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Of course, we have the additional issue of calming down the causes that may have generated the conflict.

The understandings previously reached at Sharm el Sheikh were an encouraging beginning for a return to the negotiating table and for calming conditions on the ground.

The next war, terrorist attack, or failed peace initiative may lurk just around the corner. Compared to the politics of this region, a rollercoaster ride is downright calming.

Calming a volatile situation may mean not publicly denouncing behavior that cries out for condemnation. Making the right call is more difficult in the real world than in a philosophy classroom.

Moreover, important figures in or close to the ruling Justice and Development Party expressed their willingness to hold a dialogue with the protesters. President Abdullah Gül, in particular, played a calming, statesmanlike role.

The military component also continued to support the efforts of the Timorese security agencies to maintain security and stability, while maintaining situation awareness and providing a calming presence through frequent patrols in the border areas.

The Military Liaison Group also continued to support the efforts of the Timorese armed forces in maintaining stability in the region, by assisting with situational awareness and providing a calming presence through frequent patrols in the border areas.

An adequate firewall and a European commitment to structural reform would go far toward calming markets and reducing the risks to any Chinese contribution. In other words, any assistance that China provides must be throwing good money after good potential results.

Europe s leaders are now contemplating what to do, and their next move will have fateful consequences, either calming the markets or driving them to new extremes. All agree that Greece needs an orderly restructuring, because a disorderly default could cause a eurozone meltdown.

Such measures are likely to boost Europe s medium term growth prospects. While they would most likely have no immediate calming effect on today s panic stricken financial markets, they are far superior to watching with folded hands as Europe descends into a financial abyss.

While Turkey s lurch into the fray in 2010 may have been unwelcome, its interest in calming a situation involving an immediate neighbor is understandable. More problematically, the Sunni Arab states should also give more serious thought to addressing the situation, and should seek to reconcile their private and public postures.

Colombia s new president, Juan Manuel Santos, showed genuine courage in cutting short a march to war with Venezuela and calming down the entire Bolivarian axis (Venezuela, Ecuador, and Bolivia) by reviving the region s diplomatic channels. His was a truly revolutionary shift from the politics of saber rattling to the hard work of establishing regional peace.

Though the German government does not officially support quantitative easing, it should be grateful to the ECB for calming financial markets. Now Germany can take a tough stance on the new Greek government's demands for a large scale debt write off and an end to austerity, without fearing the kind of financial market turbulence that in 2012 left the eurozone with little choice but to bail out Greece.

ISTANBUL When European Central Bank President Mario Draghi announced in late July that the ECB would do whatever it takes to prevent so called re denomination risk (the threat that some countries might be forced to give up the euro and reintroduce their own currencies), Spanish and Italian sovereign bond yields fell immediately. Then, in early September, the ECB s Council of Governors endorsed Draghi s vow, further calming markets.

With the US still by far the largest economy in the world and the anchor of the international monetary system, its well being has huge implications everywhere. So, not surprisingly, the US recovery has helped to set a calming and constructive tone and at a critical juncture, given that Europe is still struggling with a debt crisis on the eurozone periphery, and emerging economies are going through a cyclical slowdown.