Once a conflict is over, aid agencies seem paralyzed.

Meanwhile, over 40 countries have been scarred by violent conflict.

Economic growth permits conflict between social actors to be papered over.

He points out that the conflict in Chiapas is not over.

Bangladeshi peacekeepers had been deployed in conflict zones all over the world.

The positive aspects include respect for diversity and an emphasis on consensus building over conflict, practical solutions over lofty principles, and gradualism over abrupt change.

In any case, disputes over these policies are far from a theological conflict.

Hamas s crackdown thus highlights its desire to maintain control over its conflict with Israel.

Eritrea In 1995, there was a conflict between Yemen and Eritrea over the Hanish islands.

In 2003, over 3 million persons were newly internally displaced by conflict and over 300,000 prima facie refugees fled their homes en masse.

She also expressed concern over violence against children in times of war and conflict and over child labour, especially in mines and plantations.

Armed groups view conflict as a continuum of political and violent irregular operations over a long period that will provide control over local populations.

Yet the Cold War has been over for fifteen years, and military conflict between France and Germany today seems as unlikely as military conflict between America and Canada.

The violence began following an ordinary conflict between two small groups of young people over a taxi.

Journalistic ethics may conflict with the law over issues such as the protection of confidential news sources.

Conflict over the control of forests and other natural resources has often been an obstacle to peace.

Since the end of the conflict in June 1999, Serbia has not exercised any governing authority over Kosovo.

In the absence of such institutions, distributive conflict can easily spill over into protests, riots, and civil disorder.

Afghanistan is facing a legacy of human rights violations committed over more than two decades of armed conflict.

Over the past decade, forced displacement within borders has become one of the most disturbing features of conflict.

Matters were subsequently complicated by a separate conflict this time between Muslims over resources in the western Darfur region.

During the course of the conflict, over 25,000 children have been abducted, while 1.7 million people have been displaced.

Over the past five years there has, in general terms, been a decrease in the levels of armed conflict.

To meet these goals, the objective of peace should prevail over that of development if the two come into conflict.

Unlike the fracas over an American missile shield in Europe, this conflict shows no signs of blowing over, and threatens to damage further the rocky relationship between Russia and the West.

And globalization has left over 2 billion people behind people who bear the brunt of conflict, of disease, of grinding poverty.

Over the course of the conflict, children were kidnapped, forcibly recruited into the fighting forces and or trafficked with frightening regularity.

With an influx of itinerant labour into these remote and largely lawless regions, the potential for conflict over concessions is growing.

Over the decades, the United Nations has done a great deal to stabilize zones of conflict, and in the last 15 years or so also to help countries emerge from conflict, by deploying peacekeeping forces.

Others, including Belgium and Cameroon, have avoided serious conflict, but have experienced significant acrimony over the treatment of linguistic and regional minorities.

Despite concerns over conflict in southern Thailand, there are no secessionist enclaves beyond government control, and no indications of foreign terrorist involvement.

Over a million children have met this fate over the past 10 years, and hundreds of thousands of other children are enlisted in armed forces in countries where there is currently no armed conflict.

Conflict between advanced and developing countries over responsibility for mitigating carbon emissions should not be allowed to undermine prospects for a global agreement.

The first scenario is when a real war threatens to spill over into a wider conflict, destabilizing the region and Great Power relations.

Both home and host states will have to make sure that the current conflict over the LIA will not impede this important process.

Given internal conflict over taxes and spending, maybe Germany, not Greece, will become the euro zone s first country to see a government fall.

Women's role in conflict prevention, conflict resolution and post conflict reconstruction

Over the past decade, the negative impact of armed conflict on women and girls has been extensively documented.34 Women and girls have become prime targets of armed conflict and have disproportionately suffered its impact, particularly sexual violence.

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.

Rural hydraulic projects, which ensure access to water for these populations over large stretches of land, can prove to be efficient conflict prevention tools.

For example, Russia's most urgent foreign policy problems are its relations with the United States and the conflict over South Ossetia with neighboring Georgia.

CAIRO Arab intellectuals and policymakers have often accused Europe of using financial generosity to cover up its political impotence over the Arab Israeli conflict.

This area had a reputation for being rebellious, having been the scene of eleven separate periods of armed conflict over the previous 40 years.

The resolution that the Council has adopted today rightly expresses the Council's utmost concern over the dire consequences of the prolonged conflict in Darfur.

As a result, it is understood that over 10,000 civilians have been displaced by conflict in southern Shan state between March and June 2005.