To involve traditional leaders in the prevention, management and resolution of conflicts, in particular conflicts over land

A number of political studies in particular had concluded that there were three types of conflict in developing countries border conflicts, ethnic conflicts and conflicts over water.

Over the past few decades, Africa has suffered more from armed conflicts than any other continent.

As in many countries, conflicts over public morality and national strategy come down to questions of money.

Regretfully, international mediation over the conflicts has yielded no results, and that has led to their prolongation.

Expressing its concern over the problem of conflict diamonds fuelling conflicts in a number of countries and the devastating impact of these conflicts on peace, safety and security for people in affected countries,

Indeed, the conflicts in Darfur, Somalia, and Côte d Ivoire were partly caused by disputes over agricultural and grazing land.

Perhaps tomorrow they will lose sleep over the mass demonstrations and social conflicts that tough economic policies have spawned.

It was estimated that at least three hundred thousand child soldiers were participating in armed conflicts all over the world.

For populations, especially women and vulnerable groups brutalized by conflicts, an effective and well funded reintegration and rehabilitation programme would constitute an assurance that conflicts are indeed over and that people can resume their normal lives.

Sudan has been ravaged for decades by bitter conflicts rooted in abject poverty, struggles over resources, and ethnic and religious tensions.

The use of these weapons in armed conflicts over the last 30 years has left a consistent trail of civilian casualties.

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India suffered caste conflicts, clashes over the rights of different linguistic groups, religious riots (mainly between Hindus and Muslims), and separatist threats.

These same leaders now must tolerate even facilitate the creation of institutions to mediate the conflicts over these rights that inevitably result.

They immobilize fiscal policy, lead to serious distortions in the financial system, trigger political fights over taxation, and incite costly distributional conflicts.

The Soviet Union opposed the United States in a number of proxy conflicts all over the world, including Korean War and Vietnam War.

The High Commissioner requests the Higher Council of the Judiciary to resolve conflicts over jurisdiction in accordance with constitutional jurisprudence and international norms.

We remain concerned, however, over the persistence of other crises and conflicts in Asia and Africa, where innocent lives are being lost daily.

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Michelle Compos records that Later, after the founding of Tel Aviv in 1909, conflicts over land grew in the direction of explicit national rivalry.

Contemporary armed conflicts have blurred the distinction between international and internal armed conflicts.

In the course of my work over the past 30 years, I have observed that whether it is at the national or regional level, most conflicts are over resources. Who will control and utilize them?

Unfortunately, over the same period a number of protracted conflicts have continued to keep millions of people displaced and in conditions of great insecurity. The conflict in northern Uganda has continued for over 18 years.

Before an economically unified Maghreb can be realized, however, inter state conflicts such as the Algerian Moroccan dispute over the Western Sahara must be resolved.

Over the past 10 years, Central Africa has been the setting for numerous armed conflicts, most of them centred around dynamics of exclusion and intolerance.

It is over extended, dependent upon massive daily imports of dollars and oil, and its armed forces are engaged in demanding conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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Children in armed conflicts

Organized crime and conflicts

Efforts to prevent conflicts were meaningless if the economic roots of those conflicts were not addressed.

Over and above these problems, we face mounting domestic and external debt, an unfair and inequitable global trading system and the prevalence of conflicts and political instability.

Conflicts with other international agreements

International Law of Armed Conflicts

Armed conflicts also hamper development.

Protecting children in armed conflicts

Although the number of conflicts has decreased during the last 10 years, today's conflicts tend to be protracted.

In all conflicts, human rights are among the first casualties, and in the Middle East the degradation of human dignity has now undone international conventions agreed over several generations.

Environmental vulnerability is accelerated when ecological sustainability is not maintained, livelihood opportunities are threatened possibly leading to natural disasters, emigration or increasing the likelihood of conflicts over declining resources.

Conflicts are down on the continent from about 12 conflicts a decade ago, we are down to three or four conflicts one of the most terrible, of course, of which is Darfur.

Internal armed conflicts could affect the operation of treaties as much as, if not more than international armed conflicts.

Dan Ariely Beware conflicts of interest