The U.S. government is using legislation to try to curb the market for conflict minerals.
There are now roughly 500 groups registered by the European Platform for Conflict Prevention and Transformation.
Local economic grievances are often common across a region, as are sources of international funding for conflict.
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To be sure, there are global legal questions that present an opportunity for conflict among different legal systems.
Our reluctance for conflict should not be misjudged as a failure of will.
Deutsche is less stodgy than it was when it bought Morgan Grenfell, but there is still scope for conflict.
"The FDA has a pretty high threshold for conflict of interest, " says Sidney Wolfe, of the watchdog group Public Citizen.
Otherwise, given the potential for conflict, many deals would never get done.
The report places great emphasis on the regional framework for conflict resolution and economic planning, privileging it over local, national and international frameworks.
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The opportunity for conflict is certainly there, as is the fear that Sun could just walk away if it all gets too complicated.
Each side blamed each other for the conflict but an eight-month European Union-commissioned inquiry concluded that both sides shared the blame for the conflict.
And, coordination with the IMF might be a problem - a regional body could create the potential for conflict in the international financial system.
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But Hall says that auditing a supply chain for conflict minerals would only increase the price of a cell phone, for example, by a penny.
For conflict to exist, there must be at least two points of view, or stories, between which we are undecided as to which to believe.
Youth engagement in planning education for conflict transformation and peace building.
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Wise practices for conflict prevention and resolution in small islands.
But she warned peers of the potential for conflict ahead, saying: "I don't believe it would be any victory to defeat these proposals by long, drawn out and bitter hand-to-hand parliamentary combat".
As well as encouraging users to vote, the platform sends out violence-prevention messages, provides civic education and updates communities about relevant peace-building activities, with the aim of de-escalating tensions and reducing the potential for conflict.
But perhaps the biggest red flag is the potential for conflict of interest, as a small number of researchers look to start up what could be a big new research field for academics and industry alike.
This potential for conflict with capitals will raise a critical question that could decide whether the commission's new powers are sustainable: Will it police strong countries like Germany and France as rigorously as it polices the weak?
This is self-explanatory, but here is another tweet that caught my eye on the same point: My basic premise is that the awareness of American college students is NOT a necessary condition for conflict resolution in Africa.
However as you can see above, talking to Bandi Mbubi (founder of Congo Calling a movement for conflict free tech sparked by his talk on TED) I found myself becoming enthusiastic about the possibilities for effecting change.
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To start with, conservatives mounted a ferocious campaign to stop Arlen Specter, a moderate Republican from Pennsylvania, from becoming chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee (this oversees judicial nominations and will become the main forum for conflict over the Supreme Court).
Glick explained embedding a reporter is very expensive for a media organization, and there always exists a potential for conflict between the story the host unit wants to tell versus what the reporter wants to tell, versus what the editor wants to tell.
And the progress made in that conflict is an important precedent for the capacity for parties that had been in conflict for a long time to reach peaceful reconciliation.
Finally, the belief that the United States did not need to plan for a conflict with a peer competitor has been an article of faith for most of the past 20 years.
We must never again let Lebanon become the battleground for a conflict that neither Israeli or Lebanese people wanted though it was they who paid the price for it.
Their explanation for the conflict puts the blame on Mr Afwerki: since he has failed to make life better for most of his people, he needs a war to distract and unify them.
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