Bush also signed a bilateral investment treaty, pledged to help fight AIDS in Rwanda, and announced the return of an active Peace Corps program to the country.
In decades past, there was a highly active peace movement in America.
But Caracas is worse, with homicides rising nearly threefold from 1998 to 3,973 homicides last year, for a murder rate of 122 per 100,000, said Active Peace, a group that studies crime trends here.
Active peace can be increasing our inner clarity, having a feeling of inner calm, and a deeper sense of personal balance -- it is the inner state of ease.
Both were active peace campaigners.
He added, "We and the other members of the European Union have more than 40,000 military personnel in active peace support missions around the globe, and our military is taught to respect universal humanitarian law, universal human rights and so on and we prosecute those who do not do so".
It was Hubert H. Humphrey who reminded us, "Peace is not passive, it is active; peace is not appeasement, it is strength; peace does not happen, it requires work".
