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we cannot allow a return to a familiar and unstable status quo which repeatedly increases violence and animosity while rendering a final resolution of the conflict impossible.

I am pleased to yield to our newest Member of Congress, Congressman Chris Jacobs.

I urge this Subcommittee to continue its longstanding support for critical people-to-people and peacebuilding programming.

MEPPA offers the one thing that has always stood between proven civil society initiatives and widespread change: the promise of sufficient peacebuilding resources.