But there have been attacks on prominent supporters of the peace process in recent weeks.
In the past there have been attacks on the UN's summer camps for children in Gaza after complaints that boys were allowed to mix with girls, the BBC's Jon Donnison reports.
Until recently Lahore had escaped the violence, but there have been three attacks there now in the last two months.
There have also been attacks in Libya against Sufi shrines and mosques that witnesses say were carried out by militant Islamists.
Since Mr Monti's government stepped up a drive for increased tax compliance, there have been repeated attacks on branches of the tax-collection agency, some involving rudimentary bombs.
In the past week there have been two attacks on oil workers near Angola's only onshore oil installation at Soyo, and one on the fringes of the capital, Luanda.
Certainly, in the US, earlier mass shootings - there have been 13 such attacks in 2012, according to the Washington Post - have failed to provoke change.
There have been several arson attacks and intimidation directed against Catholic members of district policing partnerships.
Police reckon there have been around 80 attacks since 2003, with five people killed.
"There obviously have been some attacks, " said Ryan Crocker, U.S. ambassador to Iraq.
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In the past week there have been three violent attacks on women in the state.
There have been several such attacks on this road and we therefore chose to keep our distance.
He also knows there have been 172 such attacks in the U.S. in just the last six months.
There have been three bomb attacks on western targets in Bosnia.
But while the measure seems to be working -- there have been no successful attacks in nearly a year -- the restrictions on the movement of Seychellois fishermen has created another problem.
There have been a number of attacks on Quinn Group property since new management took over the firm in 2011.
There have been a number of attacks on Quinn Group property since new management took over the company in 2012.
The UK embassy building was completely burnt out with the works assumed destroyed but the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) said there could have been looting before the attacks.
According to an article published in November 2002 in the British The Guardian newspaper, authorities there have been investigating a series of attacks by suspected Taleban sympathisers against girls' schools in the province of Wardak, near Kabul.
Since the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks there have been no incidents in which terrorists have successfully used sharp objects to take over a plane, which suggests the current policy of keeping even small knives off planes is working, committee members said.
However there have been a number of indicators that suggest the latest attacks may also have sprung from the Haqqani network.
Since the attacks, there have been many proposals aimed at improving airport security.
There have been at least 83 acknowledged pirate attacks off Somalia and in the Gulf of Aden this year, 33 of them successful enough to command a ransom.
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Police say there have so far been no cases of vigilante attacks against offenders.
Since March, there have been reports of at least four similar attacks, including one in Ateibeh, a contested area near Damascus, and one in Khan al-Assal, a town outside Aleppo.
With the exception of one incident in Glasgow, there have been no large-scale marches or organised attacks against immigrants to match those of the 1970s.
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