"Liu Xiaobo has always worked to advance the peaceful democratic transformation of Chinese society, and to avoid the violence, rebellion and bloodshed of the past," said Zhang Zuhua, a former high-ranking official in the Communist Party Youth League and a chief force behind Charter '08.
Away from the frontline, a humanitarian crisis is growing elsewhere in the border region, as thousands of people attempt to avoid the violence.
The current texting-while-driving campaigns in the United States take emotional or funny approaches, and avoid the violence of the film from Wales.
Although many of them chafe under rebel rule, this region has avoided the violence of the rest of Colombia because neither the army nor an outlawed right-wing paramilitary group operate here.
We've avoided the violence of European revolutions quite extraordinarily because we're in fact a more institutionally and culturally conservative country than we'd like to think we are," said Richard Parker, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and senior fellow at the Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics and Public Policy.
For now, both sides seem to be working hard to avoid the kind of violence that could quickly escalate into chaos and bloodshed.
Observers are seeking to avoid the onslaught of violence that following the 2008 elections, in which the opposition captured 111 seats to Mr Mugabe's 99, and Mr Tsvangirai won the first round of the presidential vote, but was forced to boycott proceedings in protest against attacks on his supporters.
The Senate has voted to cut $164 million from the Bush administration's counterdrug program for the Andean region, and administration officials voiced concern today that the reductions could jeopardize efforts to assist Colombia in its battle against drug-financed rebels and to avoid the spread of violence and corruption.
Timbuktu Director: Abderrahmane Sissako Running time: 96 minutes Certificate: PG-13 Nominated for best foreign language film at the Oscars, this French-Mauritanian drama follows a family who try to avoid the suffering and violence of incoming jihadists.
Wanting to avoid the post-war violence of India, Aung San convened a meeting with ethnic groups in the small Shan town of Panglong.
