Sentences with phrase «between global conflict»

But he added that conservatives also were bending the truth by insisting there was no relationship between global conflict and the impacts of warming.

Not exact matches

The reported feat has heightened global tensions and fears of nuclear conflict, particularly between the US and North Korea, but also with nearby nations such as China.

Treasury yields inched higher Tuesday as a global rally for assets perceived as risky suggested that fears over a trade conflict between China and the U.S. were easing following a speech by China's President Xi Jinping.

Amid global fears of an escalating trade dispute between the U.S. and China, President Donald Trump suggested that Beijing will ease trade barriers «because it is the right thing to do» and that the economic superpowers can settle the conflict that has rattled financial markets, consumers and businesses.

One can see recent standoffs in Geneva on so - called traditional values resolutions as manifestations of a conflict between two rival conceptions of human dignity: one, supported by most Western advocates, that focuses on individual autonomy; and the other, proposed by voices from the global East and South, that focuses on traditional understandings of human nature.

Her change of opinion took place sometime between the two global conflicts.

The recent conflicts between American technology companies and various governments suggest that many people believe global markets provide a more credible guarantee of personal security than sovereign nations.

Although in the past conflict has often arisen between economically interdependent nations (viz. the previous peak of global trade in 1914), the China - ASEAN relationship is one of fundamental interdependence of production, visible in the prevalence of international supply chaining in manufacturing processes, rather than solely trade and labour movement [i].

Together with the festering conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, the global fault lines between these Abrahamic8 religions are continuing threats to world peace and stability.

Scarcity of resources from the environment (clean air, water, food, energy, land etc.) leads to violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations.13 Neomalthusians have argued that global environmental change leads to scarcities of resources that could lead to societal collapse.

Real world contexts and problems — such as designing sustainable energy systems, bio-medical engineering, maintaining biodiversity in areas where conflicts arise between local and global needs — demand knowledge, concepts and skills from several disciplines.

In this way, we approach the teaching - learning process from the adjacent dialectic in the multidisciplinary issues that Global Education enables us to build and diffusion of the knowledge, which causes cognitive conflicts between the different educational actors and, consequently, meaningful and pragmatic learning about the various problems of the globalized world of the XXI century.

Consequently, we believe that Global Citizenship Education has the ability to act as seeds of social change (locally and globally), to create a cognitive conflict between the various educational actors and build a significant learning as an entrepreneurial fruits sustained in practice, as for example in the performance and participation of citizens in solving social problems.

Diaspora Involvement in Educational Development in Conflict - Affected Settings: Transnational innovations in provision of high quality education for marginalized children The study aims examines promising transnational educational practices and partnerships between Diasporas, Ministries of Education, donors, NGOs, and local communities in addressing the global challenge of providing quality education for children in conflict sConflict - Affected Settings: Transnational innovations in provision of high quality education for marginalized children The study aims examines promising transnational educational practices and partnerships between Diasporas, Ministries of Education, donors, NGOs, and local communities in addressing the global challenge of providing quality education for children in conflict sconflict settings.

C. M. Rubin's Global Education Report In May, I continued my conversations with thought leaders from China to New York who sketched out for me the conflicting overlaps between creativity, innovation, reform, and testing, and shared their efforts to create coalescence between them.

Exhibitions include Dos Mundos: Worlds of the Puerto Ricans 1973, Mira, Mira, Mira, Museum of the City of New York 1974, Ten Japanese Artists, 1975; Legacy of James Vanderzee, 1977; Sacred Artifacts: Objects of Devotion, 1982; Disinformation: The Manufacture of Consent, 1985; Repulsion: Aesthetics of the Grotesque, 1987; Foreign Affairs: Conflicts in the Global Village, 1988; Dia De Los Muertos, 1988; Prisoners of Image: Ethnic and Gender Stereotyping, 1989; Mon Reve: Haiti after the Duvaliers, 1989; Artists of Conscience, 1992; Peoples Choice: Komar & Melamid, 1994; Expansion Arts, I, II, III, 1995 - 1998; (Mickey) Mouse: An American Icon, 1998; The Artists as Patron, 1999; Honeymoon Series by Yoshio Itagaki, 2000; Between the Real and the Unreal: Recent works by Simen Johan, 2000, Genochoice an installation by Virgil Wong, 2000.

From the regional - specific to the global and even to the metaphysical realm, universal themes of chaos, control, excess and conflict come to the fore — whether between person to person, country to country, Man to Nature, or element to element.

From a global perspective, we are faced with daunting challenges as documented in World Resources, 1996 - 97: the accelerating confluence of population expansion, increased demand for energy, food, clean drinking water, adequate housing, the destructive environmental effects of pollution from fossil fuels and nuclear waste, plus the growing divergence between the haves and have - nots and the potential for ensuing conflicts.

Global Witness is an independent British - based non-governmental organisation which researches and campaigns on the links between natural resource exploitation, conflict and corruption.

For further information, please contact: Patrick Alley: [phone] + 44 792178889 7 Natalie Ashworth: + 44 796816037 7 Sofia Goinhas: [phone] (1) Global Witness is an investigative non-governmental organisation that focuses on the links between natural resource exploitation and conflict and was co-nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.

For more information on Liberia, see other Global Witness reports and briefing documents, available at www.globalwitness.org (3) «Logging Off» September 2002, Page 11, Taylor made — The Pivotal role of Liberia's Forests in Regional Conflict», September 2001, Page 15 (4) For more information on Global Witness's work on Liberia see: «An Architecture of Instability: How the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains uConflict», September 2001, Page 15 (4) For more information on Global Witness's work on Liberia see: «An Architecture of Instability: How the critical link between natural resources and conflict remains uconflict remains unbroken.

For Media enquiries contact: Natalie Ashworth: [phone] + 44 796816037 7 Notes to Editors: (1) David Clarke, Liberia denies links to Ivory Coast rebels,» Reuters, April 2003 (2) Global Witness is an investigative non-governmental organisation that focuses on the links between natural resource exploitation and conflict and was co-nominated for the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize.

Press Release Secretive Deloitte audit in Liberia raises allegations of irresponsible corporate behaviour and conflict of interest 28/11/2002 A secretive agreement signed between the government of Liberia and the auditing firm Deloitte & Touche (i) is drawing criticism from Global Witness and other international organisations.

I've often argued long and hard with skydragon - type climate sceptics myself, explaining that there's no essential conflict between accepting the core physics of the basic convective greenhouse effect and rejecting the forecasts of global climate doom.

``... and even tackling global warming and climate change, pose a conflict between cooperating, which is socially optimal and free - riding, which promotes individual self - interest.»

Email: [email protected]; website: www.globalwitness.org Notes to Editor: (1) Global Witness is a London based NGO that focuses on the links between the exploitation of natural resources, and the funding of conflict.

Global Witness is campaigning to break the link between Afghanistan's natural resources and the conflict.

http://www.globalwitness.org/campaigns/forests/liberia/ Notes for the Editor: (1) Global Witness is a British - based non-governmental organisation, which focuses on the links between natural resource exploitation and conflict.

A new Global Witness report, titled Logging Off: How the Liberian Timber industry fuels Liberia's humanitarian disaster and threatens Sierra Leone, exposes the direct links between Liberia's timber industry and the conflict.

In saying that IPCC reports issued over the past 20 years had «created an ever - broader informed consensus about the connection between human activities and global warming,» the Committee linked those reports to potential violent conflict and wars that could result should extreme climate change occur.

Global Witness campaigns to achieve real change by highlighting the links between the exploitation of natural resources, conflict and corruption.

Like ExxonMobil, Chevron also emphasizes potential conflicts rather than synergies between climate solutions and other societal goals: «As we work to address climate change, we must create solutions that balance environmental objectives with global economic growth and our aspirations for a better quality of life for people across the world.»

My most recent research interest is in exploring the potential conflict between human cognition and the physics of global climate change, which has led me into collaborative research in climate science and climate modeling.

It is available in Burmese and in English at: http://www.globalwitness.org/reports/index.php?section=burma For a hard copy version please respond to via email with name and address For further information, contact Global Witness» Burma team on [phone] - or [email protected] Editor's notes: (1) Global Witness focuses on the links between the exploitation of natural resources and the funding of conflict and corruption.

Faced with a perceived conflict between expanding global energy access and rapidly reducing greenhouse emissions to prevent climate change, many environmental groups and donor institutions have come to rely on small - scale, decentralized, renewable energy technologies that can not meet the energy demands of rapidly growing emerging economies and people struggling to escape extreme poverty.

The Global Bioenergy Partnership (GBEP) which released its comprehensive report on the current status of bioenergy today, says the conflict between growing crops for food versus biofuels is artificial and can be resolved if the United States, Europe and other rich countries drop protectionist policies and work with developing nations to increase the use of the eco-friendly fuels.

More on 1 % for the Planet, Conscious Consumerism, and Yvon Chouinard Hot Hot Santa Strips for Global Warming and 1 % for the Planet Video: Conscious Capitalism - Resolving the Conflict Between Capitalism and Innovation The TH Interview: Yvon Chouinard, founder of Patagonia (Part One) Yvon Chouinard Wins Environmental Good Guy Award Doing Well by Doing Good: Why Patagonia Makes a Profit, Naturally

Over the last 15 years, Global Witness has investigated the links between the lucrative trade in tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold and armed conflict in eastern Congo.

On the other hand, both Wintersteiger and eDate deal admirably with the conflict between the place - oriented rule of Article 5 (3) and the global nature of the internet.

Thus, they are global in nature, reliably rendering themselves as a guide for mediators to analyze the power dynamics at each level in society in which a conflict between actors might be observed.

On Wednesday, the evergreen buck dived versus the Japanese major currency amid a trade conflict between the United States and China, which could potentially damage the global economy...

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