"Violent conflict" refers to a situation where people or groups engage in fighting, war, or physical aggression that can cause harm, injury, or destruction.
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A number of research efforts in recent years have suggested that warmer temperatures and drought increase the risk
of violent conflict around the world.
Although it's a game focused on one of the most
violent conflicts in history, it's not an action game.
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 communication and information process that is dominated by the powerful
creates violent conflicts on the social psychological level as well as on cultural levels.
Issues including alcohol and drug abuse, assault and sexual abuse, gambling, theft, and
violent conflict contribute to the ongoing struggle to overcome the disadvantage experienced by those living there.
Environmental scarcity caused by climate change has been implicated as a driver
of violent conflict.
When a relic is discovered, one capable of linking the Fellowship to the slaughter of the Aroostook Baptists, Parker is forced into
violent conflict with the Fellowship and its enigmatic leader.
Scarcity of resources from the environment (clean air, water, food, energy, land etc.) leads to
violent conflicts within nations, and to war and terrorism between nations.13 Neomalthusians have argued that global environmental change leads to scarcities of resources that could lead to societal collapse.
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.
A number of Christian parliamentarians have rallied together in support of Iraqi Christians to return home
after violent conflict.
While
violent conflict over water is far from likely in the United States, Kelley says «we need to be proactive.»
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?
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.
In the first case such rules must grant more freedom and take into account more
violent conflicts while nevertheless supporting the dialogue, for the members of such a society are not free to leave it.
As disease ravaged the indigenous population and resources became scarce, a series of
violent conflicts arose between tribes, settlers, and the government that scarred the continent.
The project began in 1992 with a conference occasioned by growing and
often violent conflicts between Catholics and evangelical Protestants in Latin America.
In Africa, food abundance may be driving
violent conflict rather than food scarcity, according to a study published in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, a publication of the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.
«We believe that our model, which is low cost, mobile, and based in the local culture and language, could be salient for children that have
experienced violent conflict,» Howard says.
However, media's role has not always been positive, in some cases it has even been used as a weapon of war and a method to suppress freedoms, and
escalate violent conflict.
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.
World leaders have been working together to eliminate the global market in blood diamonds — stones that
fuel violent conflicts through their sale — for over a decade, but they continue to be bought and sold.
E) Adaptation and mitigation strategies, such as those which develop large infrastructure or the resettle communities against their will to reduce exposure to climate change, carry risks of disrupted livelihoods, displaced populations, deterioration of valued cultural expressions and practices, and in some
cases violent conflict.
I am in Kashmir, the disputed paradise on the border of India, Pakistan and China, as part of a project in which I am photographing people from opposite sides of
violent conflicts around the world.
«We demonstrate that research on climate change and
violent conflict suffers from a streetlight effect,» reads the study.
Using a number of strategies, these artists deconstruct — and contest — the affective means by
which violent conflict is presented, imagined, experienced, and consumed.
Since 1950, the Korean peninsula has been torn apart by war, with the threat of
violent conflict constantly looming on both sides of the demilitarized zone.
By casting good / bad, right / wrong personal judgment on others, we separate ourselves from them and this is ubiquitous on our planet; a major reason why there are so
many violent conflicts world wide.
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.