时间:2019-01-12 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(九月)


英语课

By George Dwyer
Washington, DC
28 September 2006
 
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Peace-building -- as defined by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan -- is "the process of creating the basic conditions for sustainable peace in war-torn societies," and is one of the principle tasks of the world body.  VOA's George Dwyer recently spoke 1 with some prominent – and prospective 2 – peace-building advocates outside Washington, D.C. about their role in helping 3 societies resolve conflict.


 
Dennis Sandole
After decades of armed conflict, and a dangerous on-going insurgency 4 against its elected government, Afghanistan -- like many other nations -- is looking for ways to promote peace. At George Mason University's Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, outside Washington, D.C., Professor Dennis Sandole and his students are trying to find ways to help.


"We offer insights about relationships between human beings that have gone bad -- so bad that they try to kill each other," said the professor.


This semester, Sandole is conducting a class in Peace building – coaxing 5 his students to examine the specific policies, organizational structures, social and political climates that tend to breed violence. Later they will learn strategies for transforming conflict into cooperation.


 
U.S. Student
"Peace building" interests me just because it approaches what happens after the conflict as well as during, which I think is an important piece of the process," said one student.


 
Student from Kenya
"Since I am from Kenya I thought it is good to take a class on peace building," said another student. "Kenya has been negotiating for their peace for the last many years."


"It is not just about teaching and grading and reading," said Sandole, "it is about making them "peace-builders."


Sandole's peace-building class promotes listening, negotiation 6, and mediation 7 as workable strategies for resolving disputes and avoiding, or stopping, violence. He says the role of "peace-builders" is to facilitate conflict resolution, not impose solutions.


"We should not be doing the work for them," he said. "For them, the parties to really arrive at something that is going to be sustainable, self-maintaining, they have to come up with it. What we should then do – and this is really an art form more than a science – what we then should do is help them."


The United Nations has promoted peace building throughout its existence. But it was given a new impetus 8 in 2005 when the U.N. Security Council met to discuss the current state of Peace Building in the world today. 


 
Paul Van Tongeren
Executive Director of the Global Partnership 9 for the Prevention of Armed Conflict, Paul van Tongeren, called for more active measures to promote peace-building activities. "It's intolerable that millions of civilians 10 die from violent conflict at a time when the international community has the knowledge and resources to prevent it.


Today that knowledge and those resources for preventing conflict are being passed on to a new generation of peace-builders in places like Dennis Sandole's class in Northern Virginia.



n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
adj.预期的,未来的,前瞻性的
  • The story should act as a warning to other prospective buyers.这篇报道应该对其他潜在的购买者起到警示作用。
  • They have all these great activities for prospective freshmen.这会举办各种各样的活动来招待未来的新人。
n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的,辅助的
  • The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
  • By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。
n.起义;暴动;叛变
  • And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国,动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
  • Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网
v.哄,用好话劝说( coax的现在分词 );巧言骗取;哄劝,劝诱;“锻炼”效应
  • No amount of coaxing will make me change my mind. 任你费尽口舌也不会说服我改变主意。
  • It took a lot of coaxing before he agreed. 劝说了很久他才同意。 来自辞典例句
n.谈判,协商
  • They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判,他们的食糖生意成交了。
  • The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。
n.调解
  • The dispute was settled by mediation of the third country. 这场争端通过第三国的斡旋而得以解决。
  • The dispute was settled by mediation. 经调解使争端得以解决。
n.推动,促进,刺激;推动力
  • This is the primary impetus behind the economic recovery.这是促使经济复苏的主要动力。
  • Her speech gave an impetus to my ideas.她的讲话激发了我的思绪。
n.合作关系,伙伴关系
  • The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
  • Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
学英语单词
all-cash
allenolic acid
ambiguines
antiosteoporosis
araise
artificially inflated cavity
asperumine
ballotings
Ban Don Wan
blebbistatin
braked wagon
broadbean weevil
C. P. R.
carpadelus
cell, concentration
Childeric III
Chlorophthalmidae
choreatic
combustion control
constant pressure
crockery
cryptographies
diet cola
Dihydroxyphenylglycol
disciplinary rule
diteirahedron
domed stadiums
Dyassic
esparse
extrovertedly
FBRNPS (fast breeder nuclear power station)
fernery
gastroblen-norrhea
Givetian Age
Graptoloidea
gregorino
Hall-effect gyrator (Hall gyrator)
haplodermatitis
hoatching
hyperchromicities
illustrated by
infrared milk analyzer
intermediatetype
inverted triode
java integrated networks
kinsperson
komme
law of damages
lepidotes
Leucas aspera
list manipulation
liveboards
lower-left-hand
lytta
macroeconomic forecasting
Madrid interband offered rate
marking tree
methoximol
microcomputer operating system
misdefinitions
misguided
missing release
morbid indication
naffnesses
Neo-Aramaic
net dry weight
neurotic discorder
oil bath air cleaner
packing of tube
picket airship
rag scrap
regulating station
rubber-like liquid
saltmarkets
slovo
sodium iodoacetate
sorosporium formosanum
special iron
stromal myosis
stubachite-serpentine
taffeta brocade
tag ... on
the machine of government
thermistor oscillator
three -toed woodpecker
topness
tracheal trunk
transinstitutionalizations
tuberculous spondylosis
turnover elevator
twin elements
unbeatability
unhigh
united states of americas
usurpers
vitex oil
week-end
weighting structure
wireless telegraphy
wood turnover elevator
yoder
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