On Monday, Putin argued that, in the Middle East, "foreign interference" has brought about "violence, poverty, and social disaster".
The fact is that both in Bosnia and in Kosovo, independent local forces can take matters into their own hands and in a very short time bring about renewed violence that we will be hard-pressed to contain.
I received a mass e-mail from a women's group I admire, V-Day, calling on people to oppose military intervention because "such an action would simply bring about more violence and suffering.... Experience shows us that military interventions harm innocent women, men and children".
This feels like an ultimate reversal of the relation between humanity and environment envisaged in the religious vision – the material world's processes deliberately harnessed to bring about domination by violence; though, when you think about it, it is only a projection of the existing history of military technology.
Madung fears the election will bring about the usual violence.
He's not exactly the right person to be telling students to learn from "people who are able to bring about change, not through violence, not through money, but through the force of their personality and their ethical and moral stances".
"We always welcome efforts to bring about a cessation of violence, but there are minimal standards that have been set after more than three years of violence," he said.
Gen. David A. Petraeus, the top American commander here, praised General Odierno as one of the chief architects of the increase in American troops that the military says has helped bring about the reduction in violence over the last year.
So when women challenge their status, it will initially bring about resistance and sometimes violence.
Terror, brought about from violence and the threat of violence, inhibits coping strategies in everyday living, contributes to psychoses and neuroses, lessens trust in others, and makes victims withdraw and become less likely to strike back (Cudd 2006, 159 160).
