Peace monitors

Channelnewsasia.com: "Up to 160 monitors from the Aceh Monitoring Mission (AMM) would depart from Medan, the capital of North Sumatra province, AMM press officer Faye Belnis told AFP by telephone from Banda Aceh, the Acehnese capital."

Even though some people have said this will fail before it has even been given a chance, this whole process is so New Millennium. A different way of approaching thigs. For a start eh oppsoing sides met in Helsinki and stayed there until they could reach a peace accord which they could sign. Then they have a clear plan to follow with achievable goals which will shift the emphasis over a period of time. How sensible is that? And they have been trainign the pece monitors in Medan since they come from Europe and Asia. What a great co operative approach from planet earth. We need to go about things in a measured way and with a mthodology which is likely to succeed. It's not as if we do not have enough research under our belts in this day and age. It's like the Gaza Strip pull out. That has been planned and enabled in an achievable way with allowance for the human emotional cup to run over in a controlled fashion. There are places which are starting to develop a new approach to conflict resolution and much needed change and upgrade.