With all leading European companies manufacturing throughout the continent and beyond, how can the war-and-peace notion make sense?
Baker has faced far tougher moments in his career--thousands of lives were riding on his 11th-hour war-or-peace meeting in Geneva with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz in January 1991, for example--but few have been as tailor-made for Baker, whose unique skill is the ability to integrate policy and politics in one brain and make a lot of things happen quickly.
But the general isn't going to war -- his mission is peace.
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Our shared interest is in building peace in a war-torn land -- a peace that provides no safe haven for violent extremists, and that provide hope for the Afghan people.
And let it be said of our friendship - formed and forged over two tumultuous centuries, a friendship tested in war and strengthened in peace - that it has not just endured but is renewed in each generation to better serve our shared values and fulfil the hopes and dreams of the day.
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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Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi and Mr Putin - who also met on Friday - agreed to boost joint work on energy projects, and reaffirmed the need to sign a post-World War II peace treaty.
Russian and U.S. experts alike agree that SDI was decisive in stimulating reforms and arms reductions, ending the Cold War peacefully, and bringing Americans the trillion-dollar peace dividend which became the basis of our post-Cold War economic boom.
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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All of you are -- know of the role that he played in bringing peace to the war-torn regions of Bosnia.
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.
Sitting reading is a sedentary occupation, and yet no-one is suggesting you should avoid "War and Peace" or the later, over-long Harry Potter novels.
Just as the Versailles Treaty produced not a lasting peace but an interlude between and pretext to war, so the Vance-Owen "peace plan" will assure the future outbreak of regional hostilities -- even if succeeds (against all odds) in temporarily suspending the present ones.
And that is why we gather at these solemn remembrances and reminders of war -- to recommit ourselves to the hard work of peace.
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"The last thing the people of these two countries need is another war -- a war that could claim countless lives, destroy hope and ruin the prospects of peace and stability and prosperity of all Sudanese people, " U.N.
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Bosnia was split into two autonomous regions - joined by a relatively weak central government - under a US-brokered peace deal that ended the 1992-95 war.
And an International Security Assistance Force was established to help bring a lasting peace to a war-torn country.
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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.
NGOs such as the London-based Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), Media Action International (Geneva), IMPACS (Canada), the Baltic Media Centre and Internews (Washington) all have offices at the Centre.
You have served in times of war and in times of peace -- an all-volunteer force right from the beginning -- part of a proud tradition that stretches back more than two centuries.
In 1999, at the height of the crisis in Kosovo, Richard gave an interview in which he addressed the question of why the United States was engaged in bringing peace to that war-torn corner of the world.
The two countries are still technically at war since the 1950-1953 Korean war ended in an armistice rather than a peace treaty, but the organisers are hopeful the two teams will agree to work together.
"You cannot bring peace by fighting - war is not the answer, " he told me.
He places the long-serving post-war prime minister Yoshida Shigeru, who signed the U.S.-Japan peace treaty and the first post-occupation status of forces agreement, in the former camp, along with Nakasone Yasuhiro, Koizumi Junichiro, and Noda Yoshihiko.
Intervention in Somalia, the original Gulf war, foreign-aid programmes and the Bosnian peace-keeping mission are much harder to justify.
Agricultural development in conflict areas like Mali is one of the best opportunities for building long-term peace and reconciliation after war.
"The last thing the people of these two countries need is another war -- a war that could claim countless lives, destroy hope and ruin the prospects of peace and stability and prosperity of all Sudanese people, " he said.
The 200-year-old Wiley doesn't publish War and Peace, but it has a firm position in consumer books (CliffsNotes, the For Dummies series and Frommer's guidebooks) and textbooks.
After all, that was the lesson of Iraq - winning the war was easy, winning the peace proved nigh on impossible and hugely costly both in terms of cash and men.
He said the "tripartite" system of financial regulation - in which responsibility was divided between the Treasury, the Bank of England and the FSA - had "failed us in war and in peace" and told MPs the government's Financial Services Bill would toughen regulation.
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