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And in recent decades, a lot of the funding for shop class has gone away entirely.
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.
For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.
Over the past two decades, since the end of the Cold War, there has been an overall decline in the number of civil wars.
Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.
But in the last few decades that has totally changed.
Such that every four days, somewhere in the American South, every four days an African American was lynched for some perceived breach of protocol in this caste system in the decades leading up to the start of the Great Migration.
Over several decades, South Korea built one of the most patriarchal societies we know about.
So I'm sitting here looking at the next two decades of my life, this chasm of happiness that we're driving our proverbial convertible straight into.
Psychologists have known this for decades, and it's time for policymakers to start paying attention and listen to psychologists a little bit, instead of economists.
Again, Bandura recognized this years ago, decades ago.
The other thing that's worth considering is that we've made a huge investment over decades and decades, and tens of billions of dollars have gone into this investment that now is our inheritance.
And that regime that we got rid of was actually a dictatorship, an authoritarian regime, that for decades created a great sense of paralysis within the nation, within the people themselves.
So after decades of lawsuits and 140 years, now, of experience, we still have this.
In October of 2014, I returned to Lagos, Nigeria, after over three decades away and took photographs of 64 Nollywood personalities.
This is the result of heroic efforts over decades by teams from a variety of countries and international collaborations.
However, all of this that took decades to produce is just one snapshot of the subsurface.
And I think what is remarkable that has happened over the past couple of years is that, over the past couple of decades, we went from the physical world to the digital one.
And this is an insight that came, about two decades ago, from a person that I'm very fortunate to work with, David Kaplan.
And so I started in schools, because suspensions and expulsions have been fueling the pathway to prison for decades.
And then to make the matters even worse, the virus started to spread out of these four places, especially northern India and northern Nigeria, into much of Africa, Asia, and even into Europe, causing horrific outbreaks in places that had not seen this disease for decades.
That's why the Ottoman Empire, in its last decades, turned into a proto-democracy, a constitutional monarchy, and freedom was a very important political value at the time.
Secondly, in the past two decades, thanks to globalization, thanks to the market economy, thanks to the rise of a middle class, we in Turkey see what I define as a rebirth of Islamic modernism.
In the decades to come, 75 percent of the world's population will live in cities, and 50 of those cities will be of 10 million people or more.
One of the senior doctors at my hospital, Charlie Safran, and his colleague, Warner Slack, have been saying for decades that the most underutilized resource in all of health care is the patient.
Fast-forward more than two decades: Apple launches the iPhone in China and censors the Dalai Lama out along with several other politically sensitive applications at the request of the Chinese government for its Chinese app store.
It was the result of decades of sustained activism, shareholder advocacy and consumer advocacy.
Well my personal story, my personal journey, what brings me to the TED stage here today, is a demonstration of exactly what's been happening in Muslim-majority countries over the course of the last decades, at least, and beyond.
Whereas Islamists and far-right organizations, for decades, have been building demand for their ideology on the grassroots.
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