And a growing number of Colombians want "la mano dura," a strong hand against guerrillas whose long-running civil conflict is sustained by the drug trade.
The traditional just war theory, allied as it has been with the international law of armed conflict, has sustained a remarkable consensus for at least several centuries.
As the neofunctionalist school suggests, the idea is to increase economic interpenetration between erstwhile hostile countries, seeking to raise the level of interdependence to the point where armed conflict and sustained mutual isolation become economically unsupportable.
That conflict was sustained by stockpiles of arms left over from the Cold War and topped up by various foreign governments including the US, which backed the corrupt and ineffective Transitional Federal Government that was dismantled last year.
UNICEF joins United Nations' call for a rapid resolution of the conflict and sustained social investment for building lasting peace in the Rakhine State.
UNICEF joins the United Nations' call for rapid resolution of the conflict and sustained social investment for building lasting peace in the Rakhine State.
A negotiated solution to the conflict and sustained donor commitment are the only long term solutions to improve the lives of children in Darfur.
In the case of the Colombian peace deal, significant opposition to a deal pushed through from above could reawaken the underlying conflicts that sustained the civil war for so long.
"May the bloodshed by thousands of innocent people during long decades of armed conflict... sustain all the efforts being made, including those on this beautiful island, to achieve definitive reconciliation," the pope said in his Angelus address at the end of the mass from Havana's Revolution Square.
The need to create heightened dramatic conflict to sustain the story leads reporters to seek out people who represent the most extreme positions, which distorts the complexity of the issues even more.
