Even if the Tigers are now hoping only to buy time for rearming and recruitment, as many Sri Lankans fear, there is a peace constituency in the country as well as an antiterrorism sentiment outside, Ms. Schaffer said.
This peace constituency, often driven by moral and political ideals, provides the key force behind the opposition to U.S. wars in their early stages.
Of course, there is also an important American peace constituency, which has formed long-term peace organizations, including Peace Action, Physicians for Social Responsibility, the Fellowship of Reconciliation, the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and other antiwar groups.
This approach builds on the multi-level framework described by Lederach [ 27] that incorporates three main components: 1) integrating of short-term and long-term transformations, 2) establishing an infrastructure for peacebuilding and 3) building a peace constituency.
Anti-war and pro-peace constituencies should ask the tough questions and agitate for non-violent solutions.
The "protesters" descending on the city represent the solid pro-peace constituency in the country.
Although planes from both flight paths come over his constituency, alternation means residents in different parts of the constituency get peace and quiet for approximately half the day.
The constituency for peace was very quiet.
"Indian goods are of good quality and cheaper in price; this will develop a huge constituency for peace and deeper integration".
But many Israelis were appalled by the deaths, perhaps especially because the victims were not soldiers or settlers, but members of the Israeli peace camp's core constituency.
But the further both the government and the front go down the current path, the larger the constituency for peace becomes and the less likely either side is to turn back.The same two principles could work elsewhere in Asia.
