Abbas recently declared the era of Oslo -- the peace architecture created in 1993 and updated in 1995 -- dead and gone.
Second, the UN must develop a comprehensive, modern and effective operational peace architecture, encompassing prevention, conflict resolution, peacekeeping, peacebuilding and long-term development -- the "peace continuum," ensuring the primacy of political solutions at all stages.
Humanitarian action is also influenced by changes in the development assistance system and trends in UN Security Council mandates, including the development of systems and tools to support transitions in line with past and new Quadrennial comprehensive policy review (QCPR) recommendations, the peace building architecture, integrated UN missions, and the protection of civilians agenda.
Over the past 14 years, since its foundational meeting in Durban, South Africa, the AU has constructed an impressive peace and security architecture.
"This is a test for the peace and security architecture in the region," said Comfort Ero, Africa programme director of the International Crisis Group.
In an industry fueled by hype, Ando's architecture suggests peace and quiet.
Without wanting to denigrate motherhood, nor apple pie, both are much easier to come by than the construction of the architecture of peace – a complex, long-term and often frustrated project.
Richard Curtis's soppy film did no good, and by the turn of the century bankers had arrived in force – attracted, ironically, by the peace they shattered and architecture they wrecked.
"We shall be bold and innovative designers of a future architecture of peace and prosperity," declared Mr Vajpayee in a newspaper article he wrote during his winter holiday in the backwaters of Kerala.Pakistan has answered in kind: on December 20th it withdrew some of its troops from the "line of control", the unofficial border that divides Kashmir into Indian- and Pakistani-controlled zones.
Finally, we present the system architecture of PEACE-VO and design two protocols for VO management and authorization.
Artefacts and references, allusions and reminiscences, made a crazy peace with one another – Neoclassical architecture, Stalinism, the battle of Waterloo, the angry Victorian lions of Sir Edward Landseer, red London buses, Empire, German art shaped by American influence in the form of Hans Haacke's Gift Horse at present gracing the fourth plinth and, of course, Event Security Personnel.
