The situation has changed and the police have worked on a number of confidence-building initiatives in their communities.

BBC: Rio policemen in the Chatuba community

But after India and China signed a "Peace and Tranquillity" treaty in 1993, both sides scaled down their deployments as part of a confidence-building package.

BBC: India to deploy 36,000 extra troops on Chinese border

Iranian officials have said they are reluctant to start scaling back nuclear activities without a clear guarantee of what they would eventually get if they go beyond the confidence-building measures and address all concerns about their nuclear program.

WSJ: Iran Talks Off to Shaky Start

Part of the process is therefore encouraging participants to sit with this feeling and build their conviction and confidence to act on it at training retreats and capacity building workshops.

FORBES: Connect

That would give the schools time to recruit staff and prospective parents confidence that their children would not be taught in the corner of a building site.

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"Our confidence-building measures have encouraged many poor women to come out of the confines of their homes and make Nabanna a roaring success, " Ghosh Ray added.

UNESCO: Communication and Information

And our role in this is to build confidence-building measures, to bring about a set of confidence-building measures that would allow both Afghan parties, the government and the Taliban, to demonstrate their seriousness in pursuing the process and eventually begin negotiating.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing