177. In addition to galvanizing interest and opinion, multilateral agreements can also serve as a focal point for action.

In this dramatically expanded ideal of a liberal arts education where the continuum of thought and action is its life's blood, knowledge honed outside the academy becomes essential.

limbs to droop, and so sharpening their tops, had changed the pines into fir trees wading to the tops of the highest hills when the show was nearly two feet deep on a level, and shaking down another snow storm on my head at every step or sometimes creeping and floundering thither on my hands and knees, when the hunters had gone into winter quarters.

The first academic contribution to conflict prevention is therefore to offer, sharpen and sustain the language that allows all of us, as the human family, to understand the conflicts in which we live, the ones that are coming and the ones we fail to recognize.

The review stresses the importance of disaster risk reduction being underpinned by a more pro active approach to informing, motivating and involving people in all aspects of disaster risk reduction in their own local communities.

We hope that this non paper will help people give more thought to the prevention of an arms race in outer space and provide food for thought in our negotiation of a relevant future legal instrument in the CD.

We look forward to a constructive debate among all Member States with a view to strengthening the effectiveness of the Security Council and its legitimacy in international affairs, to reinforcing Member States apos confidence in its decision making process and making it more representative of the membership of the United Nations.

Recognizing the need to clear up without delay those exceptionally important acts of violence whose characteristics and impact, and the social unrest to which they gave rise, urgently require that the complete truth be made known and that the resolve and means to establish the truth be strengthened