Sentences with phrase «scale economic disruption»

In 2014, he put 1 % of his net worth into Bitcoin, judging that the digital currency's potential for large - scale economic disruption (see Forbes» cover story on the coin revolution) outweighed the risk of a total loss.

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Abstract: More than twenty years of statelessness and related insecurity, including the proliferation of armed groups, the fragmentation of politics along clan - based lines, economic disruption and large scale population displacement, have had dire consequences on the rights and protection of women and young girls in Somalia; resulting in an increase in gendered patterns of violence as disillusioned and armed young men have been turning against women and girls with impunity.Implicated are Africa Union Mission to Somalia (AMISOM) peacekeepers, government soldiers and some men within Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in Mogadishu, with allegations that tantamount to protector turning to perpetrator and exploiter.

Social and economic disruption on a massive scale is fundamental to the plan — economic collapse they argue is a transitional opportunity.

President Obama should forthrightly communicate the scale and gravity of projected climate disruption and its physical, economic, and geopolitical implications for the nation and the world.

As British Foreign Secretary Margaret Beckett warned the U.N. Security Council, the risk of massive economic disruption and «migration on an unprecedented scale» make climate change a true security threat.