Sentence examples for Defuse conflict from inspiring English sources
Nonlethal equipment and additional special negotiators were deployed to help defuse conflict situations.
"He constantly sought to defuse conflict, to clear the path for seeing the best in others," she said.
Being upfront about his intentions seems to defuse conflict with authorities, he says, if only because it so thoroughly confuses them.
To do this it wants to equip as many people as possible with the skills and confidence to make immediate brief interventions to defuse conflict.
She showed slides of bonobos, including one captioned "MAKE LOVE NOT WAR," and said that the apes, which she described as "bisexual," engaged in various kinds of sexual activity in order to defuse conflict and maintain a tranquil society.
"The female brain," she writes, "has tremendous unique aptitudes — outstanding verbal agility, the ability to connect deeply in friendship, a nearly psychic capacity to read faces and tone of voice for emotions and states of mind, and the ability to defuse conflict".
Patricia Leigh Brown and Jim Wilson document an alternative discipline program in Oakland, Calif., called restorative justice that helps students learn from crises and defuse conflicts in the article "Opening Up, Students Transform a Vicious Circle" and the related slide show "Defusing Conflict in Schools".
The members of Unasur, a fledgling South American political union, set up a defence council intended to defuse conflicts.
If a full-fledged war breaks out, "both sides will run out of money soon," said E J Hogendoorn, an analyst for the International Crisis Group, which works to defuse conflicts.
Graham Allison joins many others in presenting them as "a guide for how to defuse conflicts, manage great-power relationships, and make sound decisions about foreign policy in general".
"At the very least it's a first step that one should attempt to follow up with other actions on both sides," said Mark L. Schneider, senior vice president of the International Crisis Group in Washington, a nongovernmental group that works to defuse conflicts.
