Then, too, pacifism had nothing to do with what happened.

Not even pacific Scandinavia is exempt from this.

Pacifism, however, does not really explain what happened in the Netherlands.

A peaceful and prosperous Afghanistan is in the best interests of Pakistan and, indeed, of the entire region.

The noisy country, that the beautiful Maghreb Azan fills its peaceful and empty corners..

For those of us who have studied it, there is no doubt about its true and peaceful nature.

Still, there are times when pacifism, even in Germany, is an inadequate response to a serious menace.

His sentiment seems more apt than ever nowadays, but not because humanity has turned pacifistic.

Religious exemption from military service can be more difficult to resolve, because some religions teach pacifism.

Judaism, however, is not pacifist, so, once again, there is no real issue of religious freedom at stake.

We affirm and declare our support so that the people in the separatist ruled territories to rejoin us in the framework of democratic States and of peaceful Europe.

Democratic transitions throughout the hemisphere had made guerrilla warfare unjustifiable as Che foretold in his La Guerra de Guerrillas in 1962, wherever the trappings (or, one might add, the realities) of democratic rule prevailed, taking up arms was pointless.

Yet the United States, according to its official National Security Strategy, is also committed to accommodating the emergence of a China that is peaceful and prosperous and that cooperates with us to address common challenges and mutual interests.

The crisis has indeed spread to all of Syria s neighbors including, most recently, Turkey, which has witnessed the export of suicide bombings to what had been the peaceful city of Reyhanli.

If so, then here s further proof that only peaceful and stable countries can afford the luxury of incompetent decision makers.

Given the continent s history of war and ideological division, and today s challenges posed by globalization, a peaceful, prosperous, and united Europe that wields influence abroad is surely a desirable goal.

Uninterested in nationalist daydreams or religious mystique, we simply want to live safely, and, if at all possible, next door to a stable and peaceful Palestine.

But how replicable are the Nordic successes? These countries have small populations, easy access to international trade, natural resources, and peaceful neighbors.

The prevailing narrative often regards mosques and Islamic associations as spaces for radicalization, but I contend that some young people are actively turning away from these peaceful institutions.

COLLEGE STATION, TEXAS With the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the relatively non violent overthrow of communism throughout Central and Eastern Europe, optimists predicted a new golden age of a world filled with peaceful democracies.

When one pole of nuclear deterrence weakened, due to Russia s political decline in the 1990 s, NATO, a defensive union of democratic and peaceful states, committed aggression against Yugoslavia.

The vast center of the Israeli political spectrum nowadays is essentially Herzlian. Uninterested in nationalist daydreams or religious mystique, we simply want to live safely, and, if at all possible, next door to a stable and peaceful Palestine.

If so, then here s further proof that only peaceful and stable countries can afford the luxury of incompetent decision makers. In a hypersensitive reality, stupidity equals malice.

Serbia, which traded violent nationalism for nonviolent nationalism when Slobodan Milosevic was overthrown eight years ago, has done all it can to impede resolution of these issues, with strong support from Vladimir Putin s Russia.