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Violence in sentence

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In Georgia, after years of stalemate, we saw a full-scale resurgence of violence in August, 2008.
In Kyrgyzstan, just over the last few weeks, unprecedented levels of violence occurred between ethnic Kyrgyz and ethnic Uzbeks.
And in Iraq, finally, violence is on the rise again, and the country has yet to form a government four months after its last parliamentary elections.
Despite centuries of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.
Unresolved boundary issues, squabbles over oil revenues, the ongoing conflict in Darfur, escalating tribal violence in the south and generally weak state capacity across all of Sudan complete a very depressing picture of the state of affairs in Africa's largest country.
The failure to achieve a negotiated solution for Kosovo and the violence, tension and de facto partition that resulted from it have their reasons in many, many different factors.
For me personally, the most critical lesson of all is this: Local commitment to peace is all-important, but it is often not enough to prevent or end violence.
Frequently, grandparents are raising their grandchildren because parents, due to alcoholism, domestic violence and general apathy, cannot raise them.
This artificial hierarchy, because it goes against human desires to be free, required a tremendous amount of violence to maintain.
We see that as an equation that equals violence against women.
You see, we have to come to understand that less value, property and objectification is the foundation and the violence can't happen without it.
The center for disease control says that men's violence against women is at epidemic proportions, is the number one health concern for women in this country and abroad.
They're nervous about anything that has anything to do with violence because of the zero tolerance policies.
But my head unwraps around what appears limitless, man's creative violence.
Sickness, health, tender violence.
Coming from a history of sexual violence, slavery and a lack of bodily autonomy.
But if these queer women can come out of a history of, again, sexual violence, slavery, colonization and all manner of traditional, religious and cultural pitfalls, to reconceptualize what sex and pleasure means to them, then you can do it, too.
Well, it's one in which it's natural to be afraid, to be frightened of this surveillance, this violence against our bodies and what we wear on them.
Do you believe, and can you tell us why, there is going to be a significant shift in things like violence and peace and conflict and resolution on a sustainable basis?
Well that's not surprising, but we also asked them to judge them on honesty, intelligence, friendliness, violence.
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.
No violence.
The stability and security of authoritarian regimes cannot create but terrorism and violence and destruction.
But the values of democracy and the freedom of choice that is sweeping the Middle East at this moment in time is the best opportunity for the world, for the West and the East, to see stability and to see security and to see friendship and to see tolerance emerging from the Arab world, rather than the images of violence and terrorism.
I'm not interested in filming the violence and the weapons.
You might have seen images about the post-election violence that happened there in 2008.
And then I met some who were angry, and anger that can turn to violence, and we're all familiar with that.
We do not believe in violence.
No violence, no bombs, no guns.
Violence leads to violence, at least in my view.
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