Sudan's elections were agreed to as part of a 2005 peace deal ending a two-decade-long civil war, during which an estimated two million people died.

VOA: standard.2010.03.23

Security Council resolution." North Korea has indicated that it will not return to the six-party talks until the U.S.signs a peace agreement to officially end the Korean War.

VOA: standard.2009.12.08

His aim is to ease decades of tensions between Muslims and the United States tensions heightened by the war in Iraq and lack of progress in the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.

VOA: standard.2009.06.03

Presidential candidate Ivanov has told his supporters he wants to help overcome nationalistic divisions in Macedonia, which narrowly averted civil war in 2001, following a peace deal between ethnic-Albanian fighters and Macedonian security forces.

VOA: standard.2009.03.22