Sentences with phrase «which violent conflict»

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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.

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).

He concludes that the ways in which men will deal with conflict are not determined; and human intelligence and control may make possible a world order which can prevent the terrible destruction of violent warfare.22

Sometimes it has triggered conflict and even violence, when apocalyptic hope has led to violent attempts to «force in'the «new age» by a messianic group which conceives itself as the divine (or historically appointed) bearer of the new age.

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.

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.

It was a violent climax to a long - simmering conflict, which saw farmers regularly lose harvests as protected elephants raided their crops.

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?

For Mana, showing up for practice and competing in the meet are acts of open defiance, and Ariki isn't the kind of character you want to make angry, which pulls the openly conflicted Gen into the center of a potentially violent situation — one that feels like something out of a Paul Schrader movie (say, Travis Bickle's foolhardy attempt to liberate Iris at the end of «Taxi Driver») rather than the sort of climax audiences might anticipate from this otherwise Disney - appropriate inspirational drama.

All that's left is the action which, because there is nothing cohesive to attach it to, plays as an anthology of violent set - pieces connected by common characters instead of a series of high - octane conflict / resolution moments that advance a story.

With its sprawling desert vistas and violent frontier conflict, the Outback of old isn't so far removed from the Wild West of American legend — which is why, of course, there's a whole subgenre of Aussie oaters.

These introspective themes add some depth to this story, which otherwise consists of numerous battles sequences, sword fights, and violent conflicts.

At the end of the 20th century at the end of the authoritarian New Order government in 1997 until 2000, Indonesia recorded a black history of violent conflict is ethnic conflict between Dayak and Madurese in West Kalimantan and South Kalimantan; riots in May 1998 which is the accumulation of public protests against the government; religious conflicts in Ambon; and also religious conflicts in Poso, Central Sulawesi.

«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.

It's hard to imagine a world in which there's no violent conflict, where people solve their differences with words and not violence.

But for much of the 1980s and»90s few dared to visit the country, which was wracked by a violent conflict between guerrilla movement and Peru's armed forces.

Like most of Ubisoft's reveals, Valiant Hearts depicts gruesome, violent scenes in which characters butcher each other with various weapons; yet, the game is remarkably beautiful, and it goes beyond the senseless violence to tell a about a few soldiers trying to survive and make sense of the conflict.

«Postwar» becomes a condition that is not topographically constrained: it is a global consciousness of a violent modernity which counts partition conflicts, decolonisation and the rise of new technologies among its various geopolitical faces.

This new international group exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum New York gathers together artistic reactions to the ways in which media representations of violent conflict and identity are increasingly rendered through an individualized, and even banal perspective.

Wide consensus exists that violent conflicts are based on a variety of interconnected causes, of which the environment is considered to be one, but rarely the most decisive factor.

The report also highlighted the fact that climate change will exacerbate existing problems, such as access to resources and food security, which will most likely result in violent conflict.

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.

she identifies some of the principals in the spreading of what she calls this «alarmist rhetoric» to be various United Nations agencies, NGOs, national governments, security pundits, the popular media and — quite specifically — the Norwegian Nobel Committee of 2007, which, as she describes it, «warned that climate - induced migration and resource scarcity could cause violent conflict and war within and between states when it awarded the Nobel Peace Prize to Al Gore, Jr. and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.»

I would not call money spent preventing sudden disruptions in supply (as a result of violent conflict) a subsidy if it is preventing global price spikes, which tend to create corresponding profit spikes for oil companies.

The adoption of this Constitution lays the secure foundation for the people of South Africa to transcend the divisions and strife of the past, which generated gross violations of human rights, the transgression of humanitarian principles in violent conflicts and a legacy of hatred, fear, guilt and revenge.

Juries are peaceful mechanisms which replace the mechanism of resolution by violent conflict.

Good progress was being made on rule of law development at the national level when Yemen was suddenly engulfed in an international and violent conflict in which Iran and Saudi Arabia were the main actors.

The area was explored by Spanish explorers in the 16th century, resulting in violent conflicts and the introduction of European diseases, which wiped out the original native cultures.

This syndrome does not refer to conflict which threatens violence or actually becomes violent.

In others, the risk remains high, especially when the perpetrator has a violent «power and control» type of high - conflict personality which may become focused on the child.

Avoid exposing your child to high - conflict that involves the child, is physically violent, threatening or abusive; and conflict in which the child feels caught in the middle.

Avoid exposing your child to high - conflict that involves them, is physically violent, threatening or abusive; and conflict in which the child feels caught in the middle.

But what I do believe is that having the skills to avoid or resolve conflict is going to serve them well in life, and it might even ensure that the teens are not violent with one another and creating an abusive relationship which can so often be seen in teen romances.