Josh Fisher's work centers on trying to avert conflict and provide opportunities for cooperation through understanding the relationships between conflict, environment and development.
It is part of America's efforts to avert conflict in the sea, a vital maritime thoroughfare for a big proportion of world trade.
Deals were struck to avert conflict over organizing new territory three times: the Missouri Compromise of 1820, the Compromise of 1850 and the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854.
After the failed peace talks at Camp David last July and during the recent weeks of violence, Mrs. Rabin asserted that Mr. Barak had not done enough to avert conflict and reach peace.
Alarmed at the approaching threat of war in the Persian Gulf, Arab leaders maintained efforts today to avert conflict but acknowledged they had found no new formula to achieve their goals, and it appeared that an Algerian initiative had produced no results.
To avert conflict in Quebec, the British passed the Quebec Act of 1774, expanding Quebec's territory to the Great Lakes and Ohio Valley.
Amir Khaledi, who owns a kiosk selling Iranian-made shoes and sandals, said he supported Rouhani's nuclear diplomacy as a way to avert conflict with the United States and end Iran's long estrangement with the West.
If the concept of health diplomacy is developed thoughtfully and rigorously by Foreign Service and medical leaders, it may help to avert conflict, augment peace, support altruism and economic progress and cement sustainable international cooperation.
For example, staffers who write about business and finance must periodically disclose their holdings and investments so ranking editors can avert conflicts in coverage assignments.
Mr. Land and other government officials said they hoped the new federal plan for dealing with "panther-human interactions" and educating the public would avert conflicts like the one concerning Florida Panther 124.
