At the end of the day we have lost four loved family members and we hope they are all at peace now.
Separately, Myanmar authorities and ethnic Kachin rebels agreed on a cease-fire they hope will lead to a broader peace agreement and quell the Southeast Asian country's last armed ethnic conflict.
The training will assist and inspire participants in building peace within their communities whether they hope to become diplomats or work for the UN or an NGO.
If Western statesmen openly recognized the problem as a clash of principles, they would not be able to market hope through the launching of peace initiatives.
Former South Africa President Nelson Mandela, who mediated the peace deal, had expressed the hope that they would join the power-sharing arrangement which leads to democratic elections in three years time.
So we hope that they will refrain from that in the interest of making this peace process work.
Yet there are leaders who are partially or even fully aware of the identity of their "partners, " and who believe - or hope -- that by dialoguing with the radicals, they might entice them toward peace and moderation.
But today Israeli officials I have spoken to say they hope these new talks about the Arab initiative might help reinvigorate the long-stalled Arab-Israeli peace process.
Some of them have said that they hope the new Israeli government will resume negotiations based on the U.S.-backed roadmap to peace.
They may also hope to scupper cautious efforts by India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, to restart peace talks with Pakistan, which had collapsed after the 2008 assault.
But they seemed to symbolise one thing now within East Timor's grasp - real hope for the future and with it peace at last.
We will make certain, in the words of President Bush, that they have heard from us, that they've heard from us a message of peace through free, accountable, lawful and decent governments giving people hope for a future for themselves and their children.
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