And of course, we must also pay more attention to prevention so that societies can address their tensions and problems in ways that will avoid the descent into armed conflict in the first place.

Such envoys work with member countries to carry out dialogue and prevent conflicts before they occur.

There is also a need to strengthen coordination with the African Union in resolving the diverse conflicts in Africa.

While armed conflicts may frequently occur within rather than across borders, they nonetheless have implications for the regions where they are fought.

The potential of such relapses has grown in the proportion that conflicts have multiplied.

Armed conflicts also hamper development.

Regional intergovernmental organizations must engage actively with civil society partners in conflict prevention and peacebuilding processes.

While we can legitimately rejoice at the resolution of certain conflicts, we must note that, deplorably, certain situations are still far from settled.

Before such hydro engineering projects sow the seeds of water conflict, China ought to build institutionalized, cooperative river basin arrangements with downstream states.

Two other events in the history of Jordan affected its demographics, the outcomes of the 1948 and the 1967 conflicts with Israel.

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

It also encompasses a multitude of tribal conflicts inter tribal, as well as intra tribal and clan fights.

His delegation agreed that the United Nations must combine peacekeeping with a development oriented approach and endeavour to achieve comprehensive and durable peace in conflict areas in cooperation with relevant agencies and regional and subregional organizations.

These internal armed conflicts also threaten the coexistence of diverse ethnic and cultural groups in the countries in which they occur.

One cannot expect the law to solve all cultural conflicts.

Authoritarian regimes lack the institutions of conflict management that democracies provide.

How is the Council to interact more with regional organizations in following up on post conflict stabilization and peacebuilding?

Its efforts to accommodate and come to terms with disruption are a source of misunderstandings, difficulties and even conflict.

It is imperative to underline that the protection of civilian populations in armed conflict is strictly mandatory for all States and all parties concerned in a situation of armed conflict.

Not all conflicts between religion and the state are easy to resolve.

31. Strongly condemns any recruitment or use of children in armed conflict contrary to international law, as well as other violations and abuses committed against children affected by armed conflict, and urges all States and other parties to armed conflict that are engaged in such practices to end them

35. Strongly condemns any recruitment or use of children in armed conflict contrary to international law, as well as other violations and abuses committed against children affected by armed conflict, and urges all States and other parties to armed conflict that are engaged in such practices to end them

Strongly condemns any recruitment or use of children in armed conflict contrary to international law, as well as other violations and abuses committed against children affected by armed conflict, and urges all States and other parties to armed conflict that are engaged in such practices to end them

This is the exact opposite of a genuine zero conflict policy that aims to minimize tensions and enhance stability.

The international community must closely monitor this process, however, to ensure that tribal reconciliation or conflict resolution talks do not become a substitute for a political settlement.

These intra media struggles are interesting and important.

The private sector must also assume its responsibilities in conflict prevention.

Fatal Thaws

Lasting prevention means altering the conditions that give rise to conflicts.

39. Strongly condemns any recruitment or use of children in armed conflict contrary to international law, as well as other violations and abuses committed against children affected by armed conflict, and urges all States and other parties to armed conflict that are engaged in such practices to end them

We express our solidarity with peoples suffering armed conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, Latin America and Europe.

The Asian disaster showed the ability of those affected to overcome long standing rifts, as Aceh rebels put down their arms in common cause with the rest of Indonesia. By contrast, the disaster in New Orleans and elsewhere along America s Gulf Coast exposed and aggravated such rifts.

The new Human Rights Council should work for the promotion and protection of all human rights in a cooperative manner, while adopting a proactive approach to situations of armed conflict and foreign occupation.

Nevertheless, Africa is the site of many of the world s worst conflicts.

But they also assumed that unconscious, unresolved psychological conflicts caused depression.

Egypt calls on the Security Council to give particular attention to that problem when dealing with the causes of armed conflicts in Africa, because it is well known that the illegal exploitation of natural resources in conflict areas is a main cause of the persistence of armed conflicts.

6. Calls upon States and other parties to armed conflict to observe scrupulously the letter and the spirit of international humanitarian law, bearing in mind that armed conflict is one of the principal causes of forced displacement in Africa

4. Calls upon States and other parties to armed conflict to observe scrupulously the letter and the spirit of international humanitarian law, bearing in mind that armed conflict is one of the principal causes of forced displacement in Africa

Conflict prevention and recovery

In 2005, the International Committee of the Red Cross concluded that customary international law includes a ban on the use of chemical weapons in internal as well as international conflicts.

But innovation as a fundamental value explains the scientific breakthroughs of the West versus the East. It explains unavoidable conflicts with conservative non Western societies and it also explains what we should call the Westernization of the West.

They provide a means for interacting directly with NGOs on the ground, though sometimes the latter had been embedded in the conflicts for so long as to lose their independent perspectives.

How to develop the Council's own role in conflict prevention through more effective relations with regional organizations?

Fifth, we call on the Secretary General to give special attention to African conflicts, which cause enormous suffering to civilians.

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