Sentences with phrase «armed conflict where»

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.

Not exact matches

Sen. Mike Lee, R - Utah, along with Sen. Bernie Sanders, I - Vt., and Sen. Chris Murphy, D - Conn., introduced a bill in February to withdraw U.S. armed forces from the Yemen conflict, where they have provided limited intelligence and refueling for warplanes.

The effort of the sword corresponds to armed conflict with enemies of the Islamic community in circumstances where believers are persecuted and their freedom curtailed.

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.

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».

Insufficient attention to where British arms exports have ended up has been blamed by MPs for their use against civilians in conflict zones.

Please visit the Oxford Institute for Ethics, Law and Armed Conflict website where you will find a Policy Brief on Implementing the «Responsibility to Protect».

Where it gets foggy these days is what is determined to be an «armed conflict».

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

In cases where armed conflicts boil slowly and the question of attacker and defender (both members of NATO) is less clear I guess that NATO might have a problem and needs to clarify its foundation.

To see it, just look up into a clear sky, to the no - man's - land of Earth orbit, where a conflict is unfolding that is an arms race in all but name.

Although droughts can lead to violence, such as in urban areas; this was found not to be the case for rural areas, where the majority of armed conflicts occurred where food crops were abundant.

This ensures the metals are highly sought after — and their extraction is a breeding ground for conflicts, such as in the Democratic Republic of the Congo where they fund armed conflicts.

This meticulously constructed armed conflict procedural jumps into the morally ambivalent battle lines between Denmark and Afghanistan, where commander Claus M. Pedersen (Pilou Asbæk) is stationed with his company.

Without exploring Lebanon's own sectarian violence, choosing sides, or justifying behavior — in fact, without naming the country where the film takes place — she presents a fairy - tale metaphor for the conflict, in which the men of the village are quick to arms and to finger - pointing when anything goes wrong, and the women are willing to make any compromise and to try any far - fetched, crack - brained idea to defuse or distract.

The Chinese arm of Nexus however has reached a critical breakthrough in the technology and that is where our conflict begins.

He's hired by a cruel Mexican governor (Pedro Armendáriz) to carry out an arms deal that takes him to Texas, where his refusal to help hunt Apaches puts him in conflict with a U.S. Army major (Gary Merrill)-- and into the orbit of the major's unhappy wife (Julie London).

From de Colombian experience, where the regional realities are strongly affected by armed conflict, forced displacement and community deconstruction, the impacts of this methodology has been proven to be multidimensional, transcending the economic character, and empowering participants to be protagonists of their own development model.

Total Annihilation takes place in the distance future where two robotic races, ARM and Core, are locked in an endless, eternal conflict that has spanned countless years and planets, consuming the galaxy in war.

The hoses pass through the sheet onto the reverse side where there is another complicated system of hoses, both sides alluding to the interconnected intricacy of the armed conflict in Colombia.

Africa has faced drought, famine and disease since before Biblical times, and armed conflict is far more likely where a lack of electricity perpetuates poverty, scarcity and dashed hopes.

Amnesty International Ireland's executive director Colm O'Gorman cautioned that the use of fully autonomous weapons «would result in unlawful killings and injuries both in situations of armed conflict, where both international humanitarian law and international human rights law apply, and in law enforcement operations, where international human rights law applies.»