Word: distrust
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Native American short story called “The Return.” It’s about a man who leaves his village for years, only to return and find that the warmth and sharing and openness of his old home has been replaced with jealousy, greed and distrust. In desperation, he wanders the town shouting and asking what has happened to his village. But the people do not hear him. They dismiss him as a crazy old man; children taunt...
...keep the M.I.L.F. off its list of terrorist organizations. Murad is now the man her government must deal with, and he says he's "hopeful but not too optimistic." He wants the government to adopt "a new formula" that will break the cycle of failed negotiations and mutual distrust between the two sides. A similar peace accord with the oldest Islamic separatist group in the Philippines, the Moro National Liberation Front (M.N.L.F.), was signed in 1996, and that group was given administration of much of Mindanao and a healthy budget. But the M.I.L.F.'s refusal to go along kept peace...
Stone calls the Riverside agreement a “remarkable, positive moment” but says it takes time to move beyond decades of distrust...
...This deal goes a long way toward the beginning of much different relationship, but it would be unrealistic to expect [the distrust] to be all gone,” he says...
...There is an opportunity here for Harvard to begin to melt that distrust, and obviously some distrust has melted or we would never have had the agreement,” Bloomstein says of the Agassiz deal. “It took an enormous leap of faith by the community to sign this agreement...