He has also offered a partial amnesty to rebels who lay down their weapons.
Then the masses again find reason to lay down their lives for something larger than themselves.
Thorstein Skiaker, head of Kosovo peacekeepers, called on "extremists" to lay down their weapons and negotiate.
In May, Guatemala's guerrillas became the last in the region to lay down their arms.
Embarking on a peace process, the paramilitaries needed an incentive to lay down their arms.
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It has even talked about an amnesty for those who are willing to lay down their arms.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski has proposed a partial amnesty to persuade the rebels to lay down their arms.
The first lesson is that you can't convince terrorists to lay down their arms simply by walking away.
For the first time, independent peace movements have emerged, calling on both sides to lay down their arms.
Mr Erdogan has also said his government will continue anti-PKK operations until the Kurdish militants lay down their arms.
They turned up at Big Mushroom studios to lay down their first recordings which were produced by Jim Spencer.
Ghazi said his followers were willing to lay down their arms, but on condition neither he nor they are arrested.
In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.
The UN move comes as former rebels in Ivory Coast said on Friday they would not lay down their arms as previously announced.
Even if Mr Bashir keeps his promises, he may find that he can not make the janjaweed obey his instructions to lay down their arms.
But the defence minister says the government will not negotiate until the rebels lay down their arms, which they are doubtless too nervous to do.
Security forces have also struggled to assert control over armed men who took part in last year's uprising and who refuse to lay down their weapons.
Ali Hashim, a Salaheddin provincial council member, said Friday that tribal leaders ordered their people to lay down their arms and let soldiers enter the city.
The Ivory Coast Government says it will not negotiate with the rebels - who control half of the country - until they lay down their arms.
Journalists received messages purportedly from al-Sadr's office stating that the cleric had called on his militiamen to lay down their weapons, but his office called the messages disinformation.
President Obama, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH), and various other lawmakers are starting to lay down their markers as they look to back away from the fiscal cliff.
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And in June, Congress passed the legal framework for eventual peace talks that would set out the kind of sentences rebels could expect if they agreed to lay down their arms.
The warfare subsided after al-Sadr told his followers Sunday to lay down their arms, but the prevailing tension in the region threatens to unravel the government efforts to bring about stability in Iraq.
Each one of us who wishes for peace and harmony and compromise is unconsciously assuming a harmony that is defined by having the other guys lay down their weapons and join our side.
And we see the devotion of citizens who put on the uniform, who kiss their families goodbye, who are willing to lay down their lives so that we can live ours in peace and in freedom.
On Wednesday the UN Security Council, which had been accused of inaction, called on the Tamil Tigers to lay down their arms and urged the Sri Lankan government to allow international aid agencies into areas of need.
He said there were three main aims - ensuring the troop surge works and counter-insurgency continues "full steam ahead", training the Afghan army and police, and achieving the political settlement needed "with those elements of the Taliban that want to lay down their weapons".
The new coalition's prime minister, Bashkim Fino, who hails from the opposition Socialists, has toyed with the idea of going to Gjirokaster, where he used to be mayor, to ask the rebels to lay down their weapons and back the government of national reconciliation.
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