The Security Council is in theory responsible for resolving the world's biggest crises -- war, genocide, poverty, injustice, inequality -- but in practice has often dissolved into a dissonant debating society.
The offers were made in 2008-09, in the wake of George Bush's Annapolis conference, and were privately hailed by Erekat as giving Israel "the biggest Yerushalayim [the Hebrew name for Jerusalem] in history" in order to resolve the world's most intractable conflict.
If it was resolved, the world would be in better shape.
But it underlines how dim prospects now are for any progress in resolving perhaps the world's most intractable conflict.
With the added luster of such an award, peace activists hope that President Obama will wade more deeply into resolving the deadliest conflicts in the world in the last half century: Sudan and Congo.
Boldface indicates p < 0.001 and *<0.05 The medical model of health care has led to major improvement in health in the Western world but resolving the clinical aspects of an illness ignores the impact on quality of life in the patient's social context, generating unmet need.
Mohammed Ibrahim Kamel, who resigned as Egypt's foreign minister in 1978 in protest against the Camp David peace accords with Israel, predicting accurately that they would isolate Egypt in the Arab world without resolving the Palestinian question, died on Nov. 22 in Cairo, the Foreign Ministry announced.
Hopefully, they will play a part in resolving, rather than exacerbating, the problems of the world.
His mere words about Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba helped resolve the worst crisis the world has ever known without the U.S. having to fire a shot.
