If not, we are now in the world of conflict that is critical to balancing our intuition and rational thinking.
"Hurt feelings" or "feeling offended" is the way the west processes this phenomenon, but it's far from what we, in our world of conflict resolution, psychotherapy, and Montessori education have come to understand as such.
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As helpful as simulations might be, in the real world of military conflict there is no substitute for rigorous on-the-ground exercises.
In simple terms, again, Israelis and Palestinians -- for different reasons -- have reached a level of political maturity almost unprecedented in the world of international conflict.
On a single day in August 1944, this neglected and scruffy place won a place in the annals of world conflict.
At the opening of World Diamond Congress in Tel Aviv, the outgoing president of the World Federation of Diamond Bourses said the problem of conflict diamonds was "practically over".
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The charity Save the Children says the majority of victims of rape and other sexual violence in many of the world's conflict zones are children.
By telling their stories, Kamara-Umunna humanizes some of the actors in a conflict that around the world magnified the cruelties of war.
Responsible for the coordination of thousands of peacekeepers in conflict zones throughout the world, and leading negotiations for the release of child soldiers in Uganda.
Having two global business newspapers owned, even partly, by one of the world's largest companies would create a potentially devastating conflict of interest.
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If that fails to achieve a resolution, Russia may call for a summit of world leaders on the Kosovo conflict.
Bond Street Theater has for years worked in areas of conflict around the world using non-verbal techniques to both entertain and to discourage violence.
We recognize that there are places of conflict in the world.
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.
But the most heat being generated this week will surely come from within the debating chamber of the General Assembly, where once again Mr Bush and Mr Ahmadinejad will try to capture the world's attention with their version of what is the world's most worrisome brewing conflict.
At the core of the conflict are two different ways of looking at the world.
After all of the conflict-of-interest scandals in the financial world in recent years, our policy makers have decided it looks too much like hosts and guests are buddy-buddy insiders.
After the horrors of the first world war, many people were convinced that another global conflict would unleash forces of barbarism that decaying liberalism would be powerless to resist and that the inevitable result would be the dawning of a new dark age.
Vietnam could play a broader role in some of the world's destitute and conflict-ridden zones.
Ireland is a first-world country, but one whose history of conflict and sectarian violence is only a few years in the past.
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"It's not unusual now, when there's a tense part of the world where there's conflict happening, for hackers to take matters into their own hands and to take potshots like this, " he said.
Similarly, the number of bases - and, therefore, host communities - supporting the U.S. armed forces has been cut dramatically from what it was in the immediate aftermath of World War II and the Korea conflict.
The assignment may have violated conflict of interest rules for World Bank employees.
At the same time, women and men across the world struggle still against the terrors of violence and conflict.
According to "Untying the Knot, " a new report from World Vision, child marriage increases in times of conflict and disaster, when fear pushes parents to marry their daughters early in order to ensure their safety and security.
Intel's goal is to demonstrate that its microprocessors are validated as conflict-free for tantalum by the end of 2012, and to manufacture the world's first microprocessor fully validated as conflict-free across all four minerals (gold, tantalum, tin and tungsten) by the end of 2013.
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Forty percent of the world's out-of-school kids of primary-school age live today in conflict-affected countries.
He has also written several books, including Globalization and Its Discontents, The Roaring Nineties, Towards a New Paradigm in Monetary Economics, Fair Trade For All, Making Globalization Work, The Three Trillion Dollar War: The True Cost of the Iraq Conflict and Freefall: America, Free Markets, and the Sinking of the World Economy.
But the rest of the world needs to pay more attention to this conflict in the shadows.
Many wealthy candidates have used blind trusts to quell conflict of interest concerns, including the world's most powerful billionaire, Michael Bloomberg.
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