Sentences with phrase «human face of conflict»

Not exact matches

This impending civilizational conflict indicates the fact that tribalism is so deeply entrenched in human behavioral patterns that it not only refuses to wither away but, in times of mounting tension in the face of threatening world crises, it is likely to intensify.

The mass killing of civilians, both in and outside armed conflict, is one of the greatest challenges facing human civilisation.

Monkeys typically find other monkeys impossible to ignore, and this experiment was no exception: the monkeys often failed at the reward task because they looked at the faces, especially if the faces depicted emotion.When humans are torn between paying attention to two different things, it triggers a «conflict» circuit in a brain region called the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC) which is part of a larger brain structure controlling rational thought and emotions.Using a tiny sensor implanted in the dACCs of the monkeys, Platt's group was able to measure the electrical activity of single neurons.

I wanted to put a human face to this conflict, to show how this violence is affecting everyday people, to show how everyday people are rising up to fight back, and to show the ramifications of what happens when citizens take the law into their own hands.

By comparing individuals» subjective interpretations and feelings (through interviews) with large scale data (in reports) and laws (outlined by human rights and Thai national laws), the research utilizes the triangulation approach to come up with a study that attempts to respect both the micro (individual) and macro (context) and therefore paint the human faces of displaced persons affected by factors beyond their control (conflict in Myanmar and Thai politics and law).

Bana's personal account gives a poignant human face to a nearly six - year conflict pitting President Bashar al - Assad against rebels seeking to oust him, in which hundreds of thousands of people have been killed and millions forced from their homes.

In You Know When the Men Are Gone, Siobhan Fallon has done the same thing for our current conflict, showing readers the human faces and hidden dramas of war.

On the anniversary of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, PVM and Discovery Park are collaborating to provide two special lectures about the power of the human - animal bond in the face of disaster and armed conflict.

They also face other threats from habitat destruction, continued poaching for ivory, meat and hides; trophy hunting; and removal because of conflicts with humans.

Let's face it, humans are sort of drawn into conflict.

Faced with two alternative constructions of native title, one resulting in the inevitable extinguishment of native title in a piecemeal fashion, the other resulting in the suspension of native title rights for the duration of the conflicting interest in land, the court should be guided in its choice by contemporary international human rights principles of equality and non-discrimination.

Terror - management theory proposes that humans face a unique psychological conflict: we desire to live but realize the inevitability of death, which induces terror that we alleviate by ensuring immortality through cultural (e.g. belief in an afterlife) and biological (e.g. reproducing) means [5,6].