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Institutions like Human Rights Watch have repeatedly denounced the government’s rights violations and restrictions on civil liberties.
But if the never-ending peace process continues to fail to produce a two-state solution, how can Israel avoid the reality of a single state in a continuous state of civil war?
But the stakes are high; another failure could reignite civil conflict and all but destroy any remaining hope for reconciliation.
Better integration of ethnic minorities, with full respect for their human and civil rights, is essential to reducing the risk of a resurgence of ethnic violence – and to giving Burma’s transition a chance to succeed.
After two years of civil war, with no decisive military victory by either side in sight, the situation could not be more desperate.
And a robust civil society is a recipe for chronic bickering and conflict.
Other steps are needed to create habits of civil diplomacy around hot-button territorial claims.
When civil society -- the press, private business, religious and community groups -- is weak, corruption can go unchecked.
As a result, mainstream conservatives are more likely to compromise on principles that we have long taken for granted, such as civil equality and religious freedom.
For the struggle is not a clash of Islam vs. the West, but a civil war within Islam between a minority of terrorists and a larger mainstream of non-violent believers.
Fourth, laws are often arbitrarily applied, and sharia (Islamic law) frequently takes precedence over civil legislation, resulting in widespread impunity for crimes of violence against women.
A study by James Fearon of Stanford University and Anke Hoeffler of Oxford University’s Center for the Study of African Economies argues that societal violence – homicides and especially violence against women and children – is a much bigger problem than civil wars.
Nine people are killed in interpersonal violence for every battlefield death in a civil war, and one child is killed for every two combatants who die.
Compare this to the much lower cost of civil wars, which are equivalent to about 0.2% of global GDP.
Considerable amounts of aid are directed toward “fragile states” to help stop or prevent civil war, but only 0.27% of international aid goes to projects with a “crime prevention” component.
The focus has been on Europe’s response to the events that began in Tunisia and have since led to the fall of Egypt’s President Hosni Mubarak, unrest in Bahrain and Yemen, and now civil conflict in Libya.
Even when the AIDS crisis was ravaging Sub-Saharan Africa in the early 2000s, global patent rules were not just maintained, but actually tightened further, until pressure from civil society finally forced the expansion of access to affordable treatment.
Unlike EU members admitted during earlier rounds of enlargement, the Central Europeans suffer from widespread corruption, political nepotism, fragile political parties with unclear identities, and weak civil societies.
Only when we achieve a culture of compliance with humanitarian norms will we be able to establish the framework for securing a vibrant civil society, negotiation instead of conflict, and continuing human welfare.
But it also triggered civil war and regional turmoil (including ongoing Shia protests in Bahrain).
The only political space left for fascism was the petit bourgeoisie: shopkeepers, small businessmen, and low-level civil servants.
In the firing line are 120,000 civil service jobs.
A state that emphasizes security over civil rights and liberties is easily hijacked by security agencies.
India is fortunate to have thought leaders in almost every sector who could help unleash such innovation in partnership with the civil service.
Now, however, they have fueled a collective sense of outrage that demands civil disobedience as the only possible moral stance.
A civil war grips the French right, with a Euro MP grandson of Charles de Gaulle abandoning the Gaullists to join Jean-Marie Le Pen's National Front.
The common good, civil society: all were to be nourished in our post-communist democracies.
The Board actually predicted that its proposals would turn Puerto Rico’s recession into a depression of a magnitude seldom seen anywhere: a 16.2% decline in GNP in the next fiscal year (and a further decline the year after), which is comparable to the experience of countries undergoing civil wars, or that of crisis-ridden Venezuela.
And while those causes include political pressures – particularly the devastating civil wars in Syria and Iraq – the refugee flows also reflect the inability of the Middle East to produce the income growth that is lifting Asia, Latin America, and large parts of Sub-Saharan Africa out of poverty.
But they would offer a chance to begin addressing a tragic and avoidable consequence of the civil war: the exclusion of millions of people from the opportunity to earn a legal living for themselves and their families.
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