Will it be enough to deter aggression, to stop the shelling of Sarajevo, to bring the parties to the peace table?
Dispatching Holbrooke was designed, senior administration officials told CNN, to show Moscow that Washington is determined to work through current difficulties and to get the Balkans puzzle to the peace table.
But he does not appear to think, as many do, that this was because they thought Srebrenica could not be held and that it would be better to lose it in war than give it up at the peace table in exchange for land elsewhere.
And people who covered that story say that after the arms embargo was instituted it took about a year for a no-fly zone to be instituted, another three years to get everybody to the peace table in Dayton, and that basically this was sort of a model of inaction, not action, by the international community.
Washington is also hoping for Pakistan's help in bringing Taliban leaders to the table for peace talks.
But Obama made scant mention of efforts to strengthen the political opposition and glossed over the year-long effort to bring the regime and opposition to the table for peace talks that broke down months ago and now seem dead in the water.
While President Santos had pointed out in his address that the government would regularly assess the negotiations and pull out if they were stalling, Timochenko said his team would not "get up from the negotiating table until peace had been achieved".
That peace conference, in Madrid, was the first time Israel and its Arab enemies had sat down at the same table to discuss peace.
This President is committed to taking steps to move the Middle East peace process forward, to bringing the two parties to the table to negotiate a lasting peace.
He will claim a seat for Europe at the top table when a peace process beckons.
The Sudanese government hasn't exactly rushed to the bargaining table to forge a new peace, neither have Darfur's many rebel groups.
The International Table Tennis Federation and the Peace and Sport Foundation are organizing an international tournament in Doha, Qatar in November, and they're hoping the unusual teams could help to develop understanding between feuding countries.
Peace and Sport participated in the round-table discussion on youth violence prevention in the Great Lakes Region, organized by UNESCO in June 2011.
"Tonight, inspired by her life and leadership, as your free children, we say to Mrs Rosa Parks: Ride on, ride on, ride on in the direction of endless hope to the table of equal justice and eternal peace, " said the Reverend Daniel Coughlin, the chaplain of the House of Representatives.
Talking to reporters after holding private talks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Kerry said the parties all committed to a process that could "create the conditions for peace" so that they can return to the negotiating table.
Delegates from places like Moldova and Kazakhstan, Egypt and Israel sat around the table, whilst simultaneous translators worked hard to interpret the peace process jargon.
However, experience indicates that unless all the key killers and their enablers sit around the same table, it will be very difficult to forge a sustainable peace agreement.
White House officials have made clear that Mr. Obama won't arrive with a new peace proposal in hand or seek to coax longtime foes to a negotiating table.
But even if America and Russia succeed in convening a peace conference, it is far from clear that the Syrians around the table will wield sufficient influence over the forces fighting on the ground.
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.
Your Majesty, last year Jordan managed to break the impasse in the peace process by hosting the Amman talks, bringing Israelis and Palestinians together at the negotiating table.
He pointed from the witness stand toward Drayton at the defendant's table, identified him as the man wearing a clock around his neck, and told Justice of the Peace Melanie Andress-Tobiasson that Drayton chased him to a bedroom and stabbed the knife through the door during the argument early Oct. 17.
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