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	Christmas truce - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The "Christmas truce" is a term used to describe the brief unofficial cessation of hostilities that occurred between German and British troops stationed on the Western Front of World War I during Christmas 1914.
		The truce began on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, during World War I, when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium, for Christmas.
		The truce is also depicted in the video for Sir Paul McCartney's 1983 hit song Pipes of Peace, and was referred to in an episode of the science fiction TV drama, Space: Above and Beyond.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Christmas_truce (1156 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Truce of God
		The Truce of God is a temporary suspension of hostilities, as distinct from the Peace of God which is perpetual.
		It arose amid the anarchy of feudalism as a remedy for the powerlessness of lay authorities to enforce respect for the public peace.
		The Truce soon spread from France to Italy and Germany; the oecumenical council of 1179 extended the institution to the whole Church by Canon xxi, "De treugis servandis", which was inserted in the collection of canon law (Decretal of Gregory IX, I, tit., "De treuga et pace").
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/15068a.htm (456 words)

	First World War.com - Feature Articles - The Christmas Truce
		On the eve of the Truce, the British Army (still a relatively small presence on the Western Front) was manning a stretch of the line running south from the infamous Ypres salient for 27 miles to the La Bassee Canal.
		Incidents of temporary truces and outright fraternisation were more common at this stage in the war than many people today realise – even units that had just taken part in a series of futile and costly assaults, were still willing to talk and come to arrangements with their opponents.
		With the Truce in full swing up and down the line there were a number of recorded games of soccer, although these were really just 'kick-abouts' rather than a structured match.
	www.firstworldwar.com /features/christmastruce.htm (2388 words)

	AllRefer.com - truce of God (Ancient History, Middle Ages And Feudalism) - Encyclopedia
		truce of God, in the Middle Ages, an attempt by the Catholic church to limit private warfare between feudal lords.
		The truce spread from France to Germany, Italy, Flanders, and Spain, and from 1123, it was backed by the threat of excommunication.
		The increasing power of kings (the "peace of kings") and the subsequent rise of strong national governments rendered the truce of God unnecessary and ineffective for enforcing internal peace.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/T/truceGod.html (262 words)

	The Christmas Truce 1914-1915
		Below is the account of the truce in the Sailly - Armentiers sector manned by George Anderson, George Gordon, William Milne, Alexander Pirie and their comrades of 6th Btn, The Gordon Highlanders.
		The truce of God had been called, and the rest of Christmas Day was filled with peace and goodwill.
		On their approach the "truce" seemed to vanish, and trench routine was normal.
	www.kinnethmont.co.uk /1914-1918_files/xmas-truce.htm (1579 words)

	AthensNews onLine SEARCH
		Lambrinidis is director of the Olympic International Truce Centre, formed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) nine months ago and headquartered in Athens.
		The truce movement was proposed by Greek Foreign Minister George Papandreou during the Nagano Winter Games in Japan three years ago.
		The movement hopes to establish honorary truce boards in all major countries, especially those where conflict exists, and later plans to appoint international celebrities as truce ambassadors.
	www.athensnews.gr /athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12909&m=A07&aa=2&eidos=S (664 words)

	truce of God - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		TRUCE OF GOD [truce of God] in the Middle Ages, an attempt by the Catholic church to limit private warfare between feudal lords.
		The truce of God was proposed (AD 958) by Pope John XV and was first applied in 1027.
		The truce of God: ninety years ago, Christian soldiers separated by war reached out to each other to celebrate their Lord's birth.(History--Faith In Action)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/t1/truceG1od.asp (371 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Egypt \| What truce?
		But while the venue remained unknown to anyone but the hosts and participants, it was clear, from both leaks and statements by some of the participants, that Egypt meant to convince the factions to accept a unilateral cease-fire proposal.
		But while he did confirm his group's refusal to join the PLO "because of a number of difficulties", Hamdan also said there was a consensus about the need for "a unified political decision for the Palestinian people represented by its larger leadership".
		The meeting might not have "failed" in the eyes of its participants, but the truce initiative that was proposed has been called off for now.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/623/eg4.htm (1037 words)

	truce interview (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The call for the Olympic Truce was endorsed by the UN General Assembly and reintroduced by the IOC during the Olympic Winter Games in Lillehammer.
		Through the Olympic Truce, the Olympic Movement calls for a break in the cycle of violence, for the creation of a window of opportunity for peace, through a unique instrument that is exactly linked to the Olympic ideals.
		Truce is not a panacea, nor is it utopia.
	www.olympictruce.org /html/news_story_2.html?print=1 (918 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Holidays (Christmas Truce)
		The spontaneous truce (which included French and Belgian troops in some sectors) was largely over by New Year's Day, however.
		However much the momentary peace of 1914 evidenced the desire of the combatants to live in amity with one another, it was doomed from the start by the realities beyond the trenches.
		A celebration of the human spirit, the Christmas Truce remains a moving manifestation of the absurdities of war.
	www.snopes.com /holidays/christmas/truce.asp (973 words)

	The Legends and Traditions of the Great War: The Christmas Truce of 1914
		This was a signal for more Boche anatomy to be disclosed, and this was replied to by all our Alfs and Bills, until, in less time than it takes to tell, half a dozen or so of each of the belligerents were outside the trenches, and were advancing towards each other in no-man's land.
		There is no evidence that the truce extended to the French front, and this is understandable since they had started a major counterattack in the Champagne on December 20th.
		Finally, if the Christmas Truce had any effect on the participants or the eventual course of the war, it was negligible.
	www.worldwar1.com /heritage/xmast.htm (804 words)

	Middle East Online
		A month after it was declared, the Palestinian militant groups' truce is as fragile as ever, equally threatened by Israel's failure to press on with the peace roadmap and the Palestinian Authority's attempts to implement it.
		Caught in the middle on that equation, the truce declared by four major militant groups on June 29 is coming under huge strain almost daily.
		In an editorial entitled "Hudna intoxication", the Haaretz newspaper explained Monday that the truce, however fragile it was, was giving all sides time to sound each other out, predicting it would survive further hitches and be extended after it expires on September 29.
	www.middle-east-online.com /english/?id=6643 (638 words)

	Definition of Christmas truce
		The so-called "Christmas truce" began on Christmas Eve, December 24, 1914, during World War I, when German troops began decorating the area around their trenches in the region of Ypres, Belgium for Christmas.
		The truce spread to other areas of the lines, and there is a perhaps apocryphal story of a football match between the opposing forces, which ended when the ball struck a strand of barbed wire and deflated.
		The truce is also depicted in the video for Sir Paul McCartney's 1983 hit song Pipes of Peace.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Christmas_truce (557 words)

	CAMERA: The Hamas "Truce" Offer: Genuine or Fake?
		The truce period is to be used to change the balance of forces.
		The truce has been known since then as the "Treaty of Hudaybiyah," after the site near the Quraysh city of Mecca where it was negotiated.
		If reconciliation means a truce and a cessation of fighting for a specified period of time, Islam allows the imam [leader] of the Muslims to undertake such a reconciliation if he believes that the enemy is strong and the Muslims are weak and need time to prepare and buildup.
	www.camera.org /index.asp?x_context=8&x_nameinnews=87&x_article=65 (1379 words)

	Islamic group calls for truce in Algeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The group is thought to be a mix of Muslim militants, despairing youths and common bandits.
		In addition, the military-backed government's full support of the truce could spur further violence from hard-liners opposed to national reconciliation.
		The truce call reflects "a wise position, even if late in coming, which risks being altered or short-circuited by those who don't want Algeria to mend its wounds and find peace," El Moudjahid said.
	www.chron.com /content/chronicle/world/97/09/24/algeria.html (762 words)

	History: Stanley Weintraub on the 1914 Christmas Truce on NRO Weekend
		In part the truce came about as brief truces in earlier wars occurred — as a respite to bury the dead.
		There was never a complete truce into New Year's Day, when the arrangements finally fell apart, but even the revengeful French (for the most part) participated.
		As one later songwriter put it, in "Christmas in the Trenches," via his narrator, a private from Liverpool, "On both ends of the rifle we're the same." They regretted having to fire at each other again, but they were under military discipline and returned to it.
	www.nationalreview.com /weekend/history/history-weintraub122201.shtml (1020 words)

	Peace Poles at the 2002 Winter Olympics
		It is a reinstitution of the ancient Olympic Truce.
		The modern-day Olympic Truce, passed in a Resolution at the United Nations before each Olympics, is a reinstitution of the tradition of the Olympic Truce in ancient Greece.
		The Olympic Truce attempts to build upon the friendship, solidarity, and cooperation between nations that are at the heart of the true Olympic spirit.
	www.worldpeace.org /olympics.html (470 words)

	The Olympic Truce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The Olympic Truce is a performance of all people and as such it aims at emphasizing the significance of respecting peaceful co-existence.
		The Truce is an indispensable constituent of the Olympic Tradition.
		The Olympic Truce Statement initiative was officially announced during the flame-lighting Ceremony for the XIX Olympic Winter Games on November 19, 2001 in Olympia.
	www.eu2003.gr /en/articles/2002/12/16/1231 (870 words)

	Definition of Truce from dictionary.net
		trewes, triwes, treowes, pl. of trewe a truce, properly, pledge of fidelity, truth, AS.
		Flag of truce (Mil.), a white flag carried or exhibited by one of the hostile parties, during the flying of which hostilities are suspended.
		Truce of God, a suspension of arms promulgated by the church, which occasionally took place in the Middle Ages, putting a stop to private hostilities at or within certain periods.
	www.dictionary.net /truce (131 words)

	Christmas Truce 1914 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Bruce Bairnsfather, the war cartoonist who penned the "Old Bill" sketches and who observed the Christmas truce first hand, wrote soon after the event: "There was not an atom of hate that day, and yet, on our side, not for a moment was the will to war and the will to beat them relaxed.
		The scale of the 1914 truce, however, far exceeded the localised respites of previous wars.
		Official reaction to the truce was mostly predictable.
	www.thesoutherncross.co.za /features/christmas_truce_1914.htm (1249 words)

	Islam Online- News Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		For Randa Hammas, a worker in the private sector, the truce is "an opportunity for Hamas and other Palestinian factions to take breath and reorder their internal affairs," after the latest Israeli wave of assassinations.
		"The truce is a conspiracy to end to the Palestinian Intifada against Israeli occupation, given the current developments on the international scene after the fall of Baghdad," he added.
		"The truce is just an ink on paper, as the Israeli government would not comply with it," said the wife of Wael Bassouni, whose house in Beit Hanoun was flattened by Israeli bulldozers.
	www.islam-online.net /English/News/2003-06/30/article06.shtml (735 words)

	The Olympic truce
		A truce (in Greek, ekecheiria, which literally means "holding of hands") was announced before and during each of the Olympic festivals, to allow visitors to travel safely to Olympia.
		During the truce, wars were suspended, armies were prohibited from entering Elis or threatening the Games, and legal disputes and the carrying out of death penalties were forbidden.
		The Olympic truce was faithfully observed, for the most part, although the historian Thucydides recounts that the Lacedaemonians were banned from participating in the Games, after they attacked a fortress in Lepreum, a town in Elis, during the truce.
	www.perseus.tufts.edu /Olympics/truce.html (414 words)

	UNESCO \| Education - The Olympic Truce
		In ancient Greece, the Olympic Truce lasted from the seventh day prior to the opening of the Olympic Games to the seventh day following their closing, and throughout the duration of the Games.
		The idea of the Olympic Truce is therefore based upon the belief that athletics and Olympic ideals should contribute to peaceful co-existence.
		The Olympic Games and the Olympic Truce or "Ekeheiria" (meaning the ceasing of hostilities during the duration of the Games) are closely linked.
	portal.unesco.org /education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=33270&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html (255 words)

	CAMERA: The Hamas "Truce" Offer: Genuine or Fake?
		It is impermissible for Muslims to stop jihad as long as an Islamic territory is occupied, only in [ie except for] cases of truce with the enemy and until a sufficient force for liberation is gathered.
		That is, while they are not against a tactical, temporary truce, their attacks will cease permanently only when Israel ceases to exist.
		Despite this history of promoting and inciting violence, and of empty truce proposals which are denied as quickly as they are offered, many media outlets continue to portray Hamas leader Sheikh Yasin as a moderate willing to live in peace with Israel.
	www.camera.org /index.asp?x_context=7&x_issue=20&x_article=65 (1379 words)

	Greek News - Olympic Truce Initiative Launched (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		Mr Papandreou explained that this ancient truce, the longest peace-accord in history allowed athletes participating in the Games, as well as thousands of pilgrims and spectators, to attend and participate in these Games in peace and then, return home in safety and security.
		Foreign Minister Papandreou said the Olympic Truce could not make all the world problems disappear, like a magic wand, but by bringing people together across borders and beliefs, regardless of race or creed, it can open the chance for greater human understanding and one we hope for long, lasting peace.
		She finally explained that Olympic Truce can serve as a tool for human development and support the UN in achieving its own objectives and the Millenium goals.
	www.greeknewsonline.com /modules.php?name=News&file=print&sid=472 (795 words)

	Can Gangs Declare a Truce among Themselves
		The article, “Violence Decreases with Gang Truce,” by Paul Cotton was based on a truce between the area’s two main groups, the Crips and Bloods.
		This is just to show how the truce can continue with the help of the city and what gang members expect to be done.
		The article titled, “The Gang Truce: A Movement for Social Injustice,” by Nancy Stein was based on what efforts and actions were taken or made to continue the truce.
	www.valdosta.edu /~anlee/Can%20Gangs%20Declare%20a%20Truce%20among%20Themselves.htm (1369 words)

	Osama offers truce to Europe: Most states reject proposal -DAWN - Top Stories; 16 April, 2004
		The voice on the tape, which a CIA official said is "likely" that of Osama, also said the March 11 train bombings in Madrid, which killed 191 people, were retaliation for Spain's role in Iraq, Afghanistan and with the Palestinians.
		"The announcement of the truce starts with the withdrawal of the last soldier from our land and the door is open for three months from the date of the announcement of this statement.
		"Whoever rejects this truce and wants war, we are its (war's) sons and whoever wants this truce, here we bring it." Security analysts said Osama was manoeuvring to split the US-led alliance and scare wavering members out of Iraq.
	www.dawn.com /2004/04/16/top10.htm (713 words)

	Today's Home News
		The Olympic Truce Paviliion was inaugurated on Saturday at a special event held at Zappion Hall in the presence of Prime Minister Costas Karamanlis, IOC President Jacques Rogge, and numerous heads of state, IOC members and veteran athletes.
		Both Rogge and George Papandreou, President of the Panhellenic Socialist Movement (PASOK) and Vice President of the Olympic Truce Foundation spoke of the significance of the symbolism of the Olympic Truce.
		All attendees signed the Declaration of the Olympic Truce as well as a cardboard wall, which at the end of the Athens Games will be given to Beijing, the host of the 2008 Olympic Games.
	www.ana.gr /anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=1965701&maindocimg=1965630&service=6 (214 words)

	Οlympic Truce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
		The significance of the effort concealed behind the Olympic Truce is the fact that it combines the strength of an Olympic Movement, the credibility of the athletic movement and the enthusiasm of the younger generation.
		In ancient Greece, throughout the duration of the Olympic Truce, from the seventh day prior to the opening of the Games to the seventh day following their closing, conflicts ceased, allowing athletes, artists and spectators to travel to Olympia, participate in the Olympic Games and return to their homelands in safety.
		The actions of the Center aim at preserving the Olympic Truce, providing humanitarian support to the local communities that suffer due to violent conflicts, determining conditions of a dialog between the belligerent parties following the implementation of the Truce, and at continuously promoting an international culture of peace.
	www.eu2003.gr /en/cat/49 (870 words)

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