Dialogue and negotiations are preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts.
It seems like a dream assignment for a lot of journalists, especially ones who cover international relations and international conflicts.
They should make it easier to understand that international conflicts are not necessarily the product of mutual distrust or mutual grievances.
And, perhaps most importantly, Mr Obama would focus more on the political side of international conflicts, rather than reaching immediately for military options.
The first Rio Earth Summit in 1992 called for nations to find ways to conserve fish stocks and prevent international conflicts over fishing on the high seas.
Since 1993 the Olympic Truce has been codified in a series of United Nations resolutions stating that member states should pursue "the peaceful settlement of all international conflicts".
Claiming that "dialogue and negotiations" are now "preferred as instruments for resolving even the most difficult international conflicts" is not the same thing as saying that these instruments have actually resolved any international conflicts, let alone the most difficult ones.
Resources can also fuel international conflicts.
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Common Article 3 of the conventions, which relates to "non-international armed conflicts" -- the most common form of conflict in the world today -- is applicable to the situation in Syria.
After he left office in 1999, he was involved in international situations ranging from conflicts in Africa to the Mideast.
International efforts to resolve the manifold conflicts in the region have failed to address the roots of the conflicts and so, even when successful are generally short lived.
The Conference therefore calls upon States and all parties to armed conflicts strictly to observe international humanitarian law, as set forth in the Geneva Conventions of 1949 and other rules and principles of international law, as well as minimum standards for protection of human rights, as laid down in international conventions.
The international community does not need to wait for conflicts to end for children to be removed from armed organizations.
Safdar Hosseini, Iran's economy minister, said conflicts in the Middle East had hurt international capital flows and damaged infrastructure in the region.
The end of the cold war, the local conflicts that followed and the growing threat of international terrorist networks have all redrawn old notions about the limits of foreign intervention.
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Even if this does not help in the near-term in Syria, hopefully it will prepare the international community to protect its cultural patrimony more effectively in new conflicts down the road, as the experience in Iraq did for Libya since 2011.
But he resigned from the committee in 1999, citing conflicts of interest after a scandal erupted when his private jets were used to fly International Olympic Committee members.
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Many suits--and some of the biggest verdicts--stem from conflicts of interest, which are becoming more difficult to avoid as law firms combine into international behemoths.
The International Livestock Research Institute says large parts of Africa may soon be too dry for grazing, leading to conflicts between rival cattle herders or, as in Sudan's Darfur region, between herders and settled farmers.
The objective of World Water Day 2011 is to focus international attention on the impact of rapid urban population growth, industrialization and uncertainties caused by climate change, conflicts and natural disasters on urban water systems.
Again the national security strategy proposes a new departure, again a lesson learnt from recent conflicts ranging from Rwanda and Bosnia to Iraq, Afghanistan and Somalia: to create a standby international civilian capability so that for fragile and failing states we can act quickly and comprehensively by combining the humanitarian, peacekeeping, stabilisation and reconstruction support they need.
When conflicts cannot be prevented, at least the suffering can be mitigated, and there are now dozens of international aid organisations helping victims in war zones.
Biosphere reserves are models that have been seeking to resolve conflicts in land use and biodiversity conservation, thus creating opportunities for education, entertainment and tourism, and international collaboration in conserving the biosphere, our common house.
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