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Dr Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict at the University of Oxford, and a Board Member of the Catholic Agency for Overseas Development (CAFOD).

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The latest research has put the price tag for the War on Terror at an exorbitant $ 4 - 6 trillion, more than any armed conflict in U.S. history.

Whether it's a mistake in armed conflict or in business, there are egos, lives and livelihoods at stake when decisions go awry.

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«Recent UN figures show that there were at least 14,500 grave violations against children in armed conflict last year, including recruitment, sexual violence and abductions.»

For example, the functional paralysis of a middle - aged man's arm expressed the immobilizing conflict between the unconscious desire and the fear of striking out in rage at a person on whom he felt passively de-pendent.

It's also a place where there's the potential for small scale regional conflict — political at this time — such as between China, Vietnam and Japan over the Spratley islands in the South China Sea and the known unknowns around political instability in nuclear - armed Pakistan and that nation's relationship to its nuclear - armed neighbour, India.

«He's not afraid of conflict or confrontation and at the same time he's going to put his arm around you.»

Dr Ruben Reike is a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow at the European University Institute, where he is part of the ERC - funded project: «The Individualisation of War: Reconfiguring the Morality, Law, and Politics of Armed Conflict».

As one analyst put it, «armed groups are very effective at «being» armed groups and rather poor when it comes to the process of engagement» (Program on Humanitarian Policy and Conflict Research, Harvard University, 2007).

But the Syrian government is deeply suspicious of international agencies and is determined to limit the presence of international NGOs like Medecins sans Frontieres, Oxfam, Care, Save the Children and the International Organisation of the Red Cross, who one would normally see operating en masse at this point in a non-international armed conflict.

Dr Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict and the author of Killing Civilians: Method, Madness and Morality in War.

At some points they had denied the existence of an armed conflict altogether.

[1] We looked at all armed conflicts that ended between 1990 and 2013.

Dr Nicola Horsburgh is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law, and Armed Conflict and Department of Politics and International Relations, Oxford.

At the University of Oxford Alumni Weekend, 17 September 2011, Dr Hugo Slim and Professor Jennifer Welsh, from the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict (ELAC), discussed the concept of the «Responsibility to Protect» or R2P in contemporary international relations, and its role in key cases such as Libya and post-election violence in Kenya.

Dr Hugo Slim is a Senior Research Fellow at the Oxford Institute of Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict where he is working on humanitarian ethics in war and disaster with 12 of the world's leading humanitarian agencies.

Speaking during the programme, the Executive Secretary of NHRC Mr. Tony Ojukwu said, the training programme was aimed at broadening and equipping the security personnel who were directly involved in the ongoing counter insurgency and counter terrorism operations in the North East with the fundamental principles of Human Rights as well as Rules of Engagement in line with the acceptable local and international laws and principles of arms conflicts.

They should not be looking at a nation where thousands are killed by armed conflict every year and declaring it safe.

(2) Members of other militias and members of other volunteer corps, including those of organized resistance movements, belonging to a Party to the conflict and operating in or outside their own territory, even if this territory is occupied, provided that such militias or volunteer corps, including such organized resistance movements, fulfil the following conditions: (a) that of being commanded by a person responsible for his subordinates; (b) that of having a fixed distinctive sign recognizable at a distance; (c) that of carrying arms openly; (d) that of conducting their operations in accordance with the laws and customs of war.

«This was the first study to detect the recent TB outbreak in Zimbabwe, and the first anywhere to suggest an association between rising TB incidence and national economic decline in the absence of armed conflict,» said Michael Silverman, assistant professor at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health and senior author of the study.

«We've seen rising temperatures, but there's been a decline in armed conflict,» says Idean Salehyan, a political scientist at the University of North Texas in Denton.

The massive destruction of cultural heritage during the Second World War prompted the adoption of the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property in the Event of Armed Conflict in 1954 at The Hague in the Netherlands.

When a plane carrying the Artemisian monarch is shot down, the blame is quickly directed at the island nation of Zipang, triggering armed conflict.

I'm convinced that there's already a latent melancholy in the picture, but armed with just a gloss of Camp David, the Israeli / Egyptian conflict, suddenly all of the picture's travails — being shut out of the Cairo film festival and, at the last minute, the Abu Dhabi fest as well — take on this terrible weight of irony and hopelessness.

Sexual Violence in Conflict: Report of the Secretary - General, at UN's General Assembly 67 Session Agenda Item 33 Prevention of Armed Conflict, New York, March 14, 2013, Vol A / 67/792 S / 2013/149, p. 12

Once developed, lethal autonomous weapons «will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend.»

In the Spratly Islands, a contested place at the West Philippine Sea can include artists from countries with contending claims to prevent armed conflict and destruction of lives and livelihood.

This experience exposed me to various challenges of sustaining education in armed conflict and I am using this year at Harvard to try and innovate on a solution for the same.

Noting the serious impact of armed conflict on children, who are at particular risk of abuse, exploitation, violence, and discrimination,

The 2013 Kraszna - Krausz book awards, also announced at the Sony world photography awards ceremony, had a clear winner — War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath by Anne Wilkes Tucker, Will Michels and Natalie Zelt.

The monograph includes a foreword by Hilary Roberts, the Head Curator of Photography at the Imperial War Museums in Britain as well as an essay by Natalie Zelt, the co-author and co-curator of, War / Photography: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, was recognized with two honors: in London, the exhibition catalogue WAR / PHOTOGRAPHY: Images of Armed Conflict and Its Aftermath won the «Best Photography Book Award» at the 2013 Kraszna - Krausz Book Awards and, in Austin, Glassell School of Art director Joseph Havel was appointed a State Artist by the Texas State Legislature.

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He works with arms recovered in 1992 at the end of the sixteen - year conflict that divided the region.

Warriors at rest, far from home but resonant of domestic textures, they are reminders that war extends beyond the battlefield into every facet of life, and that in armed conflicts, culture is just as contested as territory.

A total of 46 nations and 2.7 billion people are now at high risk of being overwhelmed by armed conflict and war because of climate change.

The G8 Africa Action Plan released at the 2002 G8 Summit endorsed the Kimberley Process and recognised the link between natural resource exploitation and armed conflict.

Remember: You can still go back and vote in all of the various polls today, and you can vote today on options to respond to armed conflict; we'll be finalizing the Slate readers» list at the end of the series.

At a time when Liberia and the international community have made considerable progress in fostering peace in Liberia, Global Witness (1) restates its urge that the Liberian government and international community scrupulously ensure that Liberia's logging industry is fully reformed, integrating transparency and accountability at all levels and ending the industry's ability to perpetuate armed conflicAt a time when Liberia and the international community have made considerable progress in fostering peace in Liberia, Global Witness (1) restates its urge that the Liberian government and international community scrupulously ensure that Liberia's logging industry is fully reformed, integrating transparency and accountability at all levels and ending the industry's ability to perpetuate armed conflicat all levels and ending the industry's ability to perpetuate armed conflict.

Since early 2011, what appears to have begun as expression of dissent and dissatisfaction at the Gaddafi regime has developed, from around the middle of February 2011, into an internal armed conflict.

As Michael Schmitt, the world's preeminent expert on cyber conflict and the law of war has written, to count as «armed attack,» an action must have at least been «intended to directly cause physical destruction or injury».

If developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and faster than humans can comprehend.

Several of the law panelists may have agreed with each other that autonomous weapons are «not illegal weapons prohibited under the laws of armed conflict,» but this was not a view shared by all participants at the conference.

Among many such effects: a growing group of legal scholars today urge that we reconsider the utility of the distinction (at the heart of IHL) between violence that counts as an «armed conflict» and violence that doesn't.

Hence, as compared to the ICJ's position, the NPR uses an arguably lower standard of «vital interests» and, at the same time, does not limit it to the situation of an actual armed conflict.

Once developed, they will permit armed conflict to be fought at a scale greater than ever, and at timescales faster than humans can comprehend.

The other conflict avoidant stance is loving your partner at arm's length.