed transparently.
Some believe that China cannot rise peacefully, and will seek hegemony in East Asia, leading to conflict with the United States and Japan.
Under his leadership, the long-standing and painful Aceh conflict was peacefully resolved.
Their coordinated efforts to divert North Korea peacefully from its nuclear course have also vindicated bilateral cooperation when both sides can define a common security stake.
China should also publicly work within the UN and with ASEAN to find a way in which the international community can help to resolve the crisis peacefully.
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