THE moment when a throng of peacefully moving people turns into a panicked herd is difficult to predict.
Today, may the Haitian people end exiles and coup d'états, while peacefully moving from social exclusion to inclusion".
"We were acting peacefully, moving gradually and we were against violence," said Riyad Seif, a former MP who was imprisoned for four years in September 2001.
And the idea of people peacefully moving in and out of the Presidency -- a near-revolutionary concept on a continent where leaders have habitually sought to perpetuate their rule, almost always to ruinous effect -- is now universally acknowledged there.
It is because this prospect is so real that the task of peacefully moving to a sustainable capitalism, and building the necessary institutions to do it, is so vital for both China and the world.
But there is a paradox of sorts in asking people brutalized by decades of war to simply reconcile differences peacefully and move on to the urgent priorities of their continued survival, especially when issues of identity, place and purpose have been so completely hardened by violence.
People were told that famine relief would be provided only to those who moved peacefully.
"Bearing the burden of their suffering on their shoulders, they moved peacefully toward Tahrir Square in Cairo, Egypt's capital, demanding only justice, freedom and democracy".
Except for a few unruly outbursts, food also moved peacefully into the hands of the hungry in the central community of Nazon.
