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| | Darfur conflict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | However, it is currently undecided whether prosecution will commence via the International Criminal Court, or via a provisional tribunal, such as the one used after the ethnic conflicts in Rwanda and in the Balkans. | | | The Darfur Conflict is an ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited from local Arab tribes, and the non-Arab peoples of the region. | | | On 23 July 2004, the United States Senate and House of Representatives passed a joint resolution declaring the armed conflict in the Sudanese region of Darfur to be genocide and calling on the Bush administration to lead an international effort to put a stop to it. |
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| | Deconstructing Conflict |
| | Desire for conflict is not a precondition and both parties may reluctantly enter into the ideological contest. | | | When conflict is warranted and engagement becomes probable, the probability of success is exponentially increased by full preparation for the contact. | | | Thus…When conflict is warranted and engagement becomes probable, the probability of success is exponentially increased by full preparation for the contact. |
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| | Conflict |
| | In order to resolve a conflict where the opposing parties are at opposite extremes on an issue, there is a need to come to the middle if all are to experience a ``winning'' posture. | | | Step 7: Once a jointly owned conflict resolution is decided upon, the parties set an implementation time and an evaluation procedure to determine if the resolution is successful in averting similar conflict(s). | | | To succeed in resolving conflict, all parties must feel like they have gained in the resolution. |
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| | Fiction Factor - Conflict in Fiction |
| | Yet not all conflict must be gut-wrenching, wrist-slashing, eye-popping suspense. | | | Because the romantic conflict is the primary conflict, it cannot be resolved until the end of the story. | | | Conflict in a story does not have to be light sabers or laser guns, automatic weapons or explosions. |
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| | ConflictResearch.org - A Comprehensive Gateway to the Websites of the University of Colorado |
| | "The Meaning of Civility," by Conflict Research Consortium Co-Directors Guy and Heidi Burgess, discusses the definition and application of civility as it relates to disputes, particularly those that occur in the realm of public policy. | | | The Civil Rights Mediation Oral History Project is a joint project involving the Consortium and Conflict Management Initiatives of Evanston, Illinois. | | | The University of Colorado Conflict Research Consortium, directed by Guy and Heidi Burgess, was founded in 1988 as a multi-disciplinary center for research and teaching about conflict and its transformation. |
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| | Relationship Conflict. Marriage and Conflict Resolution Issues at The Savvy Male |
| | This type of conflict has no "real-time" psycho-spiritual growth potential for either party, and because of the negative issues that drive this control oriented conflict, the damage that occurs often ends the relationship. | | | This type of conflict is driven by subconscious insecurities and has the highest percentage of "selective amnesia" when it comes to a person taking responsibility for their controlling behavior. | | | Conflict that doesn't follow a "code of engagement" is doomed to be destructive. |
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http://www.savvymale.com/conflict.html
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| | Darfur conflict - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | However, it is currently undecided whether prosecution will commence via the International Criminal Court, or via a provisional tribunal, such as the one used after the ethnic conflicts in Rwanda and in the Balkans. | | | The Darfur Conflict is an ongoing conflict in the Darfur region of western Sudan, mainly between the Janjaweed, a militia group recruited from local Arab tribes, and the non-Arab peoples of the region. | | | The conflict in Darfur began in February 2003 when JEM and SLM rebels attacked government forces and installations. |
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darfur_conflict
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| | classless-society.txt |
| | Conflict over control of the state is the phenomenal form of the first well documented class conflict. | | | Class conflict is the historical consequence/form of structural contradictions. | | | By defining the task partially, the work only gets partially done. |
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http://eserver.org/govt/classless-society.txt
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| | Conflict resolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding The Center for Justice and Peacebuilding at Eastern Mennonite University was one of the first Masters programs in conflict resolution and is the largest recipient of Fulbright Scholars in conflict resolution. | | | Conflict resolution or conflictology is the process of resolving a dispute or a conflict. | | | Conflict resolution usually involves two or more groups with opposing views regarding specific issues, and another group or individual who is considered to be neutral in their opinion on the subject. |
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| | Law of Armed Conflict |
| | The Law of armed conflict is used in addition to the Uniform Code of Military Justice by the United States of America to enforce certain obligations of conduct and behavior on individual members of its Armed Forces. | | | The Law of armed conflict neither authorizes nor prohibits the basic decision to use force. | | | However, insurgents and the state's armed forces in internal disputes are generally coerced by the international community to abide by the law of armed conflict when there is a general civil war involving sustained armed conflict and the insurgents control a significant portion of national territory. |
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| | Conflict Diamonds |
| | JA Draft Letters to Congress on Conflict Diamonds Bills | | | Arrest Warrant Issued For Russian Conflict Diamonds Trader | | | JA Member Letter Urging Support of Conflict Diamonds Bills |
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| | Prevention of armed conflict 2001 |
| | Conflict prevention is at the heart of the mandate of the United Nations. | | | Conflict prevention is one of the primary obligations of Member States set forth in the Charter of the United nations, and the United Nations efforts in conflict prevention must be in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter | | | In this regard, the means described in the Charter for the peaceful settlement of disputes are an important instrument for conflict prevention, including such means as negotiation, enquiry, mediation, conciliation, arbitration, judicial settlement or other peaceful means, as set forth in Article 33 of the Charter. |
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| | THE CONFLICT OF AGES |
| | The conflict arises with the legislation of law that is at an intolerable variance with the convictions of the individual. | | | The military is thus designed to serve in the best interests of the state as defined by the ruling party, and to violently defend the ideals that the state represents. | | | The use of a military to fulfill the objectives of God in imposing His penalty on disobedient nations was only temporary. |
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| | Kosovo & Yugoslavia: Law in Crisis |
| | International and/or national courts consider legal aspects of the conflict over Kosovo... | | | Conflict or Dialogue: Serbian-Albanian Relations and the Integration of the Balkans. | | | Law professors and other academics offer their comments on legal and related aspects of the Kosovo conflict... |
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http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/kosovo.htm
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| | Copyright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Once the term of a copyright has expired, the formerly copyrighted work enters the public domain and may be freely used or exploited by anyone, as courts in the United States and the United Kingdom have rejected the doctrine of a common law copyright. | | | Copyrights are generally enforced by the holder in a civil law court, but there are also criminal infringement statutes. | | | A copyright notice is no longer required for a work to be covered by copyright in jurisdictions which have acceded to the Berne Convention. |
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| | Social class - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Social Class in America: A Manual of Procedure for the Measurement of Social Status. | | | Marx saw class categories as defined by continuing historical processes. | | | Party class refers to factors having to do with affiliations in the political domain |
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| | MARXISM AND CLASS CONFLICT |
| | At issue is whether it is authority or property relations that provide the most basic vehicle for understanding class conflict. | | | Marx's emphasis on class conflict as constituting the dynamics of social change, his awareness that change was not random but the outcome of a conflict of interests, and his view of social relations as based on power were contributions of the first magnitude. | | | Class struggle or conflict, the active opposition of classes, is of course the meat of class theories. |
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| | Conflict Management |
| | Conflict Management is taught to all incoming freshman in a 2-week workshop, and mediation is a required course in the Criminal Justice Program. | | | Student Legal Services Office offers conflict management services in the form of mediation for disputes, negotiation for resolution for students and negotiation and judicial processes for students in landlord/tenant issues. | | | University Ombudsman offers conflict management services in the form of mediation for individuals, negotiations, settling disputes or resolving issues, arbitration and judicial processes. |
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| | OJPCR: The Online Journal of Peace and Conflict Resolution |
| | Conflict prevention is a political act with political ramifications...Third parties must recognize that they are at risk of becoming part of the conflict when agendas are cloaked under the blanket of neutrality" (Carment and James, The United Nations at 50, 78). | | | A close and ongoing relationship must exist between the third state and the parties in conflict, a relationship strong enough that its denial could be used as a threat to keep the negotiating parties in line. | | | Ethnic conflict is over the right to have an identity, the right to claim certain symbols as one’s own, the right to be equal to others, and often the right to exist. |
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| | Non-discrimination and armed conflict |
| | Proof of this view was most recently given by the inclusion of war crimes committed in internal armed conflict within the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court (ICC), and in subsequent work done by the UN Preparatory Commission on the ICC to define the elements of such crimes. | | | It provides that humane treatment and non-discrimination are the basic principles which must guide the behaviour of the parties to the conflict vis-à-vis persons not taking part in it, and presents a list of rules which, according to the International Court of Justice, are an expression of “elementary considerations of humanity” [6]. | | | It also contains a series of detailed provisions on judicial guarantees that must be observed in criminal proceedings against persons suspected of an offence related to the armed conflict, as well as principles that shall apply in the prosecution and trial of persons accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity. |
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| | 4. Settlement of ethnic conflicts in post-Soviet society |
| | Such instruments include: economic stimuli and sanctions; information, dialogue among the conflicting parties; creation and effective enforcement of laws in the sphere of ethnic policy, etc. | | | However, massive ethnic conflicts caused by an all-round crisis of society are a different matter; such conflicts need to be dealt with in a comprehensive way using a multitude of different control levers. | | | The main drawback of both current and tactical settlements of inter ethnic conflicts is that they are poorly coordinated with general inter ethnic strategy, both in individual CIS countries and in the Commonwealth as a whole. |
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| | Anti-copyright - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The argument that copyright law protects and encourages development is seen by many as hype intended to provide moral justification for laws which in fact are there to protect the incomes and wealth of copyright holders, many of whom are not the original developers anyway. | | | The loss of revenue and loss of value of copyrighted assets by individual and corporate vested interests caused by the advent of file sharing has led to legal action by representatives of copyright holders against consumers percieved by them to have infringed on their copyright. | | | Such statements are legally required because, under the Berne Convention in international copyright law, works are protected even if no copyright statement is attached to them. |
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| | Children and Armed Conflict |
| | As the Security Council discussed during deliberations last fall on the conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, it is especially important that humanitarian access by state or non-state actors be allowed consistent with humanitarian law. | | | In the Interlaken Declaration of November 5, 2002, the United States joined 47 other governments pledging to eliminate conflict diamonds from international trade through the implementation of a global rough diamond certification system. | | | As I noted, explicitly naming governments and armed groups that recruit or use child soldiers in violation of their international obligations can be a powerful tool in our efforts to protect children in armed conflict. |
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| | Reason |
| | The study, which appears in the premiere issue of the Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, examines fees and client recoveries in 370 class actions recorded in court decisions from 1993 to 2002. | | | Eisenberg and Miller found that "the amount of client recovery is overwhelmingly the most important determinant of the attorneys' fee award." That may seem fair, but it's not when damages are absurdly high, or when a settlement is a payoff to make the lawsuit go away rather than appropriate compensation for real injuries. | | | A few years ago, the Blockbuster video chain settled a class action that accused it of charging inappropriate late fees. |
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| | Report of the Expert Seminar on Racism, Refugees and |
| | Racism and ethnic conflicts were major causes of forced displacement and ethnic tensions were often exploited, deliberately fostered and exacerbated to further political objectives. | | | Racial discrimination and ethnic practices by the State such as bans on the use of languages, immigration policies, and State policies of racial and ethnic classification (such as in South Africa under apartheid, or in Rwanda) often instigated the conflicts that generated refugees. | | | Until the International Criminal Court has authority to act in cases of genocide, any contracting party to the Convention for the Suppression and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide should be encouraged to take the initiative to invoke article VIII of the Convention, whenever "direct or public incitement to commit genocide" (art. |
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| | CRInfo: The Conflict Resolution Information Source - |
| | Copyright © 1999-2004 The Conflict Resolution Information Source | | | Community Dispute Resolution - Court ADR - Education - Evaluation - Family - Intractable Conflict - Mediation - Monitoring - Online Dispute Resolution (ODR) - Peacebuilding - Restorative Justice - Student and Youth Conflict - Workplace Conflict | | | Nova Southeastern University's Department of Conflict Analysis and Resolution (DCAR) offers one of the nation's premier graduate programs for the study of peace and conflict. |
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| | Conflict of laws - definition of Conflict of laws in Encyclopedia |
| | In the United States private international law is almost invariably called conflict of laws as each state jurisdiction is considered a separate state under American law and calling it international law would definitely be confusing. | | | When the court must consider the foreign law it must be proved by foreign law experts and cannot merely be pleaded as the court has no expertise in the laws of foreign countries or how they might be applied in a foreign court. | | | Private international law comprises provisions of national law regarding contracts and lawsuits involving foreign laws or jurisdictions. |
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| | [Regents Prep Global History] Conflict: Introduction |
| | Conflict is defined as an irreconcilable contention between two or more parties. | | | Bronowski, in his book The Ascent of Man, refers to war as nothing more than "an organized effort at theft." Conflict through the ages has shaped us into what and who we are today. | | | Conflict does not only consist of clashes between people, but can also include ideological differences between religions, ethnicities, and political groups. |
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