The legislation would also fund a peace academy, advancing our awareness that peace education and the presence of peacemakers in our society are crucial parts of the future we hope to build.
An annual ranking published by the Fund for Peace, a think-tank in Washington DC, always features the usual black spots: Somalia, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti.
The organisation that produces the index, the Fund for Peace, is the kind of outfit John le Carré thinks we should all be having nightmares about.
Soft partition has been advocated in different ways by Joe Biden and Les Gelb, by Michael O'Hanlon and Edward Joseph, by Pauline Baker at the Fund for Peace, and in a more extreme version, by Peter Galbraith.
"The defense and foreign ministers who backed the war are not the finance and treasury ministers who have to fund the peace or the interior ministers who have to provide the police.
Mr. Richardson's remarks about a United Nations role were made at the Fund For Peace Convocation as he urged preventive steps that would keep localized conflicts from widening into a confrontation between the Soviet Union and the United States.
She also calculated a political instability index using an analysis of state failure and conflict published by the Fund for Peace, a research organization that combines 12 social, economic and political indicators to estimate the relative stability of the world's nations.
We have recommended -- based on studies done every six months since the U.S. invasion -- that the administration face up to the reality that the only choices for Iraq are how and how violently it will break up". In a parallel series of reports, the Fund for Peace, a research and advocacy group, suggests a policy of managed partition for Iraq.
Iraq now ranks as the world's second most unstable country, ahead of war-ravaged or poverty-stricken nations such as Somalia, Zimbabwe, Ivory Coast, Congo, Afghanistan, Haiti and North Korea, according to the 2007 Failed States Index, issued yesterday by the Fund for Peace and Foreign Policy magazine.
Senior Researcher Nate Haken was also interviewed on the crafting of the Failed States Index at the Fund for Peace by the Universität der Bundeswehr on October 8, 2013.
