Sentences with phrase «over armed conflict»

The adoption of mass protest over armed conflict is to be welcomed after decades of vicious civil wars, often perpetrated by small groups of armed men with no broad - based political agenda and little desire to shape one.

Not exact matches

An unusual move by a US regulator threatens to widen a conflict over potential manipu - lation of Hovnanian default swaps by Blackstone's credit arm GSO.

Over the course of three seasons, the crew also questioned American Imperialism when the crew arms a group of vulnerable primitive aliens with flintlock rifles, possibly sparking generations of conflict, and one cast member even references botched foreign policy «of the early 20th century.»

It's also a place where there's the potential for small scale regional conflict — political at this time — such as between China, Vietnam and Japan over the Spratley islands in the South China Sea and the known unknowns around political instability in nuclear - armed Pakistan and that nation's relationship to its nuclear - armed neighbour, India.

The Russian armed forces are spread between these fronts, so they desperately need some political resources to keep control over all these conflicts.

Over the past 15 years of armed conflict and social upheaval in Colombia, production of illicit narcotics crops has skyrocketed.

To examine how the availability of food may have affected armed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualarmed conflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casconflict in Africa, the study relies on PRIO - Grid data from over 10,600 grid cells in Africa from 1998 to 2008, new agricultural yields data from EarthStat and Armed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualArmed Conflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casConflict Location and Event Dataset, which documents incidents of political violence, including those with and without casualties.

Sites of ancient conflicts reignite a debate over when members of our species first took up arms against each other.

The wildlife populations of this spectacular landscape have been subject to heavy poaching during various periods over the past decades, and conservation efforts in the area, carried out thanks to longstanding EU financial support through PDRN, ECOFAC and ECOFAUNE projects, have been negatively impacted by the past three years of armed conflict.

Armed with the latest modern weaponry, players can take control of any of the game's 30 + vehicles to engage in major conflicts with over 100 players in some of the largest online battles on the PC.

Armed with the latest modern weaponry, players can take control of any of the game's 30 + vehicles to engage in major conflicts with over

A missing arm, protruding prostheses, raw face, and heavy diamond earring support a darker narrative about the bloody effects of conflicts in Africa waged over scarce resources controlled by the West.

Thus, Yanai, armed with abstraction as a method of resistance, shifts in his last exhibitions from the private conflict over a way of life, to a personal struggle over living room and a greater battle over human space.

Armed groups finance themselves through the illicit conflict mineral trade and fight over control of mines and taxation points inside Congo.

Over the last 60 years, more than two - thirds of the world's remaining biodiversity hotspots have experienced armed conflict.

Part one introduces the series themes and basically reviews the current state of the science, while part two outlines how climate change impacts could lead to global demographic, agricultural and political instability and even outright armed conflict, including a nuclear exchange in South Asia over rapidly depleting water supplies.

Over the last 15 years, Global Witness has investigated the links between the lucrative trade in tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold and armed conflict in eastern Congo.

Given that several of the nations around the Arctic are nuclear armed, conflicts over prospective natural resources under the rapidly retreating Arctic icecap could be bad.

Article 1 of Additional Protocol II of 1977 to the Geneva Convention applies to «armed conflicts -LSB-...] which take place in the territory of a High Contracting Party between its armed forces and dissident armed forces or other organised armed groups which, under responsible command, exercise such control over a part of its territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol» (para. 1).

I point out that though the APs are among the most widely ratified treaties, the list of States not parties to them is practically a list of countries that have been involved in major armed conflicts over the last 30 years.

This means that from that date, AP II (which applies to non-international armed conflicts) will apply to the conflict in Afghanistan (i) in so far the conflict takes place between the forces of the government of Afghanistan and insurgents; and (2) in so far as the Taleban and other insurgents «exercise such control over a part of [Afghanistan's] territory as to enable them to carry out sustained and concerted military operations and to implement this Protocol.»

In his tenth report on the protection of civilians in armed conflict issued on 22 November 2013, United Nations Secretary - General has called for international action to address the concerns over fully autonomous weapons or «killer robots.»

Over the past year since the report was issued, much of the debate over fully autonomous weapons has focused on the weapons» potential role in armed conflict, raising questions over whether the weapons would ever be able to comply with international humanitarian law, also called the laws of war, but calls have increased in recent weeks for the human rights concerns to be taken into accoOver the past year since the report was issued, much of the debate over fully autonomous weapons has focused on the weapons» potential role in armed conflict, raising questions over whether the weapons would ever be able to comply with international humanitarian law, also called the laws of war, but calls have increased in recent weeks for the human rights concerns to be taken into accoover fully autonomous weapons has focused on the weapons» potential role in armed conflict, raising questions over whether the weapons would ever be able to comply with international humanitarian law, also called the laws of war, but calls have increased in recent weeks for the human rights concerns to be taken into accoover whether the weapons would ever be able to comply with international humanitarian law, also called the laws of war, but calls have increased in recent weeks for the human rights concerns to be taken into account.

Concerns are increasing over the potential impact of fully autonomous weapons under human rights law, which applies during peacetime as well as armed conflict.

In the future, however, militaries will be able to field weapons that can function with less supervision and guidance in an armed conflict, raising a new round of concerns over the legal and ethical implications of «remote» combat.

Prior to 2006, the district had been the epicenter of over 20 years of armed conflict between the Ugandan Government and the LRA rebel group.