The warring parties, the resolution said, should renounce warfare and "pave the ground for a political solution and understanding to ensure on one hand protection of life of innocent people and on the other hand prevention of further destruction of Afghanistan".
Whether we are trying to out-maneuver and win in a zero-sum game sense or we are trying to find common ground and a solution that is best for all, in other words whether the motive is selfish or altruistic, the most important skill is understanding how the other side thinks.
That meeting was supposed to lay the ground for perhaps the best hope for a solution - a tête-a-tête in Tokyo between Mr Putin and Japanese prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi.
Mr Obama took office hoping that by pairing unprecedented security co-operation with Israel and public outreach to the Muslim world he could prepare the ground for a two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"It's a matter of preparing the ground for a two-state solution, so that at least 75percentt of the people on both sides are in favor of it," said Walter Isaacson, president of the Aspen Institute in Washington, who is active in Palestinian affairs.
The private sector is a testing ground for such solutions - weeding out inefficient and unproductive strategies - and developing entrepreneur-driven, market-based operations that provide insights into strategies for achieving scale elsewhere.
FERC has rejected all such pleas on the grounds that a lasting solution is for a free market to set rates.
China is becoming the global testing ground for innovative solutions to financing green growth, accounting for about half of the so-called green bond issuance worldwide.
However, with only 26% of Lazada's traffic, Ascend still has a long way to go before taking a page out of Peter Thiel's playbook and turning its ecommerce properties into a fertile breeding ground for its payment solutions.
As a testing ground for these reforms, Medicare is a solution to rising health care costs — the opposite of the "vise" Mr. Brooks describes.
