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Conflict prevention and human-rights protection are primarily the responsibility of states, and it is increasingly recognized that businesses must play their part as well.
Since 2010, companies working in conflict areas have had a global standard at their disposal.
Developed in close collaboration with the industry, it offers “detailed recommendations to help companies respect human rights and avoid contributing to conflict through their mineral purchasing decisions and practices.”
In 2013, Dutch researchers surveyed 186 companies listed on European stock exchanges that make use of conflict minerals.
More than 80% made no mention on their Web sites of what they had done to avoid funding conflict or human rights abuses.
Similarly, the European Commission’s Directorate General for Trade found that only 7% of 153 EU companies refer to a due-diligence policy for conflict minerals in their annual reports or on their Web sites.
But funding conflict and human-rights abuses is not an acceptable cost of doing business.
The social consequences can also be severe: eviction, the loss of livelihoods, and violent conflict.
Obama and his top advisers have spoken regularly about the need to address the underlying sources of conflict, including poverty and unemployment.
It did not, however, bring about any progress toward resolving the outstanding issues underlying the dispute between Israel and Hamas, or change the conditions that spurred the latest conflict in the first place.
For its part, the international community must embrace Hamas’s involvement in the pursuit of a peaceful settlement of the Palestine-Israel conflict.
It is time for all of the relevant actors in the conflict between Israel and Palestine to address this challenge, and to take concrete, productive, and creative action to bring peace to Gaza at last.
Most people need a communal identity, but it may well be better to find it in one’s attachment to a city than in attachment to a country that is armed and willing to engage in conflict with enemies.
Lugo’s downfall was precipitated by the collapse of his legislative majority in the political fallout over a land conflict in the eastern district of Curuguaty.
It is no coincidence that a land conflict provided the fodder for the trumped-up impeachment charges against Lugo.
Today’s efforts to expand regional infrastructure projects are all the more remarkable for linking even countries locked in diplomatic, and sometimes open, conflict.
But prices are already rising at a 20% annual pace, which, if unchecked, will lead to conflict with the powerful Peronist unions.
Even if all of the world’s nuclear-weapon states embrace the vision of a world free of the threat of nuclear conflict, nuclear weapons will remain with us for two decades at least, and even that would require the most favorable conditions for disarmament.
China is militarily self-sufficient and needs military cooperation under the SCO framework only in order to free its hands if any conflict should arise that affects its interests.
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.
Aside from control of the region’s energy supplies, water has become a potential source of conflict, given China’s serious shortages.
Even speedier action is needed to solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, both for its own sake, and because its repercussions destabilize other parts of the world.
The question arising from the end of this conflict is this: what are likely to be the intellectually and emotionally mobilizing forces of political discourse in the future?
American-Chinese relationships, in addition to their impact on Russia, have a significance, for the stability of North-East Asia where there is a potential for conflict and they will help to define how Japan defines its own role in international affairs as a major power, not only economically, but also over time, politically and militarily.
Putin also suggested – despite all the evidence to the contrary – that Russia’s presence in Syria would not extend beyond the resolution of the conflict.
By intervening in Syria – a conflict of primary concern to Europe and the US – the Kremlin feels it has acquired leverage over Ukraine’s Western partners.
What the Kingdom has reacted to in Yemen is Iran’s cynical efforts to take advantage of Yemen’s internal conflict to build a military alliance with the Houthi rebels – an alliance with only one conceivable target: Saudi Arabia.
Western commentators, in particular, have twisted themselves into knots to avoid recognizing any Iranian involvement in the conflict, even as evidence to the contrary has mounted.
And, unfortunately, Yemeni civilians have paid a high price, with an estimated 10,000 killed since the conflict began.
It is a truly horrific situation that highlights the urgency of defeating the Houthis and ending the conflict in Yemen.
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