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If collective inaction prevails, we risk a return to the political and economic woes of the 1930’s, which paved the way to a devastating world conflict.
While personal ambitions certainly play a role in the tensions, what lies at the core is a fundamental conflict over Hamas’s character.
Despite all of these tensions, Asia has remained largely at peace, partly because no country has wanted to jeopardize economic growth by initiating a conflict.
As that happens, it becomes more likely that a disagreement or incident will escalate into a conflict.
A conflict between the US and China, in particular, could poison the single most important bilateral relationship of the twenty-first century.
A violent conflict in the past may survive as a war of memories in the present, as can be observed in the current dispute between China and South Korea on one side, and Japan on the other.
A war of memories, in turn, may sometimes lead to a violent conflict in the future.
List of priorities, outcome document from Copenhagen Consensus by UN ambassadors, June 16-17 2006 at Georgetown University:challengeopportunity1Communicable DiseasesScaled-up basic health services2Sanitation and WaterCommunity-managed water supply and sanitation3EducationPhysical expansion4Malnutrition and HungerImproving infant and child nutrition5Malnutrition and HungerInvestment in technology in developing country agriculture6Communicable DiseasesControl of HIV/AIDS7Communicable DiseasesControl of malaria8Malnutrition and HungerReducing micro nutrient deficiencies9Subsidies and Trade BarriersOptimistic Doha: 50% liberalization10EducationImprove quality / Systemic reforms11Sanitation and WaterSmall-scale water technology for livelihoods12EducationExpand demand for schooling13Malnutrition and HungerReducing Low Birth Weight for high risk pregnancies14EducationReductions in the cost of schooling to increase demand15Sanitation and WaterResearch to increase water productivity in food production16MigrationMigration for development17CorruptionProcurement reform18ConflictsAid post-conflict to reduce the risk of repeat conflict19Sanitation and WaterRe-using waste water for agriculture20MigrationGuest worker policies21Sanitation and WaterSustainable food and fish production in wetlands22CorruptionGrassroots monitoring and service delivery23CorruptionTechnical assistance to develop monitoring and transparency initiatives24MigrationActive immigration policies25Subsidies and Trade BarriersPessimistic Doha: 25% liberalization26CorruptionReduction in the state-imposed costs of business/government relations27Climate ChangeThe Kyoto Protocol28ConflictsAid as conflict prevention29CorruptionReform of revenue collection30Financial InstabilityInternational solution to the currency-mismatch problem31ConflictsTransparency in natural resource rents as conflict prevention32ConflictsMilitary spending post-conflict to reduce the risk of repeat conflict33Financial InstabilityRe-regulate domestic financial markets34ConflictsShortening conflicts: Natural resource tracking35Financial InstabilityReimpose capital controls36Financial InstabilityAdopt a common currency37Subsidies and Trade BarriersFull reform: 100% liberalization38Climate ChangeOptimal carbon tax39Climate ChangeValue-at-risk carbon tax40Climate ChangeA carbon tax starting at $2 and ending at $20The Eurozone According to MerkelBRUSSELS – We had almost given up waiting for them, but then they came in a quasi-clandestine form.
Territory that was once within the multi-ethnic, multi-state, multi-religious Ottoman Empire is again engulfed in conflict and war, stretching from Libya to Palestine-Israel, Syria, and Iraq.
The conflict in Northern Ireland was always territorial: not even the most radical Irish Republican group ever denied the legitimacy of Great Britain – only its rule over the six northern provinces of what they consider United Ireland.
The crux of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by contrast, only partly concerns Israel’s borders.
Even the most moderate leaders on both sides could not agree on the core issues of the conflict: borders, settlements, Jerusalem, and the fate of 1947-1948 Palestinian refugees and their descendants.
Catholics and Protestants in Ireland were killing each other for a century, but now that they are in the EU, they have recognized the idiocy of their conflict and the inevitability of reconciliation.
Traditionally, the US had vetoed such resolutions, though for some time now, administrations had taken the position that such settlements blocked progress on a two-state solution for the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Amid the chaos of camps, makeshift huts, and destitution, the fight for an important new principle of international aid has begun: even in times of conflict, children must have access to education.
A century and a half ago, the Red Cross established the norm that health care could – and should – be provided even in conflict zones.
We are appealing to donors not just to create thousands of school places for desperately needy children, but also to establish a precedent for the 20 million other children driven by violent conflict into displaced-persons camps and shantytowns.
There cannot be universal educational opportunity for the worlds’ children without an agreement that we will cater to children in conflict zones.
Many fear that this is only the beginning of a long conflict that could include weapons – and casualties – far outside the realm of trade.
There is also the prospect of the proliferation of chemical and biological weapons, which have already been used in the Syrian conflict both by President Bashar al-Assad’s regime and the Islamic State.
One key barrier to agreement is the perennial conflict over the appropriate burden of defense on national budgets – a conflict that is particularly intense in today’s environment of fiscal anxiety.
Israel, the stronger party in the conflict, prefers bilateral talks, which put it in a better position to dictate terms.
Any negotiator knows that the parties to a conflict will be reluctant to make compromises unless there is a price to pay if the talks fail.
Of course, throughout time, religion has often been part of a political conflict.
For Western societies – weighed down by credits, contracts, and other obligations – conflict is extremely costly, so they tend to resist it, and even turn on leaders who suggest it.
Their aim is to discourage the US and the Europeans from starting another crisis – financial markets and everyday politics in Europe can tolerate only so much conflict.
Moreover, Iran’s claim to leadership in the Muslim world is being undermined by the conflict in Iraq, where Iran supports the Shia militias that are killing Sunnis.
Colombia’s Gift to the WorldMADRID – After four long years of talks in Havana, Cuba, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has negotiated an end to successive governments’ armed conflict with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), the most resilient insurgent group in Latin America.
With the conditions for negotiations in place, Santos also had to address the root cause of the conflict.
Inevitably, the Colombian government’s transitional-justice regime to end the conflict and re-assimilate the FARC into the Colombian political process has some detractors, and has divided the Colombian electorate.
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