Even his nickname — "the diplomat sheik" — is testament to his role as a pragmatist seeking conciliation for the Islamic leadership.
Just returned from two months in the Middle East on behalf of the State Department, seeking conciliation between Muslims and other religions, Rauf continued, "Let us commemorate the anniversary of 9/11 by pausing to reflect and meditate and tone down the vitriol and rhetoric that serves only to strengthen the radicals and weaken our friends' belief in our values".
General Reyes sought conciliation, saying Mr. Estrada and his family should be allowed to "exit with dignity".
"This is why, despite overwhelming support for industrial action, the BMA instead sought conciliation talks with the Government, talks which were initially rejected and delayed by Jeremy Hunt.
In the same speech to the tribunal, Mr. Fox also sought conciliation with gay Mexicans, whom he had offended with several homophobic campaign remarks.
In Laos, Mr. Obama will open ties with another reclusive communist state and will seek conciliation years after the United States dropped numerous bombs — many of which remain buried and unexploded — on the country during the Vietnam War.
But he also urged Mr. Arafat to seek conciliation, saying, "I know that you, too, are convinced that only patience and courageous dialogue will offer the way to the future, which your people rightly deserve".
And, once again, one marvelled at the ability of Obama's opponents to hate with such a passion a man so seemingly impossible even for his teen-age daughter to dislike — a man who never takes the bait of rage, who sometimes seeks conciliation to crazy fault, and has said scarcely an angry, mean-spirited, or intemperate thing in his public life.
Neither the Islamist movement nor its Fatah rival can see a quick or easy way out of this new impasse, even if logic suggests both must seek conciliation to avoid a permanent geographical and political split between the coastal enclave and the West Bank - the two parts of any putative Palestinian state.
WARSAW, Aug. 18 — The Foreign Ministers of Poland and West Germany today put their initials to a treaty seeking re conciliation after the painful past of World War II.
Obama's speech in Cairo on June will mark the third time he has addressed the Muslim world, seeking partnership and conciliation with Muslims jaded by George Bush's unrelentingly belligerent and humiliating "war on terror" policies and his divisive, poisonous rhetoric.
