Bill Clinton got Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat to shake hands on the White House lawn, but no peace, and no prize, followed the unhappy Camp David summit of 2000.
This one involves not just North Korea and America, but also South Korea and China, and is the fourth in a series of meetings designed to bring peace to the Korean peninsula (the Korean war ended with an armistice in 1953 but no formal peace treaty).
Barak will stand firm on the principle that Israel has no alternative but to make peace with the Palestinians, and will remind the electorate of the conspicuous failures of both Netanyahu and Sharon to make progress on this front.
But no one can impose progress and peace on another nation.
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"We have no alternative but to achieve this peace, " he said.
Under such circumstances, the Middle East will continue as it has done for decades, with no shortage of peace plans but precious little peace.
But make no mistake about it -- whenever peace is made by people anywhere, the credit belongs to the parties whose own lives and livelihoods and children and future are on the line.
"There is a popular perception that the U.S. has scuttled the chances of peace accords, but there are no real chances of such deals, given the history of past agreements, " said Raza Rumi, an analyst based in Islamabad.
There was no breakthrough, but both sides spoke positively of a peace process that had appeared in jeopardy after last July's bombings in Mumbai.
Rabin, who led Israel's defeat of Syria during the Six Day War, had been discussing peace with Damascus since 1991, but with no tangible results.
He has yet to address the larger point, however, namely that their continuing presence is but one of many reasons why there is no real "peace" in the Balkans, only a temporary absence of hostilities.
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They too signed the peace plan, but by then the Ethiopians were no longer in the mood.
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On Middle East peace, there were gestures and words, but no concessions.
No line-up has been announced, but the well-known peace activist is expected to focus on issues such as environmentalism and feminism.
Incredibly, some even came to think of the late President Sadat no longer as a traitor for making peace with Israel, but as a martyr.
But after the meeting, President Hosni Mubarak said flatly that there was no prospect of peace so long as Mr Sharon remained in power.
It permitted peace negotiations under the auspices of the Organisation of American States, but put no diplomatic weight behind them.
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But that interview was given when Yasser Arafat was still alive and there were no prospects for peace talks between Israel and the Palestinians.
But Mr Cameron said that no resolution could provide the "political will" needed for lasting peace and called on both Israel and the Palestinians to return to the negotiating table for direct talks.
Peace talks between the two sides are due to be held in Thailand, but no firm start date has as yet been confirmed.
No logistics for any peace negotiations had been worked out, or conditions set, but there is a consensus of every major political party in Pakistan that talks must be held with the militants.
Seeds of Peace was a wonderful experience but once the campers returned to their homes, there was no formal contact with them and the benefits eroded.
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But in Peace Corps service, two football powers are bottom feeders: Southern California (unranked, No. 17 in Scout) and Alabama (unranked, No. 3), which had 19 and 10 Peace Corps volunteers, respectively.
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There was no official confirmation, but the second Clinton administration plainly is not turning its back on Israeli-Palestinian peace-making, as some had feared and others, hardliners on each side, secretly hope.
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