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U.S. officials are trying to preserve a truce that has reduced violence and created the possibility for a negotiated settlement to the war.

The Earth’s magnetic field is far from constant. We can track its shifts in rocks that melt and then resolidify. Archaeological finds containing once-burned rocks can be precisely dated using this method. By utilizing the ancient orientation of the Earth’s magnetic field, scientists have been able to piece together the history of military conquests in ancient Judea.

A movement led by Amílcar Cabral fought against Portuguese rule in Guinea-Bissau and won independence against seemingly overwhelming odds. It also contributed to the end of white-settler rule in Southern Africa and the democratic revolution in Portugal itself.

Nor will they train for war anymore.” Isaiah2:3-4

What if all our schools required training in skilled, non-violent conflict resolution as a form of peace literacy and moral awareness for their students. Would that not be one of the most useful education skills for life that we could give them?

Human beings are still bought, owned and sold in the 21st century. Many of the reasons trace back to causes like poverty, corruption and inequality. But they also stem from something less discussed: war.

Vladimir Putin likes to talk about the second world war, Russia’s best war, but the closest parallel is probably the Crimean war, which dragged on for two and a half years, from 1853 to 1856, before the exhausted belligerents worked out a peace agreement.

At the close of the Civil War, people recently freed from slavery in Charleston honored fallen Union soldiers. A battered U.S. was faced with the task of burying and honoring the 600,000 to 800,000 Union and Confederate soldiers who had died.

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