If ever there were a time for "peace through strength, " this is it.
The UK Peace Index has been drawn up for the first time in a report for the Institute for Economics and Peace, which defined peace as "the absence of violence or fear of violence".
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If it should fold, or even go into suspension for a time, the peace process will be in serious trouble.
He praised her signing the 1985 Anglo-Irish Agreement - giving Dublin a formal role in the affairs of Northern Ireland for the first time - as a "valuable early contribution to the search for peace and political stability".
"It is time for a huge effort on the Middle East peace process, " he said.
This new mission for NATO is designed to secure a Europe that is undivided, democratic and at peace for the first time in history.
"I do agree our president has been in power for a long time, but if you think about it, we have only been at peace for 10 years so he's not had much chance to govern, " said Henrique Pedro, 25, a bank worker from Luanda.
In a related development, and also for the first time, all of Angola's churches have formed a joint body to campaign for peace and national reconciliation.
In 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin pleaded for time and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat pleaded for money when they shared a platform in Paris to receive a peace prize from the United Nations.
Brother George was governor for a time of West Florida and in 1778 a peace commissioner to the United States.
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Gates and Obama, there is a time-tested reality: We can pay now for peace through strength, or pay later and vastly more in lives and treasure for the costs of failing to achieve that peace through our provocative weakness.
But speaking on Inside Politics the Sinn Fein president said that whilst he didn't have an awful lot of time for those who are anti peace process and support violent "micro groups", he did have a huge amount of time for others who are perfectly entitled to disagree with Sinn Fein's decision.
It has led to plenty of confusion, but at least it seemed to offer a real hope of peace in the territory for the first time.
The award comes at a crucial time for Obama, who has multiple administration officials dispatched on global peace missions.
Netanyahu cannot allow Mitchell to tie him or his senior ministers down for hours at a time in fruitless discussions about Obama's peace fantasies, or about which set of suicidal Israeli "gestures" might assuage the Obama administration's hunger for a confrontation.
First, a Europe that is undivided, democratic and at peace for the first time in its history.
One is the left wing option presented by Mr. Peretz and that is, to go for a final status agreement, hoping that peace in our time, peace next year is possible.
So this was somebody who was deemed widely to have been responsible for what went on, while at the same time for many years being a negotiator with Western leaders, being involved in peace talks and peace conferences.
Suspending the PCA was a pretty meaningless sanction, but it was something to which the EU agreed as a way of enforcing what were at the time judged to be important conditions for peace and justice in Georgia.
On Sunday, the Taliban formally launched their spring military offensive, circulating a list of its targets that for the first time included officials of the High Peace Council, the body created by Mr. Karzai to reach out to the insurgency.
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And I want to thank Prime Minister Netanyahu, during a very difficult time for his country, still being so committed to the cause of peace that he is here with us today.
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On Friday the yanis still adorns Queen Noor al Hussein, 47, as she steps into the sitting room of her family home, Bab al Salaam (Door of Peace), to speak with a reporter for the first time since her husband's death.
In one incident, officials in the Carter administration discovered the prince had deliberately mistranslated an important letter from the then Saudi ruler, King Fahd, to President Sadat of Egypt, to make it sound more conciliatory. (This was at a time when Sadat was being vilified in the Arab world for signing the Camp David peace accords with Israel.) Freelancing seemed to come naturally to the prince.
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If it is important enough for you to post a Rest In Peace message, then you must take time to really connect with the message, rather than mindlessly posting it.
It's a sentiment that Morsy himself expressed a short time earlier, saying dialogue amongst various Egyptians was the only way for the country to reach peace and prosperity.
And now is the moment for all nations to send a strong signal that there will be no time and no tolerance for spoilers who refuse to engage in peace talks.
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The Palestinian leader also acknowledged for the first time in public that he had concluded all the security aspects of a peace deal in private talks with Israel's previous prime minister, Ehud Olmert, just before he left office.
Okoro Media Systems has been Blu-ray savvy for some time now, but apparently it's looking to bring the peace with a dual-format combo drive in its BX series of HTPCs.
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During his time at the White House, with the Peace Corps, as a Senator, and leading the Corporation for National and Community Service, he gave generations of Americans the chance to serve their country.
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