"She emphasised Russia's major responsibility for de-escalation and watching over its own frontiers".
He urged "calm and de-escalation" and renewed contacts between Moscow and Ankara.
The president says Russia has shown signs of cooperating in a de-escalation and "we are encouraging them to do so".
And yet the two capitals seem to remain, even now, on autopilot with their standard calls for de-escalation and condemnations of "provocative" behavior.
Her campaign promises that she will "invest in law enforcement training programs on issues such as implicit bias, use of force, and de-escalation", and "support legislation to ban racial profiling by federal, state, and local law enforcement officials".
"I want to assure you, on behalf of the government of Pakistan, we will immediately respond to any initiative that the government of India takes toward de-escalation and disengagement," Mr. Sattar said.
Dallas police chief David Brown has won plaudits for those he's implemented in Dallas, where he emphasized de-escalation and has seen police abuse complaints plummet in the last few years.
Unless the Bush administration makes the Arab-Israeli conflict a priority and works to put it on a path of de-escalation and resolution, broader American policies in the region will be troubled.
They speak mostly of seeking ways of ensuring "de-escalation" and finding an "off-ramp" for Russia principally the idea of sending UN or OSCE monitors to eastern Ukraine to report on the treatment of Russian-speakers.
But state's attorney Marilyn Mosby saw a direct link between the reforms that the department has already undertaken – such as a new use of force policy that favors de-escalation and cameras in the back of police vans – to the trials of the officers.
In the meantime, pragmatism dictates that they should be strongly pushing for a de-escalation and freezing of the conflict, creating conditions in which localised ceasefires can hold, and an environment both conducive to this peace process and hostile to those against it.
