Thatcher also argued against the idea that Europe's economic prosperity, facilitated by free markets and integration, had been the major reason for peace since the war.
The fifth trend, which I call the New Peace, involves war in the world as a whole, including developing nations.
All of you are -- know of the role that he played in bringing peace to the war-torn regions of Bosnia.
To dispel the tension, I open with a discussion about Tolstoy's War and Peace, which describes the war of the Russian people against the invading Napoleon.
Because this evening, we welcome, not the statesmen who decide great questions of war and peace, but citizens -- men and women from every corner of our country, from every rank of our military, every branch of our service -- who answer the call, who go to war, who defend the peace.
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They know that a wide spectrum of grey lies between the white of peace and the black of war.
IWPR, or the Institute for War and Peace Reporting, was set up in 1991 in the aftermath of the Gulf War and now covers the Balkans and under-reported regions of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
In deciding to participate in peacekeeping arrangements, Washington will have to balance the possible risks inherent in peacekeeping as well as the potential opportunities that peace will create versus the likely risk of increased instability and perhaps even war should the Israel-Syria peace effort collapse.
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This was true for the Allies after World War I, for the United States during the Cold War and for Israel after signing the peace treaty with Egypt.
He is a tough career operator from the State Department who brokered the Dayton peace accords that ended the Bosnian war in 1995.
The liquidation follows an announcement in December that one of its biggest annual events, The War and Peace military show, was moving to Folkestone after 20 years.
However, seizing the correct historical moment to decide on peace or war marks the difference between leaders and ordinary men.
In Bosnia, Europeans were irritated that, with no troops in harm's way though plenty of fire-power from the air, America could dictate the conduct of the war and shape the peace.
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During his years with ABC, he covered a wide range of international events, including the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the Gulf War and the Middle East peace process and U.S. deployment in Somalia.
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He used every tool to hand to direct the United States in peace and war: party, bureaucracy, Congress and the media of the day.
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Today, we are happy that those flames of war have been extinguished, and that now we are about to watch the flames of peace, destroying some of the implements of war.
The world now looks to them to turn the horror of war to the promise of peace.
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).
North and South Korea have remained technically at war since 1950, since neither country signed a peace treaty after the Korean War.
Its choice as the Palestinian delegation's headquarters ten years ago, when Israel and its Arab neighbours boldly embarked on the Madrid peace conference, made it an emblem of the longed-for turn from war to peace.
Pixies frontman Frank Black has been known to cover Norman's "Six, Sixty, Six" in concert, and it's jarring to hear Black snarl, "In the midst of the war, he offered us peace" over raucous guitars.
At least one of these warlords is now in custody, but there will be no end to the war until the international community robustly backs a lasting peace and reform process that includes accountability for the worst war criminals.
In 1921, the United States and Germany signed a peace treaty ending the state of war between them.
With all leading European companies manufacturing throughout the continent and beyond, how can the war-and-peace notion make sense?
But the peace camp is at war now, side by side with those it has long excoriated as warmongers.
Yet, in time of peace the populace views war preparation as leading to those very wars, not as a deterrent.
First, many of the Americans now being asked to keep the peace are the same ones who waged the war.
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In 1997, Sierra Leone's military leader, Johnny Paul Koroma, was sworn in as head of state and pledged to restore peace to the war-weary West African nation.
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