Both the law makers and law breakers have too much invested in the conflict for either to lay down arms easily.
One of the things I emphasized to President Karzai, however, is, is that the incentives for the Taliban to lay down arms, or at least portions of the Taliban to lay down arms, and make peace with the Afghan government in part depends on our effectiveness in breaking their momentum militarily.
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And that is why we support an Afghan-led process of reconciliation with very clear conditions -- that any Taliban member who wants to lay down his arms, or her arms -- lay down his arms, primarily -- make clear that they support the Afghan constitution, the rights of women and minorities, and renounce any affiliation or support for al Qaeda, then they are obviously welcome in the reconciliation process.
In May, Guatemala's guerrillas became the last in the region to lay down their arms.
Embarking on a peace process, the paramilitaries needed an incentive to lay down their arms.
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It has even talked about an amnesty for those who are willing to lay down their arms.
Macedonian President Boris Trajkovski has proposed a partial amnesty to persuade the rebels to lay down their arms.
The first lesson is that you can't convince terrorists to lay down their arms simply by walking away.
For the first time, independent peace movements have emerged, calling on both sides to lay down their arms.
Ghazi said his followers were willing to lay down their arms, but on condition neither he nor they are arrested.
In his planning for peace, the President was flexible and generous, encouraging Southerners to lay down their arms and join speedily in reunion.
Even if Mr Bashir keeps his promises, he may find that he can not make the janjaweed obey his instructions to lay down their arms.
Ali Hashim, a Salaheddin provincial council member, said Friday that tribal leaders ordered their people to lay down their arms and let soldiers enter the city.
And in June, Congress passed the legal framework for eventual peace talks that would set out the kind of sentences rebels could expect if they agreed to lay down their arms.
The warfare subsided after al-Sadr told his followers Sunday to lay down their arms, but the prevailing tension in the region threatens to unravel the government efforts to bring about stability in Iraq.
On Wednesday the UN Security Council, which had been accused of inaction, called on the Tamil Tigers to lay down their arms and urged the Sri Lankan government to allow international aid agencies into areas of need.
His cause was peace not a bad cause, but Ford pursued it with his usual black-and-white view of the world. (Every question had only one possible point of view: his own.) In December 1915 he chartered a ship to Europe to persuade the belligerents to lay down their arms.
In the meantime, our Ambassador, General Eikenberry, is working every day, pushing the Afghan government to step up its efforts to tackle corruption, and devise a plan of reintegration for the portion of the Taliban that is ready to lay down its arms and join the government.
And that's why we have supported Afghan-led efforts towards reconciliation with the Taliban on the conditions that members of the Taliban who wish to reconcile lay down their arms, denounce al Qaeda and sever all ties with al Qaeda, and commit themselves to abiding by the Afghan constitution.
But the defence minister says the government will not negotiate until the rebels lay down their arms, which they are doubtless too nervous to do.
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