Sentences with phrase «year civil conflict»

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The fight for Afrin, a once stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever greater role of foreign powers in the seven - year - old conflict.

The fight for Afrin, a once - stable pocket of northwest Syria, has opened a new front in Syria's multi-sided civil war and highlighted the ever - greater role of foreign powers such as Turkey in the seven - year - old conflict.

Its emergency response team responds to an average of 30 natural disasters and humanitarian crises worldwide each year from earthquakes and cyclones to disease outbreaks and civil conflict.

The U.S. Civil War was a bloody conflict, but that war lasted only 5 years, and the antagonists did take prisoners.

They've stuck their noses in to virtually every Middle Eastern conflict in the last 70 years, including he Israeli War of Independence, Suez War, Iraqi Army Revolt, Lebanese Civil War, Mosul Revolt, Kirkuk violence, Kurdish Revolt, North Yemen Civil War, Dhofar Rebellion, Six - Day War, The War of Attrition, Jordanian Civil War, Yom Kippur War, Egyptian - Libyan Border War, Intra-Iraqi Kurdish warfare, Iraqi Shia unrest in Karbala, Yemeni War, «The Tanker War», Osiraq Reactor Raid, Israeli Invasion of Lebanon, South Yemen Civil War, 2 Intifadas, Sa «dah Insurgency, and the Gaza War.

How about the never ending Israeli / Palestine conflict (pick any war ara - isralie, six day, lebanon, gaza), ethiopian / somalian absynnian - adal war, the lebanese civil war, the nigerian conflict still going on, the darfur conflict, just to name a few in the past 50 years.

This year, after turning around and beating the Huskies, the Knights left the field of the «Civil ConFLiCT» without the rivalry trophy, like a half - crushed Powerade cup.

After four years with us Arlie was drafted to TIME»S news bureau, first serving in Chicago and then Atlanta, where his territory was the South, and his assignments, for the most part, were on civil rights conflicts.

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.

Kendall, now a visiting research professor at Northeastern University in Boston, has maintained Reisner's old excavating concession through two civil wars: the recently settled 20 - year - long conflict in the south between Sudan's Islamic fundamentalist government and the rebels, and the ongoing genocide in the western Darfur region.

«We find that civil wars were much more likely to happen in warmer - than - average years, with one degree Celsius warmer temperatures in a given year associated with a 50 percent higher likelihood of conflict in that year,» Burke says.

On the nearby Thai - Burma border, the world's longest - running civil war, the Burmese - Karen conflict, rages into its 60th year.

One hundred and fifty years after shots fired at Fort Sumter ignited the Civil War, a growing number of teachers are digging directly into primary sources and using technology to help their students better understand the conflict and bring it to life.

And although there have been considerably fewer «traditional» conflicts among states in recent years, today's are extremely violent and are increasingly affecting civil populations and the weaker regions of the world.

In the Scholastic Encyclopedia of the Civil War (Scholastic, Inc.), historian and author Catherine Clinton provides a detailed, year - by - year account of one of the most heartbreaking conflicts in the nation's history.

Now, in Gone for Soldiers, Jeff Shaara carries us back fifteen years before that momentous conflict, when the Civil War's most familiar names are fighting for another cause, junior officers marching under the same flag in an unfamiliar land, experiencing combat for the first time in the Mexican - American War.

The Soviet Union intervened in 1979 to prop up a pro-communist regime, but after they withdraw many years later the civil war dragged on until the Taleban took control - initially bringing a measure of stability after 20 years of conflict.

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For more than 25 years, the artist, teacher and archaeologist has actively responded to the country's recent decades of civil conflict through his expressive figure paintings, performances and installations.

That's not to say that El Nino, a large movement of water in the Pacific Ocean that occurs about every four to five years, can be said to cause any given civil conflict.

The conflict in Kosovo, less than four years after the brutal civil war in Bosnia, was a wake - up call to the international community.

Only the final model (5f in Fig. 2) returns a statistically significant climate parameter estimate; apparently, major civil war years (i.e., years with at least 1,000 battle deaths) are more frequent in years following unusually wet periods — a result that directly contradicts the notion of scarcity - induced conflicts.

They wrote: «This result, which indicates that ENSO may have had a role in 21 % of all civil conflicts since 1950, is the first demonstration that the stability of modern societies relates strongly to the global climate» (ENSO, the El Niño / Southern Oscillation, is the scientific term for the cycle of alternating warmer and cooler years).

After analysing data from 1950 to 2004, they found that «the probability of new civil conflicts arising throughout the tropics doubles during El Niño years relative to La Niña years.»

Indeed the second Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report published this year found that climate change was already impacting global society in a number of different ways, including decreasing agricultural output, acidifying the oceans, worsening extreme weather, and even exacerbating the risk of civil conflicts.

Researchers have proved that the risk of civil conflict doubles in the hotter and drier conditions prevailing in El Nino years.

But elsewhere in Asia, work is moving ahead to turn another area more associated with conflict than conservation into a sanctuary for at - risk elephants.A year and a half after Sri Lanka's quarter - century civil war ended, officials have announced plans to use more than 100,000 acres of jungle — the former stronghold of the Tamil Tigers separatists — to help protect wildlife, The Guardian reported today.

Beverly is a volunteer mediator for the Commission on Civil Rights, Baltimore, Maryland.Prior to her training as a mediator, Beverly worked for fifteen years as a facilitator, trainer, and consultant within the Employee Assistance field conducting trainings for managers and supervisors on managing conflict in organizational settings.

He has extensive experience in workplace conflict including EEO, discrimination and employment claims, personnel matters related to discipline, hiring and promotions, and labor negotiations.Judge Karasic handled civil and criminal matters for nearly twelve years on the bench, where he presided over thousands of contract and tort cases.