These band-aids are expensive substitutes for the real solutions that come from rolling up our sleeves and building an international coalition committed to addressing the root causes of conflict in a serious and sustained manner.

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Solomon is in many ways the perfect writer for the subject nuanced, thorough, humane, and a gifted stylist and, trying to get to the root of this conflict, he pushes horizontal identity as far as it will go.

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But the king's past actions are root causes of a conflict dividing the country, and need to be examined.

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But we are also making it our mission to root out regulations that conflict, that are not worth the cost, or that are just plain dumb.

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Meanwhile, the Dodd-Frank approach does nothing to address the most obvious root causes of damage to the financial system--conflict of interest due to the issuer-pays model and staleness of ratings.

FORBES

The U.S. and U.N. envoys should proactively back a root-and-branch Congolese reform process to address critical issues that undergird the conflict, from decentralization to army reform.

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