Sentence examples for ceasefire efforts from inspiring English sources

Abbas was due to travel to Cairo later on Friday to meet Egyptian intelligence officials to discuss ceasefire efforts.

Qatar and Turkey are reported to have been key to ceasefire efforts as they can communicate with Hamas, which has difficult relations with many other countries.

Kenneth Roth, the director of Human Rights Watch, has accused De Mistura of "not getting the big picture" and chasing quixotic local ceasefire efforts.

The move by Hamas, which is not a PLO member, came after almost seven weeks of a cross-border war with Israel and several failed ceasefire efforts.

Rapid Egyptian and US-led ceasefire efforts in November 2012 helped ensure that the then Israeli operation "Pillars of Defence" would last only eight days and with far less devastating consequences.

July 17 , 20141.16pm BST Ceasefire efforts 'ongoing' Efforts in Cairo to reach a ceasefire agreement are "ongoing", I've been told by an Israeli government official here in Jerusalem - suggesting that reports that a truce will start at 6am tomorrow are premature, writes Harriet Sherwood.

The 2011 documentary film "The Interrupters" profiles the organization CeaseFire's efforts to reduce violence through conflict mediation.

A study of CeaseFire's efforts in Chicago by the U.S. Department of Justice found substantial reductions in homicides, ranging from 41 percent to 73 percent, in nearly all of the neighborhoods in which CeaseFire was operating.

But the study found that in six of the seven neighborhoods examined, CeaseFire's efforts reduced the number of shootings or attempted shootings by 16percentto27percentcent more than it had declined in comparable neighborhoods.

For example, interventions to improve the social cognitive skills of youth and family based programmes to enhance parental monitoring of youth, as well as community level programmes such as Ceasefire's efforts to diffuse escalating community violence 42 43 44 and boys and girls clubs' work to provide stable adult mentors 45 could be introduced on this basis.

In addition, European efforts to shift ceasefire talks from Cairo to the United Nations in New York are more sympathetic to Hamas' demands for a lifting of the siege and international supervision of border crossings and reconstruction of Gaza -- the very steps that could reduce Israeli control of the process.