In 1953, the signing of a truce brought an armed peace along the border of South Korea.
There had been months of relative calm, but Ethiopia launched a series of assaults along the border after peace talks collapsed.
Meghalaya Chief Minister Mukul Sangma and Assam Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi have both appealed for peace and hundreds of armed policemen and border guards have been sent to the area.
General Eikenberry highlighted the stretch of border opposite North Waziristan where the Islamabad government struck a peace agreement with tribal leaders and militants last September.
He is to consult Mr Ahern on the peace process before travelling to the Irish border town of Dundalk, where he plans to make an outdoor speech.
The cross-border bodies, devised as part of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement peace accord and mandated by referendum, will harmonise north-south policy on a number of areas.
Attacks by separatists on the coast killed 19 people, and other attacks were seen near the border with Somalia, but the vast majority of the country voted in peace.
If the polls are not disrupted by Pakistan-aided militants, India is expected to withdraw some of its troops from the border and it may also agree to peace talks with Pakistan.
He accepts, as Mr Netanyahu does not, the border before the war of 1967 as the basis for a final negotiated peace, with land swaps to cater for the large Israeli settlement blocks inside the West Bank.
The Ulster Scots Agency is one of the cultural cross-border bodies set up under the Good Friday peace agreement.
Some time before Israelis vote in February, Mr Obama should spell out precisely the sort of peace America envisages: two states sharing Jerusalem, with a border very close to the pre-1967 armistice line, not one that lets Israel keep its settlement blocks deep in the West Bank.
Moreover, although Zimbabwe is ready to accept a ceasefire, the withdrawal of foreign forces, and a peacekeeping force to monitor the ceasefire and protect Rwanda's border, it believes that this peace conference should not take on the political future of the Congo.
Under the peace accord, the two states agreed to accept the findings of the border commission.
Despite the general's condemnation of the bombing, infiltration across the border has not stopped and, as the latest outbreak of firing demonstrates, there is no peace in sight.
And without a lessening of hostility across the world's most heavily fortified border, efforts to negotiate a peace treaty for the peninsula and to bribe North Korea into giving up its nuclear weapons ambitions may come to naught.
The historic 1979 peace treaty between the two countries, which share a long border, is the cornerstone of a regional balance.
The Pakistani military was then consolidating a string of peace agreements it had signed with militant groups in the Waziristan region, as part of a strategy that appeared to barter internal peace for a safe Taliban haven on the Pakistani border with Afghanistan.
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We will spare no effort and will work diligently and tirelessly to ensure that these new negotiations achieve their goals and objectives in dealing with all of the issues: Jerusalem, refugees, settlements, border security, water, as well as the release of all our prisoners -- in order to achieve peace.
One is the peace agreements that the Pakistani government has signed with a couple of the tribal agencies along the border.
Israel's recent border clashes with Hezbollah guerrillas in southern Lebanon, and several terrorist attacks, have reminded even the supporters of the peace plan of the risks of moving forward with the process.
Last week's move to open Egypt's border with Gaza at the Rafah passage is further proof that the military has made its peace with the Islamic takeover of Egypt.
The agreement did not address the status of disputed areas along the border and the fate of Abyei, critical security issues that must be resolved if the two countries are to have lasting peace.
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