Sentences with phrase «from violent conflict»

Climate change policies, particularly those associated with changing rights to resources, can also increase risks from violent conflict.

How do we recognise a stable peace in countries emerging from violent conflict?

She stepped on one of the many landmines that remain from violent conflicts in the area.

Not exact matches

Refugees often are forced from their home by war, violent political conflict, or natural disaster.

That they were able to do this because the nomadic traditions of their race had come into violent conflict with a more sophisticated civilization, so that, in the name of conservatism, they could appeal to old folk - ways against the new commercialism, does not detract from their credit.

These initiatives will enable the UN to learn from previous conflicts and to tackle violent non-state groups in a variety of marginalised regions.

But it is far more cost - effective to invest aid in conflict prevention — in countries like Somalia and Mali, both of which suffered from hunger crises last year — than it is to pay the cost of responding to violent conflict and civil war.

«While there is an urgent operational need to ascertain information from Musa Kusa with respect to the present conflict in Libya, the relevant authorities, including the police, should in time be able to ask him all the necessary questions about Libya's violent history, not least on British soil.»

Modern human skeletal remains resulting from genocides, violent conflicts, and mass disasters are primarily analyzed and documented by forensic anthropologists, whose skills have been applied to this work for several decades, often providing information that is otherwise inaccessible.

They point to direct effects resulting from rising temperatures and changes in the frequency and strength of storms, floods, droughts, and heat - waves — as well as to less direct impacts, such as changes in crop yields, the burden and distribution of infectious disease, and climate - induced population displacement and violent conflict.

USIP Fellowship programs serve USIP's mission to prevent, manage and resolve violent conflict, via support for cutting - edge research, writing, analysis and convening by emerging and leading international experts from multidisciplinary backgrounds.

For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.

He draws only on the violent and revisionist later entries in the genre (Leone, Sergio Corbucci, Clint Eastwood, Sam Peckinpah) to make a nihilist, heel - dragging black comedy that borrows its central conflict from John Wick.

A patriarch can not keep the farm going as a concern, can not even educate his youngest child, and can not prevent his embittered sons from violent Oedipal conflict followed by flight; surface naturalism is rent by dream, mysticism, and savage social satire.

With its sprawling desert vistas and violent frontier conflict, the Outback of old isn't so far removed from the Wild West of American legend — which is why, of course, there's a whole subgenre of Aussie oaters.

Té, from North Richmond, falls in love with Harmony, from Central, amidst the violent conflict between these communities.

Scale social conflicts in Indonesia range from non-violent to violent conflict are often asking victims of property and even lives.

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.

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.

Rwanda, the Sudan, and the Middle East demonstrate how violent conflicts emerge indirectly from an ecological deficit.

Scarcity of resources from the environment — be it clean air, water, food, energy, or land — leads to violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations

They desired to maintain peaceful «progress» and this helped Columbus avoid the violent conflicts resulting from desegregation that Albany, Georgia and Macon, Georgia faced.

Suffering a strange disorder that causes her to hear a «stream of chatter,» Anna flees her intolerable marriage with her sweet and resilient six - year - old daughter, Lena, traveling from Alaska to Maine, only to be tracked down by her vicious, ambitious husband, who escalates their violent family conflict into a war of cosmic proportions.

Even though the raspy voice is his trademark, he also did a great job with range of emotions Solid Snake goes through, from violent and conflict - loving to more human and compassionate.

Known for his opulent aesthetic featuring colorful scenes inlaid with enamel, glitter, and semi-precious stones, Shaw's phantasmagorical dreamscapes often depict characters in conflict and commonly draw from the artist's own «diaries» alongside the violent and erotic.

The theme of the violent enforcement of cultural conformity in these series — cutting, trimming, and stretching to fit, and the codification of human transgressions — is in constant conflict with the singular nature of the artist's desire for truth and escape from illusions.

While violent conflict over water is far from likely in the United States, Kelley says «we need to be proactive.»

By Peter Gleick, President April 27, 2016 Populations around the world face many severe water challenges, from scarcity to contamination, from political or violent conflict to economic disruption.

For a volume covering such a large number of grim subjects, ranging from climate change and violent conflict to loss of biodiversity and malnutrition, this is a surprisingly uplifting read.

3) indirect impacts mediated through societal systems, such as undernutrition and mental illness from altered agricultural production and food insecurity, stress and undernutrition and violent conflict caused by population displacement, economic losses due to widespread «heat exhaustion» impacts on the workforce, or other environmental stressors, and damage to health care systems by extreme weather events.

Water and food scarcity, flooding or extreme weather events, violent conflicts, economic collapses, and a number of other climate damages could precipitate mass migration to the United States from regions worldwide.

But the good news for tropical forests was tempered by developments including Indonesia announcing its intentions to open up more than 2 million hectares of carbon - dense peatlands to old palm development; the collapse in law enforcement in Madagascar, contributing to an explosion of commercial timber (and lemur) harvesting in that country's spectacular rainforest parks; a breakdown at the RSPO meeting over efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from palm oil production; violent conflict in Peru between government security forces and indigenous groups over land rights and resource extraction; massive foreign land acquisitions in the Congo Basin; dodgy REDD dealings in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and large - scale expansion of oil palm agriculture in the Amazon.

That means sourcing raw materials that don't fund armed forces or violent conflicts, from mines that treat people like the human beings they are.

Regarding autonomous technology in warfare, all systems must observe the laws of war, and will be prohibited from uses that could increase violent conflict or civilian casualties.

The authors address everything from minor schoolyard conflicts to violent outbursts, and offer educators and parents proven strategies for enhancing children's emotional, social, and conflict resolution skills.

For example, Johnston (1995) concluded from her most recent review that «highly conflictual parents» (not necessarily violent) had a poor prognosis for becoming cooperative parents and there is increasing evidence that children of divorce have more problems because of the conflict between the parents before the divorce and not because of the divorce itself (Kelly, 1993).»

I have found that therapy has been a welcomed source of support for individuals throughout the process of recovery from sports and accident related trauma, marital conflict, parenting challenges, employment crisis, chronic and terminal illnesses, physical assaults, domestic violence and sexual assaults and natural disaster and violent conflict related trauma.