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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.
Since the high in the early 1990s, with about 50 such civil wars ongoing, we now have 30 percent fewer such conflicts today.
So, we have fewer conflicts today in which fewer people get killed.
Finding that 18th camel in the world's conflicts has been my life passion.
So let me conclude, then, by saying that in the last 35 years, as I've worked in some of the most dangerous, difficult and intractable conflicts around the planet, I have yet to see one conflict that I felt could not be transformed.
For 10 years, unfortunately we have found ourselves reporting images of destruction, images of killing, of sectarian conflicts, images of violence, emerging from a magnificent piece of land, a region that one day was the source of civilizations and art and culture for thousands of years.
On this map, the colored areas represent water conflicts.
And I'm sure you all know, this has created significant conflicts between the agricultural and environmental communities.
Which leads to conflicts all around the oil resources.
And we really had only two options for dealing with the conflicts that visual theft would bring.
But you know, these stories, and lots of other experiments that we've done on conflicts of interest, basically kind of bring two points to the foreground for me.
Because we don't see how conflicts of interest work on us.
And I think the real challenge is to figure out where are the cases in our lives where conflicts of interest work on us, and try not to trust our own intuition to overcome it, but to try to do things that prevent us from falling prey to these behaviors, because we can create lots of undesirable circumstances.
In a major article published in 1978, Professor Robert Jervis of Columbia University in New York described a model to understand how conflicts could arise.
And if we are down to three or four conflicts, it means that there are plenty of opportunities to invest in stable, growing, exciting economies where there's plenty of opportunity.
Whether the Egyptians and Tunisians will make it through the transition, or this will end in bloody ethnic and religious conflicts, whether the Syrians will maintain nonviolent discipline, faced with a brutal daily violence which kills thousands already, or they will slip into violent struggle and make ugly civil war.
We who are diplomats, we are trained to deal with conflicts between states and issues between states.
Let me show you a slide here which illustrates the character of conflicts since 1946 until today.
The red is modern conflict, conflicts within states.
And the way they deal with their conflicts rapidly spreads to other countries.
Another acknowledgment we've seen during these years, recent years, is that very few of these domestic interstate, intrastate conflicts can be solved militarily.
If we're going to deal with political conflict-solving of conflicts, if we're going to understand these new groups which are coming from bottom-up, supported by technology, which is available to all, we diplomats cannot be sitting back in the banquets believing that we are doing interstate relations.
We're constantly creating tensions and conflicts.
Have you constructed honest conflicts with truth that creates doubt in what the outcome might be?
And we suspect that this may help to explain why older people are better than younger people at solving hotly charged emotional conflicts and debates.
Many think that Afghanistan here and Congo, which have suffered severe conflicts, that they don't have fast population growth.
So in an attempt to prepare their men for any future conflicts, they founded the National Rifle Association to promote rifle practice.
Let's empower women and give our young boys a chance to learn how to work out their conflicts and emotions with words, not weapons.
Will there be tensions over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?
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