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Meanwhile, the international community collectively fails to protect vast populations of vulnerable migrants, such as the millions stranded by the recent conflicts in North Africa.
Anecdotal evidence shows that many of the parties in the various conflicts are using children to fight their wars.
The basic principle of non-discrimination is at risk: once trading countries negotiate separately with each other, various forms of discrimination become inevitable, giving rise to various kinds of conflicts.
Today, some 1.5 million displaced people live in the country, and that number is only likely to increase as regional conflicts intensify.
A couple of weeks later, I was faced with one of those conflicts: a board meeting here, a conference there, another opportunity at the same time somewhere else.
Individuals and peoples are capable of enduring difficulties if there is a sense that the future will be better and conflicts resolved.
America's Securities and Exchange Commission's head recognized the problems posed by conflicts of interests in accounting, but his efforts to put in place rules to address the problem met with overwhelming resistance from the industry--until the scandals made change irresistible.
To be sure, there are costs in imposing such restrictions -- they may, for example, deter qualified individuals from accepting public employment -- and the restrictions seldom eliminate conflicts of interest altogether.
Conflicts of interest will never be eliminated, either in the public or private sector.
As the cultural psychologist Richard Shweder notes, circumcision has featured in conflicts between Europeans and Middle Easterners for centuries.
It has broadly ensured global peace, although at the cost of shifting many conflicts to the periphery.
Of course, politicians incite many of these conflicts, using caste, sect, and religion--not political ideas--to build voter loyalty.
He described it as a means for creating a “fusion of interests…that will be the leavening from which may grow a wider and deeper community between countries long opposed to one another by bloody conflicts.”
Owing to its success in settling other longstanding national conflicts, the EU was tasked with bridging the region’s longstanding nationalist divides and quelling its ethnic conflicts.
Still, the conflicts between a hyper-globalized economy and social cohesion are real, and mainstream political elites ignore them at their peril.
Understanding the risks of excessive private-sector borrowing, the inadequacy of private lenders’ credit assessments, and the conflicts of interest that are endemic in banks, Sub-Saharan countries should impose constraints on such borrowing, especially when there are significant exchange-rate and maturity mismatches.
The Iraq conflict, by contrast, is part of the world’s first global insurgency – the web of individual conflicts spawned by Islamist extremism, most of them related in some way to al Qaeda, and the global war on terrorism.
Finally, and most important, let us hope that terrorism is thwarted everywhere, conflicts subside, democracy and capitalism regain some momentum, and greater civility and honest dialogue return to the public domain.
It explains unavoidable conflicts with conservative non-Western societies and it also explains what we should call ‘the Westernization of the West.’
The most essential questions that humans face today – those that engender the deepest conflicts – have nothing to do with theology.
We conceive of politics as a mechanism to reconcile enduring conflicts, such as those that exist between freedom and security.
This does not mean that international cooperation has become impossible, much less that countries have no choice but to steel themselves for a coming age of dysfunctional alliances, proxy conflicts, or even war.
Building the institutions of a market economy should be the main focus, not alignment with expensive EU standards in food production or the environment;The EU should gradually phase out its Common Agricultural Policy, which primarily benefits owners of large farms, and instead develop new instruments of financial assistance for its own poor regions and its new neighbours;Current EU members and successful candidate countries could make available large-scale training programmes in market-relevant disciplines for the young generation in CIS countries;Taking as a model the Stability Pact in the Balkans, the EU could offer concrete incentives, such as economic assistance and the prospect of closer integration, to stimulate parties to end unresolved regional conflicts in the Caucasus, Transdniestria and Central Asia;The main actors providing international assistance - including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, EBRD, the EU itself and the United Nations Development Programme - should ensure a minimum level of co-ordination to avoid duplication and waste.
Despite the PiS’s constant nepotism scandals and ongoing conflicts with the EU, the judiciary, and business and civil-society groups, its support has not fallen below 35%.
After many years of conflicts, with the memories of the martial law of 1981 still fresh in the minds of most Poles, a policy of national reconciliation was a crucial element of our program.
While we rejoice in our successes, however, we have long recognized that our future is tied to our neighbors’ challenges, whether they include military conflicts, as was true 20 years ago, or hunger and disease, as is the case today.
Of course, no one should infer from the Libyan case that other SWFs across the board are riddled with corruption and conflicts of interest.
The same is true regarding the conflicts in Syria, Libya, Israel-Palestine, Yemen, and elsewhere.
Throughout its history, Europe saw countless bloody conflicts; peoples and states clashed, with the Czech lands often the bloody crossroads of these battles.
The Gaza TrapTEL AVIV – Israel’s “Operation Protective Edge” against Hamas in Gaza is the kind of asymmetrical warfare that has characterized nearly all Middle East conflicts in recent years.
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