The bicycle is racing to finish.

To the parties to the conflict

Some hotspots of conflict are beginning to see progress in a favourable direction.

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So we dashed, all of us, towards the shelter.

She catches up with the lead pack and is pushing toward the finish line.

Rammed it forwards. Bounced down the runway. Just took off.

Stefan Wolff The path to ending ethnic conflicts

A sustainable transition from conflict to peace, however, depends on the prompt re establishment of national capacities that have been eroded by conflict.

You give her a quick crack in the teeth with your elbow and blaze for the finish line.

Some delegations expressed preference for the third preambular paragraph in the Chairman's text, which employed the terms conflict and post conflict situations .

He raced between three Brighton defenders, before slashing into the open field.

It can wash the sludge off high mountain peaks and hills, down into the lowlands. So stop and think for a minute.

He later rushed up to the firing line and with the greatest gallantry led the line forward before rushing a field gun single handed and knocked out three of the detachment.

Because of the porosity of the borders and the historically fluid nature of the conflict in the subregion, we will feel safe and secure only in a conflict free region.

You shoot at these people the Marines are going to come over and kill you.

The Organization's support for countries in transition from crisis to development required an accurate articulation of peacebuilding, conflict prevention and post conflict assistance.

Australia will continue to support Afghanistan's transition from conflict to peace and democracy.

The armed groups are rearming and the conflict is spreading outside Darfur.

But introverts, you being you, you probably have the impulse to guard very carefully what's inside your own suitcase.

A modality needs to be found for the inclusion of the legitimate voice of small States that have, by their own experience, spanned the transition from conflict to relief and then to development.

That body has the potential to improve dramatically the performance of the United Nations in the area of conflict prevention by assisting countries to make the transition to long term recovery and by preventing the relapse into conflict.

Let us sprint towards the achievement of the Millennium Goals, and not jog as though it were a marathon.

So, we try to get to the door, and we run to the door, and we open the door and it's like walking into a blast furnace.

Several speakers also informed the Conference of the difficulties such States had faced in efforts at disarmament.

But then the monsoon arrives, and unfortunately downriver there is always a dam or there is always a barrage, and, shoop, they get washed down to their doom.

I try to balance my life equally between physics, love and surfing my own three charge directions.

We need a Peacebuilding Commission to help countries in conflict make the transition from war to durable peace.

In the meantime, we are doing our utmost through our good offices to help steer the process towards prudent conflict management.

15. Calls upon all parties to armed conflict to ensure the full, safe and unhindered access of humanitarian personnel and the delivery of humanitarian assistance to all children affected by armed conflict

Further work in this field should be directed towards strengthening of the Kimberley Process as a unique international forum aimed at exclusion of conflict diamonds from legal trade and prevention of their use in funding conflicts.

ILO can offer those living in poverty its experience in dialogue and conflict resolution as a way of advancing their interests

The experience of the Economic and Social Council's ad hoc advisory groups on African countries emerging from conflict has demonstrated the central role that post conflict peacebuilding plays in ensuring a smooth transition to stability and development.

Mindful of the role of the International Committee of the Red Cross in offering protection to the victims of armed conflicts,

The Committee conveyed its condolences to the States that had suffered from the impact of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in December 2004 and its aftermath.

It will help prevent conflicts from restarting and encourage countries to make the transition from violent instability to peaceful, sustained development.

Her delegation emphasized the importance of human rights and democratic foundations in conflict torn societies and called on the international community to provide assistance to the parties in conflict who had embarked on the road to democracy.

At the beach where I surfed today, I heard about a ceremony that had taken place there earlier in the season a farewell to a local surfer who had died at a ripe old age. His fellow surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his ashes were scattered over the surface.

Iraq pays tribute to the United Nations, which has provided the world with a broad umbrella to prevent wars and resolve conflicts.

Recognizing also the vital role of the United Nations in preventing conflicts, assisting parties to conflicts to end hostilities and emerge towards recovery, reconstruction and development and in mobilizing sustained international attention and assistance,

Recognizing also the vital role of the United Nations in preventing conflicts, assisting parties to conflicts to end hostilities and emerge towards recovery, reconstruction and development and in mobilizing sustained international attention and assistance,

(a) Continue encouraging an organizational value and preventive institutional approach to conflict management and conflict resolution by providing independent and confidential assistance to all staff with employment problems

When we're turning, we have the feeling of surfing, and the way it's going up wind, it's very efficient.

And so, for tasks like this, a narrow focus, where you just see the goal right there, zoom straight ahead to it, they work really well.

Enjoyment of human rights is a key indicator of the transition of a nation from a state of armed conflict to one of peace and stability.