Sentences with phrase «ethnic conflicts»

His research interests include ethnic conflict and civil war and their international management.

The photographs explore the resilience of a people recovering from a period of politically fueled ethnic conflict.

In time, the tree also became a symbol for peace and conflict resolution, especially during ethnic conflicts in Kenya when the Green Belt Movement used peace trees to reconcile disputing communities.

There is mounting opposition to the creation of the North East Region with threats of ethnic conflicts by chiefs loyal...

There is mounting opposition to the creation of the North East Region with threats of ethnic conflicts by chiefs loyal to the Dagbon Traditional Council.

The example of Eastern Europe and the republics of the former USSR show how ethnic conflicts can be engendered when such situations arise.

The political changes, along with ethnic conflict and the presence of radical Islam, bumped Turkey from No. 45 to No. 37 on the World Watch List this year.

And yet, it would not be a contextual theology if it fails to start from the traumatic experiences of people themselves caught in the midst of the Tamil - Sinhalese bloody ethnic conflict.

Ojuade said with Nigeria being a country blessed with over 600 ethnic groups, the country is well positioned to use its cultural diversity to foster peace rather than allow ethnic conflicts.

Ethnic conflicts sharpened.

More than 1,100 people were killed when the disputed result erupted into ethnic conflict, most acutely in parts of the capital, Nairobi and in the Rift Valley.

The role of the United Nations in the face of shifting geopolitical alliances and ferocious ethnic conflicts is a rich and complicated topic, as a glance at the past few weeks» newspapers will confirm, but none of that complexity troubles the shiny surface of this film, which is mainly interested in the United Nations as a piece of architecture.

In the case of the Paris - set Code Unknown, it was when atrocities committed during the vicious ethnic conflicts in what was then Yugoslavia were being exposed.

At the end of the 20th century at the end of the authoritarian New Order government in 1997 until 2000, Indonesia recorded a black history of violent conflict is ethnic conflict between Dayak and Madurese in West Kalimantan and South Kalimantan; riots in May 1998 which is the accumulation of public protests against the government; religious conflicts in Ambon; and also religious conflicts in Poso, Central Sulawesi.

Here are the bombed - out remains of the Bosnian National Library, a symbol of the way in which ethnic conflict can destroy a nation's cultural heritage.

The emergence of human rights education amidst ethnic conflict in the Dominican Republic.

On the formal side, I have a B.A. in Humanities from Soka University of America (California, USA) and a Masters in Comparative Ethnic Conflict from Queens University Belfast (North Ireland).

Land issues have always been at the heart of Assam's long - simmering ethnic conflicts.

In it, Farrow called on social networks like Twitter and Facebook to «do more to stop terrorists from inciting violence,» and argued that if these platforms screen for things like child porn, they should do the same for material that «drives ethnic conflict,» such as calls for violence from Abu Bakr al - Baghdadi, the leader of the Jihadist group known as ISIS.

Dealing with such subjects as the sexual exploitation of women in prostitution, the role of the media, and the effects of ethnic conflicts, the works pinpoint fractures of Western societies which have hardly been remedied to this day and thus lend the oeuvre its unmitigated topicality.

All these extremely fragile and underdeveloped economies have either recently been through a civil war or are suffering from ongoing sectarian or ethnic conflicts.

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.

And everyone understands that ethnic conflict could reverse that reality, driving off the foreign investment, tourism and multinational corporations that have been carefully courted.

The world, Rieff says, has become too complex and violent, The ideological and ethnic conflicts that seem to demand humanitarian intervention are precisely the kinds of conflict that are most intractable, brutal and likely to be accompanied by civil wars and pervasive political instability Even with the best of intentions, humanitarian intervention can not create civil, social and political stability.

One might argue that Russia did not hesitate to employ such a hard Realpolitik when it interfered in the ethnic conflicts in Moldova and Georgia in the early 1990s and when it recognized South Ossetia and Abkhazia after the Russian - Georgian War in 2008.

Ditto recent events affecting the Rohingya people - the country was once under British rule but that doesn't seem to have been widely cited as the underlying reason for this year's ethnic conflict.

He said he wanted to see the release of more political prisoners and called for «real political solutions» to be found to ethnic conflicts, where only limited progress has been achieved so far.

Among his 17 books today are Ethnic Conflict: A Global Perspective (Oxford University Press 2007), Conflict Management in Divided Societies (Routledge 2011), and The European Union as a Global Conflict Manager (Routledge 2012).

We have also been besieged with a civil war, ethnic conflicts, and rifts; and we have enjoyed relative peace as a nation.

This article is part of this week's Science special issue on human conflict, which traces the trajectory of violence and war throughout history, exploring racism, ethnic conflicts, the rise of terrorism, and the possible future of armed conflicts.

Small changes in climate can cause wars, topple governments and crush economies already strained by poverty, corruption and ethnic conflict

Educating refugees is a part of taking energetic measures to prevent escalation of political or ethnic conflict and to create a stable, viable, progressive, and free society.

Her research, however, found some proactive approaches that school leaders are using to reduce racial and ethnic conflict.

Here's the official info: Story Environmental destruction and ethnic conflict... on a future earth where various problems still haven't been solved, it suddenly appeared.

Chaiderov attended the Universities of Stockholm and studied Art History, Sociology, Nationalism and Ethnic Conflicts, Neuropschycology from 2005 to 2010.

Any way so what, the weapon was promptly used to enslave over a billion people and became a mianstay of almost every genocide post WW II, not to mention civil and ethnic conflict.

Asia Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict The Asia Pacific Centre for Human Rights and the Prevention of Ethnic Conflict was founded in 1996 to promote the teaching and research of human rights in the Asia - Pacific region.