In the emerging struggle between the region s Shia and Sunni powers, the old Middle East conflict has become a sideshow.

We live in a world where the clear distinction between conflict among States and conflict within States has become blurred.

Conflict grew ever bloodier in Syria, continued to grind on in Afghanistan, and flared up periodically in West, Central, and East Africa.

The rise in the number of casualties among humanitarian staff operating in conflict and post conflict situations was alarming.

Nor is China interested in stirring up the conflict between its Pakistani allies and its Indian rivals.

Following the revolution, factional struggle within the MOI became public.

The Armenian Azerbaijani struggle is more precarious.

Things have also started to move in a third area the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians.

The ongoing conflict between Iran s rulers and the Iranian public is the result of a head on collision between two contradictory forces.

There is also the ongoing conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinians, as well as strains between Israel and Turkey.

So the struggle between democratic and anti democratic tendencies is becoming acute.

The Sudan firmly believes that the idea of a clash of civilizations is a fallacy.

American policy has also contributed to a growing conflict between Islamist and secular forces in Muslim countries.

These forces fully comprehend that the most important global contest today is between radical Islamism and the rest of the world.

The referendum campaign in Ireland has seen a resurgence of conflict between a familiar constellation of forces.

Then there is sectarianism, particularly the growing strife between Sunni and Shia Muslims.

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

Conflict has also escalated along the Myanmar Bangladesh border.

It certainly has some of the characteristics of a confrontation between Arabs and Africans.

In fact, the often assumed conflict between freedom and public security does not exist.

Between March 2 and July 26, 1992, the conflict escalated into a military engagement.

Conflict among the British, Dutch, and French continued throughout the seventeenth century.

Unlike in the West, intergenerational conflict played a minor role in the Polish 1968.

It is against this backdrop that the latest contest between India and China must be assessed.

One example of an evolutionary arms race is in sexual conflict between the sexes.

The European Union fully recognizes the need to bridge the gap in United Nations machinery that exists between the end of armed conflict and the resumption of sustainable development through post conflict peacebuilding.

The struggle between religion and state in the Maghreb is less violent, but potentially explosive nonetheless.

As always, the Palestinian Israeli conflict stands perched between diplomacy and violence.

Here, however, there is the added difficulty of a potential conflict between regional politics and national democratic processes.

Perhaps the greatest threat to the bilateral relationship is the belief that conflict is inevitable.

Isabella arrived in England at the age of 12 during a period of growing conflict between the king and the powerful baronial factions.

The war is named after the Ottawa leader Pontiac, the most prominent of many native leaders in the conflict.

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

FS The ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine reportedly includes information warfare , such as use of propaganda and counterpropaganda.

This led to internecine and intra Kurdish conflict and warfare between 1994 and 1996.

In fact, conflict between Russia and China is possible precisely in Central Asia, given the clear differences in the two countries economic and political interests in that region.

This conflict may be exacerbated by the outcome in Syria.

The devastating and widening conflict in Syria does not present any good choices, only choices between bad and worse.

Social change, for Marx, was about conflict between opposing interests, driven, in the background, by economic forces.

Post conflict transition, recovery and reconstruction cannot be achieved if gender equality and the promotion of women's rights are absent.

Rather, it is the conflict between these practices and traditional or domestic social relations and practices that entrench vested interests opposed to change.

In a way, a unilateral declaration of independence would make the Israeli Palestinian conflict a bit more like the Israeli Syrian conflict an inter state conflict.

Written between 1895 and 1897, it is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race.

The latest eruption of violent conflict between Hamas and Israel underscores the importance of reviving the peace process.

The Russia Georgia conflict represents the first significant cyber attacks accompanying armed conflict.