Sentences with phrase «more violent conflict»

«On a continent that has experienced more violent conflict than any other, this exhibition follows an individual's narration of events that lead up to the inaugural speech by the first supposedly democratically elected prime minister.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Almost inevitably, then, today's mass media seek temporary gains in the more basic, more violent levels of conflict.

One reason for this debate is that some of the most violent and seemingly intractable contemporary conflicts (Northern Ireland, the Middle East, Bosnia, Sri Lanka) have taken place across lines of religious difference and have often been fed, in more or less direct ways, by appeals to religious warrant or identity.

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

So where the biblical depictions of God conflict with what is seen in Jesus, we don't make Jesus to be more like that violent and bloody god, but should seek to understand what Jesus is telling us about that violent and bloody god....

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

«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.

The trio of enemies also provides a great deal of opportunities for conflict, making this Spidey outing feel more violent.

Violent conflicts are more likely to occur in nations or regions that don't provide quality education for their populations.

Torn between two worlds, Ken must survive violent conflicts between ghoul factions while learning more about ghoul society and what the fine line between ghoul and monster is.

Trapped between two worlds, Ken must survive the violent conflicts of warring Ghoul factions, while attempting to learn more about his powers.

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.

The conflicts for territorial control spread throughout the world, and each time they become more violent, while they confront local communities with financial giants and transnational industries searching the planet for new sources of profit.

Nowhere is this more true than in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where a long - standing violent conflict has killed almost 4 million people, garnering it recognition as the world's most lethal conflict since World War II.

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.

2007/04/17: CanWest: Darfur war, climate change linked A violent conflict that has claimed more than 300,000 lives in Darfur is one of the early signs of threats to global security prompted by climate change, a senior representative of the British government warned yesterday on the eve of a special United Nations debate.

It turns out the country has seen many bouts of violent Christian - Muslim conflict, so perhaps the government should be more concerned about accommodation and inclusion than questionable motives behind a simple greeting.

Were unhappy spouses who later divorced or separated more likely to be victims of high conflict or violent marriages than those who stayed married?

They argued that this negativity would then spill over into the dating relationship (e.g., more conflict and less trust), and, in turn, increase the likelihood that the kids become involved in a violent relationship.2 The general thinking is illustrated below:

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).»