Many Japanese pacifists regard the deployment as an unholy departure from Japan's traditional way of dealing with the world.

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DeeAnna Soicher isn't all that comforted by the idea that a subset of videogame players are merely choosing to play as pacifists.

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He narrowly won a confidence vote last month after pacifists in his ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Greens threatened to veto a decision to deploy German troops.

CNN: Powell in Berlin after Moscow talks

In fact, however convenient it would be to divide the region's ethnic-Albanian leaders into pacifists and warriors, or moderates and extremists, the distinction is not a neat or easy one.

ECONOMIST: Charlemagne

Have we wealthy and educated Americans all become pacifists?

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They have purity codes and are pacifists.

ECONOMIST: Ion Cioaba