He took great pride in his Irish heritage and he cared deeply about peace on our island.
Yet the Turkish-Cypriots still voted for it by a substantial majority for the sake of peace in the island.
She believed she could bring peace to the island by offering the Tamils generous autonomy in the north-east, but the Tigers' leader, Velupillai Prabhakaran, appears unwavering in his demand for a separate state.
It sees the shop as an island of peace and reconciliation, and paints Calvin's financial woes as a solemn issue of patrimony.
Just comparing Kenya with its neighbours shows that this country is an island of peace in a region that is home to civil strife.
So why don't more people go home now that Kenya has reverted to its traditional role as an island of relative peace, stability and economic growth amid other East African nations plagued by chronic violence?
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And in Providence, Rhode Island, the families of area victims released peace doves as thousands of onlookers watched.
The solution she is pitching to the region's mayors: build an island where gulls can eat and breed in peace.
The release follows a call by Ocalan, which was relayed by Kurdish legislators who were allowed to visit him last month on his prison island off Istanbul, as part of the peace process.
In 1982, Brower founded the Earth Island Institute, an organization that works to bring peace, environmental and social justice together.
Peace in Northern Ireland has helped to boost the economy of the whole island.
Government participation in an internationally-mediated peace effort and the unilateral ceasefire called by the rebels had made it possible to market the Island as a safe destination once more.
The first two days of the event will take place in Hiroshima, where participants will have the opportunity to visit the peace museum and to talk to atomic bomb survivors, and the other days in Etajima, an island about 30 minutes from Hiroshima.
The Turks, for their part, insisted that they had made good-faith efforts to achieve a peace settlement (they and their ethnic kin in Cyprus had accepted a UN-sponsored plan to reunify the island but it was spurned by the Greek-Cypriots earlier this year).
Mandela, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, has a history of lung problems dating back to when he was a political prisoner on Robben Island during apartheid.
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