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Oct 2004.
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| Summary/Abstract |
Japan seeks to play the role of a peace-maker in Aceh. This includes organising international conferences in Tokyo to facilitate peace and offering substantial aid to the combatants to cease hostilities. Japan and the Swiss-based Henri Dunant Centre (HDC) have a division of labour in Aceh. But Tokyo can offer what the HDC cannot: a multi-million dollar aid package and bringing together many governments and international organisations to support peace in Aceh. Tokyo will have to play a patient game by offering aid to the combatants and wait until they, utterly exhausted by the civil war, embrace peace.
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