This hope alone keeps the country from disintegrating into a thousand warring parts.

The U.S. Secretary of State is trying to broker a ceasefire between the warring parties.

In October 2006, for example, Mecca was used to host talks among Iraq s warring sectarian factions.

The resulting destruction brought reconciliation between warring Palestinian factions and support for them throughout the Arab world.

Warring factions do not even recognize the notion of unaffiliated noncombatants, and flout international norms of war.

In fact, the PDP has splintered into three warring factions, drastically reducing Obasanjo s chances to control the succession.

Warring parties start to negotiate seriously only if and when they know that other alternatives are out of reach.

The notion used to be frowned upon because any warring party tends to view its own cause as just.

2. Stresses that the responsibility for the humanitarian crisis lies with all warring parties, in particular with the Taliban

Fighting terrorism is not a war, because terrorism itself is not a warring party, but a means to an end.

Warring partners signed a Compromise Peace Agreement on August 27, 2015, the implementation of which has been slow and problematic.

To be sure, there are many reasons to be pessimistic about the willingness of Syria s warring parties to engage in serious negotiations.

(c) The civilian massacres involving reprisal killings and summary executions following, in recent years, the taking and retaking of particular areas by warring parties

For German conservatives, European integration and national identity are not warring concepts, as they seem to be to our opponents and so many others.

In the days after the so called Roadmap for Peace between Israel and Palestine was unveiled, a new cycle of violence exploded between the warring parties.

Nevertheless, it was not until Ronald Reagan forged an alliance between conservatism s two traditionally warring factions that the political foundations of neo conservatism s triumph were secured.

The Central African Republic has been marred by conflict since 2012 when the Muslim faction Seleka and the Anti Balaka began warring over control of the territory.

This model is being hailed internationally as a possible compromise formula for ending intractable conflicts where atrocities cannot go unpunished but incentives must be found to disarm warring factions.

Moreover, when a crisis is winding down and there are openings for moderating influences, outside intervention can prove instrumental in enforcing peace and bringing warring factions to the negotiating table.

The National Assembly is negotiating a social security law that may turn out to be reasonable a flap over the education law is giving way to agreements among warring parties.

The National Assembly is negotiating a social security law that may turn out to be reasonable a flap over the education law is giving way to agreements among warring parties.

In contrast, any attempt by the KRG to establish a Kurdish corridor to the Mediterranean would certainly meet resistance, not only from Turkey, but also from other warring factions in Syria.

This comes at a time when the warring factions have agreed to form a government of national unity, which South Sudanese and the international community hopewill bring an end to violence.

But a ceasefire agreement to stand, it must be followed immediately with a concerted effort to produce a political solution to the issues that caused the warring parties to attack each other.

The answer, at its most general, appears simple Putin took the two warring clans of Boris Berezovsky and Anatoly Chubais which together control much of Russia's wealth and public space and united them behind him.

Expressing its grave concern at the serious violations of human rights and international humanitarian law, in particular by the Taliban, in Afghanistan and at the inadequacy of measures taken by the warring factions to reverse the situation,

She would join the head of the legislature, Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, and the head of the judiciary, Supreme Court President Dorit Beinish not bad for a warring nation with generals turned politicians and a macho public image.

A less partisan intervention pouring in troops and airpower to separate the warring parties forcibly also has no takers, no likely UN authority, and only marginal hope of causing less harm than it would be intended to avoid.

A strong international peacekeeping force, agreed by the UN, and perhaps led by the US or NATO, must be placed between the warring sides, and must be prepared to suffer losses to terrorists in the service of peace.

This alludes to an ancient episode in which soldiers from the warring states of Wu and Yue found themselves on the same boat on a river in a storm and agreed to put down their arms to make a common passage.

In September the head of the Russian center for reconciliation of the warring parties in the republic lieutenant general Vladimir Savchenko announced that two American F 15 planes had launched strikes on the Syrian province Deir ez Zor with banned white phosphorus munitions.

After their qualification for this year s World Cup, the Ivory Coast s national team, including players from the north and south, addressed all of their fellow citizens, asking the warring factions to lay down their weapons and to put an end to the conflict that has shattered their country.

A solution is possible only if the outside world is prepared to police an agreement reached between the moderate majorities. A strong international peacekeeping force, agreed by the UN, and perhaps led by the US or NATO, must be placed between the warring sides, and must be prepared to suffer losses to terrorists in the service of peace.

As the launch of the peace process at the 1991 Madrid International Peace Conference demonstrated, the prospects for peace in the Middle East always needed a concerted international push to exploit windows of opportunity. Wars in the Middle East, especially those , such as Israel s recent war against Hezbollah, that ended inconclusively, have almost invariably created the conditions for major political breakthroughs, because they taught the warring parties the limits of power.