Jonathan Haidt How common threats can make common ground

They simply need to create a common body that all relevant groups on the ground can accept, as the Libyan opposition did when it set up the National Transitional Council.

On the high ground, freezing weather is common in winter.

If these two peoples can find common ground to create two states, both democratic and free, after decades of bitterness and bloodshed, the region would have an enormously powerful model of hope.

Thesis Lewis, an Anglican, intended to describe the Christian common ground.

Having sociability means taking actions with the responsibility of being on common ground.

Oddly, Hamas and Israel might have more common ground than Israel and the PLO.

We all know that there was difficulty finding common ground on some sensitive issues.

The common ground of reform is the need to re regulate the financial services industry.

Instead, it could look to established principles that may provide common ground for further deliberations.

The document should, as one speaker put it, be a beachhead of common ground from which we launch ourselves forward with urgency and common purpose.

Those events demonstrate that there can be common ground when both sides are willing to work constructively.

The strategy relies on a steady progression of steps to outwit opponents and create new facts on the ground.

The good old days when Trotskyites and Socialists found common ground in bashing the United States are over.

There may be a common ground of inner distress culminating in self directed harm in a Münchausen patient.

That decision showed the willingness of all delegations to find common ground and achieve an effective protective regime.

Emphasizing the need to acknowledge and respect the richness of all civilizations and to seek common ground among civilizations in order to address comprehensively common challenges facing humanity,

Identification and promotion of common ground among civilizations in order to address common challenges threatening shared values, universal human rights and achievements of human society in various fields

Even respecting the idiosyncrasies of each context, there is still sufficient common ground for more precision in the agreements.

As we move forward, we urge Court supporters to reciprocate our efforts to seek common ground and avoid divisiveness.

The history of Europe was full of examples of xenophobia and intolerance being propagated to create fertile ground for subsequent violence.

It should be possible for each side to respect the other s position without abandoning its ownand to find common ground.

Presidents Bush and Putin have come to common ground on some important issues connected also to security and non proliferation.

It undercuts self righteousness, radically alters the tone and character of controversy, and enriches dramatically the possibilities for finding common ground.

The US now has an opportunity to establish new ways to explore common ground and reach a more durable political solution.

We can build a world in larger freedom but to do it we must find common ground and sustain collective action.

We maintain close contacts with all sides and try to create synergy on the ground in order to further promote dialogue and cooperation.

These points are far from a blanket criticism of the EU s efforts to create a common foreign and security policy.

Think of mass media as providing common ground and you have the recipe for taking this idea to a whole new place.

iii. A provision allowing withdrawal of communication on the ground of input errors will create serious difficulties for the court that is being seized.

Commercial aspects of forest management, which are handled under numerous different initiatives with no common approach, can create conflict and confusion.

Dialogue with the US could focus on areas, such as Iraq and Afghanistan, where the two parties share a measure of common ground.

In addition, the EU should create a small but effective military force (say, 5,000 troops) to back up the common body s decisions.

The preferred alternative is to create a common resolution mechanism, which would apply throughout Europe, regardless of a bank s country of origin.

Lurpak started in 1901 as a combination of several Danish dairy farmers to create a common brand for butter to increase sales.

The image of women and men in media which create public opinion is mainly different, but some common characteristics may be noticed.

On challenges ranging from election monitoring to the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, there is no common ground among the 56 member states.

My delegation reaffirms the need for Member States to strive to find common ground on the issue of the expansion of the Council's membership.

For our part, we are ready to work towards building the necessary common ground, which will render possible the re launching of meaningful negotiations.

Syria s opposition leaders do not need to sweep their political differences under the rug in order to gain the international community s support. They simply need to create a common body that all relevant groups on the ground can accept, as the Libyan opposition did when it set up the National Transitional Council.

Humanity is in need of a new shared vision of a common destiny to create a culture of universal peace and solidarity that can create an environment free from poverty, war, fear, violence and insecurity.

The Court's advisory opinion holds that the construction of the wall could create facts on the ground tantamount to the actual annexation of occupied Palestinian territory.

As a result, those who want a common European defense capability lack the means to create it, while those who have the means to create it do not want it (with the possible exception of France).

There must be a sustained effort to listen to each other to learn from each other to respect one another and to seek common ground.

It can effectively link discourse and action, generate widespread campaigns, and forge common ground among rights activists, public intellectuals, and all kinds of Twitter users.