Sentences with phrase «local conflicts»

Beyond the above - mentioned areas, local conflicts with small - scale or conflicts associated with criminal activity, are common.

Some of them may be improved regionally, especially if they are not in local conflict with other competing problems.

Nevertheless, Russia sees itself as a «helpless hostage» of local conflicts across the former USSR.

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».

«Social media and technological advancement have led to innovative crime fighting and local conflict resolution strategies.

In 2000, we benefited from this because as a result of the Sunyani Declaration, there was a lot of restlessness in the NDC and the grassroots, many local conflicts.

What's more, he continued, the United States would no longer bother with small local conflicts like Korea to keep communism in check.

Her reporting shows that gender inequality has much wider consequences than some might think: «Gender inequality fuels social instability, crime, and local conflict [and] women's subordination is substantially enforced by their exclusion from the money system.»

When we analyse local conflicts, we tend to focus on their ethnic and religious aspects.

«Our assistance has helped provide employment opportunities, helped resolve local conflicts and promoted knowledge sharing with local communities about the importance and benefits of protecting their wildlife heritage.

Local conflict resolution and peacebuilding groups reported increased activity on the part of nearby rebel groups (most notably various Mai Mai factions and the Allied Democratic Forces), as well as the formation of numerous militias.

«Through the workings of a diplomacy based on the balance of power, a local conflict was transformed into a European war, which itself, through the influence of industry, democracy, and the rough equivalence between the opposing forces, grew into a hyperbolic war.»

When Shanghai - based businessman Jérome Varenne learns that his childhood home in the village of Ambray is at the centre of a local conflict, he heads there to straighten things out and finds himself at the centre of familial and romantic complications.

He's returned to his birthplace of Kyrat to spread his mother's ashes as her final request, and subsequently gets caught up in the local conflict.

But for many British artists and writers, the local conflict between the Republicans and Franco's insurgents was emblematic of a much greater Europe - wide battle between radically opposed ideologies.