The Power of Peace platform, www.thepowerofpeacenetwork.com, was launched at the Forum, for ongoing collaboration.
The Power of Peace platform, All content available here, was launched at the Forum, for ongoing collaboration.
The genesis of the Power of Peace Network is in this Forum room today, where we have assembled.
The Second Global Forum on the Power of Peace, held in Bangkok from 28 to 30 October 2009, brought together young people, students, representatives of universities, NGO, private sector, and governments from around the world to collaborate in building the Power of Peace Network (PPN).
In compelling remarks before more than 300 Members of Congress, diplomats, senior military officers, former government officials and influential members of the Washington policy community, Rep. Cox called on this country's foreign policy leadership to reassert the fundamental beliefs which guided America through the darkest days of the Cold War: the paramount importance of freedom, and the power of a peace-through-strength security posture to protect it.
UNESCO, the Thai Ministry of Education and eWorldwide Group were partners in sponsoring and hosting the event, which was organized as follow-up to the first Power of Peace Forum, held in Bali, Indonesia, in January 2007.
President Higgins spoke about the emancipatory power of culture for laying the foundations of peace in a world undergoing profound change, and he thanked UNESCO for providing an opportunity for peoples to come together.
The early release scheme has been one of the most criticised aspects of the peace accord which paved the way for the establishment of a power-sharing executive in Northern Ireland.
Israel is the only country in the region dedicated to peace and the only power capable of stable, just and democratic government in the region.
Middle Eastern rulers and oppositionists alike had come to an unsentimental reading of Mr. Obama: He was no friend of liberty, he had made peace with the order of power in Arab-Islamic lands.
That brief speech encapsulating two centuries of American military history is a monument of the power of forthrightness in advocating for peace through strength in the Reagan tradition.
The chaos reinforced the power of the army, which was called in to restore peace, and fueled widespread speculation that the instability was orchestrated by hardline interests seeking to derail reform and strengthen the hand of the military.
And as we now see, all of its possible secular and Islamist successors either reject outright Egypt's peace treaty with Israel or will owe their political power to the support of those who reject the peace with the Jewish state.
There is also no doubt that it is the duty of a great power to ensure peace.
On Thursday, Lavrov appeared to join Brahimi's call for the revival of his peace plan, which called for the creation of a transitional government in Damascus to hold power until an election.
" In fact, she later stated that China's burgeoning military might was not a threat but that, "what is important is for China's military power to be put to the service of peace.
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Yet even today, there are those apparently including our own former President Carter, who believe that it the use of military power without broad international consensus that is currently the greatest threat to world peace.
We respect the right of nations to access peaceful nuclear power, but one of the purposes of the United Nations is to see that we harness that power for peace.
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Instead of maximising their military power, they have forsworn the use of ground troops, except to uphold a peace agreement that may never come into being.
RAMALLAH, West Bank (CNN) -- The future of the Middle East entered a new era of uncertainty Thursday, as the militant Palestinian opposition group Hamas snatched power from the ruling old guard and made skeptics of many key players in the peace process.
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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The U.N. has the power to authorise military intervention once all other options have been exhausted and the peace and stability of a region is in jeopardy.
Among the main suggestions made by the contributors, a series of common challenges for peace and dialogue has been identified, including the separation of the political power from the exercise of journalism, the introduction of web-journalism in the university curricula, universal access and affordability of Internet, the promotion of peace initiatives and the need to establish linkages with civil society organizations.
You cannot have peace without devolution of power, without the sharing of power.
The 19th century was notable for two stretches of great-power peace of roughly four decades each, punctuated by major conflicts.
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The Seleka rebels, an alliance of armed groups, seized power after a peace deal negotiated with Mr Bozize collapsed.
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The Seleka rebels, an alliance of armed groups, seized power after a peace deal negotiated with ousted President Francois Bozize collapsed.
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Author Sarah Ban Breathnach recently brought the power of this alluring quality to my attention in her new book, Peace and Plenty: Finding Your Path to Financial Serenity.
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