In November 2004, a peaceful solution was within reach, when the government and rebels signed a ceasefire and humanitarian agreement.

Wait, truce!

Such a truce is possible.

The deal did not last long.

The truce did not last long.

The right of humanitarian intervention limits the sovereignty of all other countries.

Dokubu then forced Obasanjo into a peace deal.

This was a campaign against land owners.

The truce was broken by gunfire in the Ukraine.

Israel and Hamas agreed to an open ended truce last Tuesday.

Although an official ceasefire was declared in September, violent clashes continue.

But they had a truce so it was safer.

Hamas apparently did not envision a full scale confrontation with Israel when it refused to renew a six month truce.

Oftentimes, such conversations result in a truce along specific sections of the front.

Today, humanitarian intervention has become a dirty word for many of the same people who once believed in it.

Acknowledging that international human rights law and international humanitarian law are complementary and not mutually exclusive,

Take a look at the ceasefire in southwest Syria, which has held firm for almost a month already .

Reaffirming the need to promote and ensure respect for the principles and rules of international law, including international humanitarian law,

Emphasizing that human rights law and international humanitarian law are complementary and mutually reinforcing,

With Gaza suffering under a lengthy siege, Hamas leader Khalid Mashal said that there was no point in a new truce, since the old one had failed to lift the siege on Gaza.

Despite the fragile ceasefire in Lebanon, the risks of a widening war in the Middle East remain.

West African country Togo's students' struggle for better education conditions is now in its fifth week and despite a recent truce, tensions remains high in the capital Lomé.

Noting with grave concern the dire humanitarian situation that the Somali people face and the urgent need for humanitarian assistance and relief,

Hamas rejects any peace with Israel, and is at best prepared to agree to a temporary truce.

An initial truce, by means of international mediation, can lead to a monitored long term truce and reconstruction in Gaza.

The proposed exit seems to reflect a truce accord among the Fed s hawks and doves.

A joint ultimatum by the European powers forced the Porte to give Serbia a one month truce and start peace negotiations.

I believe, instead, that it is a false truce in what will become a pitched battle for the soul of American politics.

Rather, it is a move aimed at establishing a balance of threat based on sustaining a low intensity conflict even if a new lull is agreed upon.

As the conflict in eastern Ukraine simmers on an uneasy ceasefire, Russian lawmakers might consider returning to the prewar politics of moral outrage.

Since last year, when the truce between the government and the gangs ended, the homicide rate has skyrocketed, growing over 50 percent.

NEW YORK The ongoing bloodletting in Syria is not only the world s greatest humanitarian disaster by far, but also one of its gravest geopolitical risks.

Regardless of the latest hastily negotiated truce, the battle between nationalist Fatah and Islamist Hamas seems to be gaining intensity.

Given this mission, it would seem that the IMF should help extract concessions from China and the rest of the world should declare a truce.

If not, the UN, NATO and the European Union will discredit themselves as well as the humanitarian values they use to justify their humanitarian'' interventions.

Russia s leaders (and China s) seek to uphold an international system that relies on the unconditional sovereignty of states and rejects the Western inspired, humanitarian droit d ingérence. Concerned that the Arab rebellions would radicalize their own repressed minorities, they refuse to allow the UN Security Council to be used to promote revolutionary changes in the Arab world.

Russia s leaders (and China s) seek to uphold an international system that relies on the unconditional sovereignty of states and rejects the Western inspired, humanitarian droit d ingérence.

Can Kosovo achieve independence without the tacit consent of Russia, and can there be a humanitarian and political solution to the tragedy in Darfur without the active goodwill of China?

That lead to Sadat s peace and Assad s 1974 cease fire on the Golan Heights, which has never been violated since.

There is currently no guarantee that a political truce with Hamas or Hezbollah would result in a renunciation of their absolutist vision. Nonetheless, there can be a diplomatic process with rights and obligations.

Likewise, the West must recognize that reconciliation in Syria will be impossible without reconciliation between the Sunni and Shia regimes in the wider region.

1 1 3 , another Azerbaijani blog, also posts an entry in memory of a figure who stood for reconciliation and friendship between nations.

Unless a humanitarian intervention is structured in such a way that it guarantees basic security, the underlying antagonisms that inspired the intervention in the first place will merely be reinforced, not diminished.

6. Calls upon all Afghan groups to renounce the use of violence, respect human rights and international humanitarian law, respect the authority of the Transitional Administration and implement fully the provisions of the Bonn Agreement

The armistice that was agreed four years later, after about 20 million people had died, amounted only to an interlude before the horror of World War II.