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If you look back at 2005, when you entered that office for the first time, what do you see? AG: Well, look: In 2005, we were helping one million people go back home in safety and dignity, because conflicts had ended.
At that time, we had had, recently, some conflicts that were solved.
Now, we see a multiplication of new conflicts and the old conflicts never died: Afghanistan, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo.
It is clear that the capacity of the international community to prevent conflicts and to timely solve them, is, unfortunately, much worse than what it was 10 years ago.
There are no clear power relations in the world, no global governance mechanisms that work, which means that we live in a situation where impunity and unpredictability tend to prevail, and that means that more and more people suffer, namely those that are displaced by conflicts.
These two major pitfalls, combined with more general dangers, such as conflicts of interest or selective use of data, can make the findings of any particular epidemiological study suspect, and a good study must go out of its way to prove that its authors have taken steps to eliminate these types of errors.
If that sounds familiar, it's because the historical conflicts known as the Wars of the Roses served as the basis for much of the drama in Game of Thrones.
We often think of historical wars as decisive conflicts with clearly defined winners and losers.
If there's only one group arguing, both others must be telling the truth, and if there are two conflicts, then the possessed students are in separate groups and you can safely trust the majority in both trios since at least two people in each will be truthful.
The other thing was that conflicts decreased.
There were many conflicts on the continent.
New types of conflicts have emerged, and I'll refer to those later.
We also need to be wary of new conflicts, new types of conflicts, such as we have with Boko Haram in my country, Nigeria, and with Al-Shabaab in Kenya.
This creates tensions and serious conflicts.
This lethal weapon has been used by over 20 states during armed conflicts in over 35 countries, such as Ukraine, Iraq and Sudan.
Cluster bombs have reportedly been used most recently in the ongoing conflicts in Yemen and Syria.
We feel much the same way about other conflicts around the world.
In a study of 323 major political conflicts from 1900 to 2006, Maria Stephan and Erica Chenoweth found that nonviolent campaigns were almost 100 percent more likely to lead to success than violent campaigns.
At age fifteen, Anna married Nikephoros Bryennios to quell old conflicts between their families and strengthen Alexios’s reign.
But whenever their presence seriously conflicts with one of our goals, let's say when constructing a building like this one, we annihilate them without a qualm.
I soon witnessed boys like them killing one another in conflicts between rival groups.
Children being used, cynically exploited; people dying in conflicts which I was supporting in the name of jihad.
Until we stop armed conflicts raging throughout the world, families will continue to be displaced, leaving children vulnerable.
And here's another example: conflicts of interest.
Through the darkness of today's conflicts, each and every one of us can become a bright candle, a reminder that light will overcome darkness, and never the other way around.
We even have differences and conflicts.
I wanted to take that into the realm of images, and I decided to make things that had the same identity conflicts.
Instead of just knowledge of this park, he created an understanding and an empathy for the elephants, the rangers and the many issues surrounding human-wildlife conflicts.
Those same issues of conflicts of interest are acute in the United States today.
So, that's one general conclusion about why societies make bad decisions: conflicts of interest.
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