Sentences with phrase «many violent conflicts»

The Search for Common Ground, a non-profit which aims to reduce the number of violent conflicts being fought around the world, even lists the re-phrasing skill as an essential ingredient in non-violent conflict resolution.

Dr Williams, who is Chairman of Christian Aid which is providing humanitarian assistance in South Sudan, said: «The recent escalation of violent conflict in Juba since July 7 has caused yet more appalling suffering for the people of South Sudan who have over the past two and a half years endured the terrible consequences of a return to war and the bitter disappointment of hopes denied or deferred.

In something of an oblique way this article alludes to the 5th Crusade and the Sultan Malik s well as St. Francis Assisi and we must bear in mind (in all of this violent conflict) that the Mediterranean is actually the junction of three continents (Africa, Asia, Europe) and that powerful empires have been bumping into one another since the beginning of recorded history (Babylon, Egypt, Persian, Assyria, Alexander, Rome, Carthage, the Moors, Christian Crusaders, El Cid -LRB-!!)

This is a depressing message for those who believe, like Pamuk, that Western values are basically right and that cross-cultural reconciliation is the only way to prevent more violent conflict between our two civilizations.

Religious differences in the United Sates are numerous and varied, yet they rarely lead to extended violent conflicts such as happens in Northern Ireland, the Middle East, the subcontinent of Asia, and in many other places.

We often hear an explanatory narrative involving coexistence in a pluralistic society or the sad truth that religious differences have sparked violent conflict.

Failure to do so leads to cultural and even violent conflicts as in Sri Lanka in recent decades.

The people seek to live overcoming contradictions and violent conflicts among the nature, human groups and powers.

The life will not be secure in this global market; and it is vulnerable to the violent conflicts and confrontations in the midst of limitless competitions of the globalized market.

Having come to associate the direct application of Scripture to governance with violent conflict and political instability, English Protestants were primed to turn to Enlightenment ideals that promised a reasonable path to tolerance and peaceful governance at the expense of biblical authority.

At the slightest provocation of hurt to the religious sentiments of a given group, violent conflicts arise, causing untold destruction of lives and property as we have witnessed in the recent riots in Bombay

It is not surprising that the slums in our cities, where there is an intense struggle for basic necessities, have become scenes of violent conflict, M.N. Srinivas, the eminent sociologist, observes «The richest soil for communal frenzy to build on is poverty, illiteracy, unemployment and slum — like conditions — all of which are m plenty in urban India» (India Today, January 16 - 31, 1993).

The project began in 1992 with a conference occasioned by growing and often violent conflicts between Catholics and evangelical....

A number of Christian parliamentarians have rallied together in support of Iraqi Christians to return home after violent conflict.

During the week long meeting that came to an end on Friday, the Primates also discussed issues such as climate change, human trafficking, the refugee crisis, persecution against Christians and violent conflict.

Life will no longer; and it is vulnerable to the violent conflicts and confrontations, produced by limitless competition.

Religion holds that effort back and creates more problems, especially violent conflicts.

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.

Four Christian humanitarian aid charities are among a coalition of leading UK aid agencies which has announced a joint fundraising appeal for victims of violent conflict in Myanmar.

The communication and information process that is dominated by the powerful creates violent conflicts on the social psychological level as well as on cultural levels.

While divorces are sometimes preceded by years of angry or violent conflict, divorce also ends many marriages that had both up and down sides.

More insidiously, and ubiquitously, facts relating to violent conflict have long been distorted or blatantly suppressed.

On why Buhari Must Heed EU's advice, the group stated that in the world over, violent suppression of non-violent protests by territorial governments have always boomeranged; leading the suppressed to abandon non-violent approaches and resort to self help or self defense approaches including Most of the ongoing devastating intra State violent conflicts in Africa and the Middle East primarily started as non-violent socio - political or ethno - cultural campaigns, but turned violent on account of the host States» repressive and dictatorial responses.

Palestine can not force itself to come into existence (like Israel did in 1948) because it has no military and would lose badly in any violent conflict with Israel.

Moreover, this is not to say that liberal - democracies may not engage in violent conflicts, but that these always involve a non-liberal democratic international actor.

Violent conflicts that end by military victory tend to produce a more durable peace than conflicts that end by a negotiated settlement.

And where there has been violent conflict, political reconstitution may be difficult to achieve.

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

We see much more intra-state conflict as a proportion of violent conflict overall, since the end of the Cold War, which has led to more opportunities for third parties to get involved in an effort to build peace.

In Colombia, peace negotiations between Colombia's government and the rebel group FARC hold out the promise of an end to more than five decades of violent conflict, which has left 220,000 dead and produced a refugee crisis second in scale only to that of Syria.

The minister noted that the meeting was a follow - up to a parley with state governors two weeks ago over the violent conflicts between farmers and herdsmen in Benue State and other places.

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.

Kwara State Governor, Dr Abdulfatah Ahmed has warned that he will not hesitate to sanction any traditional ruler or constituted authority who is found to contribute to outbreak of violent conflict in the State.

Overcoming evil: Genocide, violent conflict, and terrorism.

On the contrary, LeBlanc argues, prehistoric warfare in the Southwest was common, prolonged, and at least as deadly on a per capita basis as the most violent conflicts of the 20th century.

Human - induced drying in many societies can push tensions over a threshold that provokes violent conflict

A new mapping tool shows where vulnerability to climate change and violent conflicts intersect throughout Africa

Since the end of World War II, violent conflict between states has declined drastically, owing in part to the nuclear standoff of the major powers (two scorpions in a bottle writ large).

For instance, more accurate data could be used to gauge the effect of wealth on violence, or the severity of the economic damage inflicted by violent conflict.

«The bad news is that central African forests have been spared because violent conflicts have prevented economic development, at the costs of human lives and livelihoods.»

A number of research efforts in recent years have suggested that warmer temperatures and drought increase the risk of violent conflict around the world.

«Up until recently, the ability use geospatial analysis to identify troop movements in preparation for violent conflicts was more the purview of professional militaries,» he noted.

As a result of these desperate conditions, the dryland countries are host to a disproportionate number of the world's violent conflicts.

Research by the AAAS team, including insights to the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, is «hitting at a huge and very important question,» said Noel Dickover, senior program officer at the PeaceTech Lab, which is affiliated with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP): «What if peace - builders had access to geospatial information in near - real time to look at incidents of violent conflicts before they arise?

«HIV spreads faster as violent conflict looms.»

Indeed, climate records indicate that the arid, landlocked steppe was seized by decades of drought in the late years of the 12th century, possibly exacerbating the violent conflicts that racked the region at the time.

A new study of the relationship between violent conflict and HIV incidence in sub-Saharan Africa finds that HIV incidence may be at its worst in the period before hostilities break out.

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.