The many requirements to secure the peace — functioning courts and other government services — seem months away.
Hugh Hetherington Sandwich, Kent The conclusion to John Gray's lament exposes the contradiction within it: he accepts that there is no peace without "functioning states"; but functioning states are examples of the same "social institutions" he has dismissed a thousand words earlier.
For the first time today, administration officials acknowledged what they have been saying privately for nearly a week: that getting the peace process functioning again would be a near impossibility during the remainder of the Clinton administration.
If a transitional society cannot consolidate peace and functioning government, the very effort to create a decent new state suffers shipwreck.
Their key feature is that all personnel are trained not only in ambulance (EMT) care, but as a firefighter and a peace officer (police function).
These are not things to be taken for grantedOnly a few hours by plane from Paris, Berlin or London, people long for European privileges: free travel, peace, prosperity, a functioning judicial system.
With money channeled from fellow clansmen living in the United States and Europe, he has transformed Adado and its surroundings in central Somalia, which used to be haunted by bandits and warring Islamic factions, into an enclave of peace, with a functioning police force, scores of new businesses, new schools and new rules.
Nevertheless, I believe strongly in the importance of peace-building programs, even when the political peace processes are hardly functioning.
If it widens it too much, it risks undermining the core function of the peace prize.
But then again, this is a woman who was allegedly blacklisted by Disney at 12 for refusing to take off a peace badge at a showbiz function.
