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The nation has long been troubled by ethnic and religious conflicts, but in Darfur, the tribes, united by Islam, have coexisted well for more than a century.
Throughout the last decades, the world has witnessed several situations in which built or intangible heritage has been at the core of political, ethnic and religious conflicts.
Paris, April 3 - From Bamyan to Jerusalem or Sarajevo, in the past few years cultural heritage has often been a military target or the flashpoint of political, ethnic and religious conflicts.
There is hope for what seem to be intractable religious conflicts, and Northern Ireland can serve as a role model for hostilities such as those between Israel and Palestine, and Pakistan and India.
Catholicism is also a strong cultural influence in Africa's continuing search for answers to the challenges of poverty, diseases, ethnic and religious conflicts, wars, political and economic problems, radical Islamic fundamentalism, and how to mitigate the effects of climate change and natural disasters.
This is not necessarily a bad thing, but it has highlighted conflicts between religious aims and public policy.
There were conflicts, especially over religious issues, but the Jews were no different than Shanghai's tens of thousands of other foreigners, whether British, American, French, German or Japanese.
With the airwaves crowded with news about conflicts, dissent, and religious upheaval, somewhere along the line the mainstream media forgot to focus on business.
And both conflicts have prompted us to wonder, how do members of opposing ethnic or religious groups tell each other apart?
On a crisp autumn morning, assorted military, religious and political dignitaries turned out to pay their respects to those who died in the two world wars and other conflicts.
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