Sentences with phrase «civil conflict in»

It has been predicted that the effects of climate change will lead directly to civil conflict in Nigeria.

In some ways, I thought, this was not prediction but description: This decade, almost 5 million people have already fled a drought - triggered (and climate - addled) civil conflict in the Mediterranean world.

Nature study finds statistical relationship between El Nino & patterns of civil conflict in tropics: j.mp / NinoCivil

Turning her attention both towards the struggles within her own homeland, which has had the longest - lasting civil conflict in the Western Hemisphere, as well as to political turmoil internationally, she addresses the persistent issues of colonialism, racism, and social injustice, and the need to mourn the deaths that follow in their wake.

Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau, and Central African Republic succumbed to civil conflict in the 1990's because of electoral - related factors» (2010:2).

The former international development reversed the cut to Rwanda on his last week in the job, despite allegations over its human rights record and involvement in a civil conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

«Climate change both threatens [Department of Defense] assets globally and appears to enhance the risk of civil conflict in conflict - prone countries,» Dr. Robert Kopp, a professor in the department of Earth and planetary sciences at Rutgers University and associate director of the Rutgers Energy Institute, told Business Insider.

Agricultural economist Marshall Burke and his colleagues conducted a meta analysis of 60 previous studies that looked at climatic events and their link to human conflict, including the fall of the Mayan Empire, civil conflicts in Africa, ethnic clashes in India, road rage in the U.S. and even the type of pitches thrown during Major League Baseball games when temperatures rise.

Not exact matches

Yet Saudi Arabia is not without its critics, who lament its poor record on human rights, draconian executions of political prisoners and military intervention in the civil war in Yemen, a conflict that has caused a humanitarian disaster in the country and one which is seen as a proxy war between the kingdom and its regional rival, Iran.

Trump's declaration came as Moscow, which is backing Syria in its long civil conflict, has denounced the bombing campaign with undisguised contempt.

De Beers spokesman Andrew Coxon estimated the value of conflict diamonds produced from three African states involved in civil war at more than US$ 255 million.

The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

«The conflicts over pipelines now have in some way been inspired by Clayoquot Sound, and if there's ever a time when one of the two big pipeline proposals in BC... get approved, I think you'll see a civil disobedience campaign that will dwarf the one that occurred in Clayoquot Sound.»

In civil wars with multiple factions, plucking criminals from one faction for prosecution may well raise cries of injustice from other factions and propel further conflict.

He argued that the conflict was basically civil in nature — neither side could claim to be representing God.

Madison's implicit assumption, and that of the entire tradition of religious toleration until the last few decades, however, was that religious diversity and conflict would involve competing sects that differ on some important questions of doctrine and practice but nonetheless share in common a basic Judeo - Christian orientation that is also, in very broad terms, our society's implicit civil religion.

How many of these conflicts were religious in nature: WWI - no WW II — no Spanish civil war — no Korean war — No Vietnam war no Chinese civil war — no Russian Civil War no 1st gulf war no Bosnia — significant religious aspect The endless civil wars in Africa — some of them Afghanistan / iraq wars — started my islamic fundamentalcivil war — no Korean war — No Vietnam war no Chinese civil war — no Russian Civil War no 1st gulf war no Bosnia — significant religious aspect The endless civil wars in Africa — some of them Afghanistan / iraq wars — started my islamic fundamentalcivil war — no Russian Civil War no 1st gulf war no Bosnia — significant religious aspect The endless civil wars in Africa — some of them Afghanistan / iraq wars — started my islamic fundamentalCivil War no 1st gulf war no Bosnia — significant religious aspect The endless civil wars in Africa — some of them Afghanistan / iraq wars — started my islamic fundamentalcivil wars in Africa — some of them Afghanistan / iraq wars — started my islamic fundamentalists.

Much civil disobedience today, which may look in part to Gandhi for its inspiration, lacks this concern for the conversion of the opponent and even when it is successful creates the potential for future conflict.

Contemporary warfare has in fact taken the form of local conflicts, more often than not civil wars, in which no great alliances of nations are involved; these have been wars fought for reasons based in local rivalries, typically inflamed by historical animosities, ethnic disparity, or religious difference, rather than for reasons of global Realpolitik; they have been fought not with nuclear weapons (or, indeed, other types of weapons of mass - destructive capability) or the latest in military technology, but instead with conventional weaponry, often of old design, and often limited to rifles, knives, grenades, and light, crew - served weapons which individual soldiers can carry on their persons.

Home conditions become difficult: many mothers have to bring up children, as single parents due to divorce, labour migration and deaths in civil conflict.

The fact that the ethnic conflict in Sri Lanka coincides with the liberalization of the economy and the strengthening of the SAP measures leaves room for questioning whether the civil war is not partly the result of the SAP itself.

By the same token, conflict between rival groups within a society may be intensified by differences in their net reproduction rates; such differences may have implications for the tenor of civil life or the composition and character of the national directorate, factors that may play a decisive role in determining the climate for development.

They include the «chilling effects» of libel suits, the perennial conflicts between property and access, the three out of four publishers who intervene in news decisions affecting their local markets, the advertisers» freedom to move their money to where their interests are, industry self - regulation in broadcasting and advertising, the backlash against conveying under duress (as in a hostage crisis) points of view that are never aired as directly without duress, the flareups of book banning and censorship of textbooks, the rout of the civil rights movement, the retreat from principles of fairness and equality (even where never implemented), the attack on scientific and humane teaching, the threat of self - appointed media watchdogs to also spy on teachers in the classroom, and the general vigor of ancient orthodoxies masquarading as neo-this and neo-that.

The humanitarian group Doctors of the World have created a line of Christmas cards to raise awareness about conflicts in the Middle East (like the Syrian civil war) and raise money for the group that provides healthcare to vulnerable communities around the world.

They've stuck their noses in to virtually every Middle Eastern conflict in the last 70 years, including he Israeli War of Independence, Suez War, Iraqi Army Revolt, Lebanese Civil War, Mosul Revolt, Kirkuk violence, Kurdish Revolt, North Yemen Civil War, Dhofar Rebellion, Six - Day War, The War of Attrition, Jordanian Civil War, Yom Kippur War, Egyptian - Libyan Border War, Intra-Iraqi Kurdish warfare, Iraqi Shia unrest in Karbala, Yemeni War, «The Tanker War», Osiraq Reactor Raid, Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, South Yemen Civil War, 2 Intifadas, Sa «dah Insurgency, and the Gaza War.

The humanitarian group Doctors of the World have created a line of Christmas cards to raise awareness about conflicts in the Middle East (like the Syrian civil war) and raise...

«There is genocide again in Europe [No there isn't, unless one debases the term to mean perennial ethnic and religious conflicts]; there is economic inequality at home [There always will be; the question is whether there is greater economic opportunity]; civil rights are not assured for all Americans [Sullivan's particular campaign is for same - sex marriage]; civil liberties have had a terrible decade [I'm not sure what he means; perhaps new and intrusive antiterrorist laws in the Clinton era]; the racial question remains and festers [Undoubtedly true, although it is currently festering below fever level].»

In this struggle, the major conflict is with the unchecked individualism of civil society, or the «system of needs,» both real and imaginary.17 This dialectical process has in Hegel's modern world surpassed the stage of revolution, which in the shape of the French Revolution was itself a necessary moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurreIn this struggle, the major conflict is with the unchecked individualism of civil society, or the «system of needs,» both real and imaginary.17 This dialectical process has in Hegel's modern world surpassed the stage of revolution, which in the shape of the French Revolution was itself a necessary moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurrein Hegel's modern world surpassed the stage of revolution, which in the shape of the French Revolution was itself a necessary moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurrein the shape of the French Revolution was itself a necessary moment in the process by which the emergence of the state occurrein the process by which the emergence of the state occurred.

«If we unwind civil and religious marriage as a way to solve the conflict in legal and religious understandings, we will have reduced that couple to mere cohabitants, with crappy remedies if the couple breaks up,» she said.

This conflict often operates in the alcoholic's marital relationship, where he will marry a dominant, mothering woman (who protects him to an absurd degree) and then so resent the dependency as to turn the marriage into a civil war.

How about the never ending Israeli / Palestine conflict (pick any war ara - isralie, six day, lebanon, gaza), ethiopian / somalian absynnian - adal war, the lebanese civil war, the nigerian conflict still going on, the darfur conflict, just to name a few in the past 50 years.

The conflict between the Myanmar government and the Karen and other ethnic groups such as the Karenni, Mon and Shan is considered by many analysts to be the longest - running civil war in the world.

In 1640 conflict arose between Charles and Parliament which came to a climax in civil waIn 1640 conflict arose between Charles and Parliament which came to a climax in civil wain civil war.

Among them were pantheism and the positions that human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood and good and evil; that Christian faith contradicts reason; that Christ is a myth; that philosophy must be treated without reference to supernatural revelation; that every man is free to embrace the religion which, guided by the light of reason, he believes to be true; that Protestantism is another form of the Christian religion in which it is possible to be as pleasing to God as in the Catholic Church; that the civil power can determine the limits within which the Catholic Church may exercise authority; that Roman Pontiffs and Ecumenical Councils have erred in defining matters of faith and morals; that the Church does not have direct or indirect temporal power or the right to invoke force; that in a conflict between Church and State the civil law should prevail; that the civil power has the right to appoint and depose bishops; that the entire direction of public schools in which the youth of Christian states are educated must be by the civil power; that the Church should be separated from the State and the State from the Church; that moral laws do not need divine sanction; that it is permissible to rebel against legitimate princes; that a civil contract may among Christians constitute true marriage; that the Catholic religion should no longer be the religion of the State to the exclusion of all other forms of worship; and «that the Roman Pontiff can and should reconcile himself to and agree with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.»

CAFOD said it's supporting local civil society in Sri Lanka who are strengthening local communities» understanding of peace and reconciliation, «building their ability to resolve local conflicts peacefully, and resist falling prey to manipulation».

There is the «conflict trap,» in which countries are destroyed, economically, by civil wars and / or genocides.

Deciding that it was best to avoid the conflict of the Civil War, the Avery family and the newly - wedded McIlhennys settled in at the Avery sugar plantation on Petit Anse Island, located 140 miles west of New Orleans.

After four years with us Arlie was drafted to TIME»S news bureau, first serving in Chicago and then Atlanta, where his territory was the South, and his assignments, for the most part, were on civil rights conflicts.

Kim has established a full time mediation practice in the areas of mortgage foreclosure, civil conflicts, contract / / business disputes, Homeowner Assn. issues, guardianship and elder care disputes.

Throughout the two - day event, re-enactors will mingle with the crowd and remain in character to replicate the era and the tension of the Civil War conflict, said Cynthia Lamb, marketing communications manager for Naper Settlement.

In countries that have experienced civil conflict and ethnic clashes, voters are unlikely to simply believe what politicians tell them.

In other words, I was frustrated with the headlines always being about conflict, civil war and democratic breakdown in places like Cote d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of CongIn other words, I was frustrated with the headlines always being about conflict, civil war and democratic breakdown in places like Cote d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of Congin places like Cote d'Ivoire and the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Other recent research by her has focused on the role of women in radical movements in Northern Nigeria, the conflict in Yemen, and on civil society in Tunisia, Libya and Egypt.

Reading the history of the Anglicans in the 20th century, through the records of the Lambeth Conferences, ACCs and Primates» meetings, one sees the faithfulness of God through world war, economic crisis, civil and international conflicts, persecution and deep changes in cultural context.

Regardless of what Gaddafi threatened Benghazi with last week, what is happening in Libya is a civil conflict which is a very long way from genocide.

He is also interested in the impact of international organisations in the management and resolution of civil conflicts and also in the political and economic transitions of former communist states.

The situation on the ground in Syria is tragic and deeply saddening, but escalating the conflict and Americanizing the Syrian civil war will not resolve the matter.»

The difficulties posed by multiparty conflicts such as the war in Syria are important to recognize, because the proportion of civil wars involving more than two combatants seems to be increasing.

The track record of international conflict management in civil wars since the end of the Cold War has been impressive, with internationally facilitated negotiated ends to long wars in Guatemala, Mozambique, Burundi, El Salvador, and between northern and southern Sudan.