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...hopes that the Peace Lab will be able to learn from Indonesia’s success in peacefully resolving internal conflict to teach conflict resolution techniques to professionals hoping to replicate its success. The nation was beset by violent separatist movements in recent years—most notably in Aceh and East Timor—and managed to resolve both conflicts through diplomatic means. Because of Indonesia’s ability to weather such conflicts, Totok Soefijanto, a deputy rector at Paramadina University, wrote in an e-mail that he thinks the country serves as a model for other nations...
Ahtisaari's most successful effort may have been in 2005, when he hosted talks between the Indonesian government and separatist rebels from the province of Aceh that ultimately led to the cessation of hostilities after 130 years of fighting. He also helped bring an end to war and nearly 10 years of negotiations in Namibia, paving the way to that country's independence in 1990. In Iraq, the diplomat has hosted talks between feuding Sunni and Shi'ite groups, modeled on successful dialogues in South Africa and Northern Ireland...
...early polls are an indication, could next year become the first Indonesian President to win re-election. Since coming to power in 2004, S.B.Y., as he is known, has presided with integrity, with fewer political scandals than normal to sully his rule. In the resource-rich territory of Aceh, S.B.Y. spearheaded a historic accord that has brought peace to a former civil-war battleground. Despite the fact that Indonesia gave birth to Jemaah Islamiah, an al-Qaeda-linked terrorist movement that twice targeted tourists on the resort island of Bali, the Indonesian government has waged one of the world...
...needed radical reform. A year later, after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, Mikhail Gorbachev saw that the Soviet Union could not continue in its old ways, and redoubled his nascent commitment to glasnost and perestroika. The Asian tsunami of 2004 prompted those who lived in the devastated Indonesian province of Aceh to find a political solution to the divisions that had long blighted them...
...willingness of the generals to even entertain the idea of outside help was enough to excite Burma watchers who have been waiting for decades for something - anything - that might augur a sliver of openness from the military leadership. Hopeful aid workers point to the Indonesian province of Aceh, where the 2004 tsunami galvanized warring factions to lay down their arms. But Burma's seclusion is more akin to that of North Korea, a country that gulps down foreign aid without reciprocal political concessions. And corruption is so rampant in Burma that NGOs worry about how much aid will actually reach...