Civil
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And if you're in this room today, most of us grew up in a world where we have basic
civil
rights, and amazingly, we still live in a world where some women don't have them.
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Today I want to talk to you about ethnic conflict and
civil
war.
Yet, not only is there at least some good news to be told about fewer such conflicts now than two decades ago, but what is perhaps more important is that we also have come to a much better understanding of what can be done to further reduce the number of ethnic conflicts and
civil
wars and the suffering that they inflict.
Civil
wars have made news headlines for many decades now, and ethnic conflicts in particular have been a near constant presence as a major international security threat.
In Sri Lanka, a decades-long
civil
war between the Tamil minority and the Sinhala majority led to a bloody climax in 2009, after perhaps as many as 100,000 people had been killed since 1983.
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