Armed Conflicts

War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties. The scholarly study of war is sometimes called polemology ( POL-ə-MOL-ə-jee), from the Greek polemos, meaning "war", and -logy, meaning "the study …

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CLD: Centre for Law and Democracy · 11 April 2024 English

5 The right to freedom of expression is also found in the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights,6 to which the Republic of Congo is also a State party.7 …

Republic of Congo, which has a long history of armed conflicts and whose current peace is viewed as fragile


Wilson Center Canada · 8 April 2024 English

WORKING GROUP REPORT US Leadership Matters in Addressing Forced Displacement Crisis Six Major Issues with Recommendations for Refugee Policy and Programming AUTHORS: Susan Martin James Hollifield John Thon Majok RAFDI …

displacement from drought and floods. Moreover, armed conflicts over resources made scarcer by climate change


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 4 April 2024 English

in Privy Council Office and the Department of Finance, giving him political science with a focus on international political policy-making experience at the highest level, in particular in the economy …

pivotal factors include: The current path of an Armed conflicts that are Critical infrastructure that is additional


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 4 April 2024 English

Global Economic Scenarios Projections and Trends Global Economic Scenarios explores the potential architectures of global economic order, drawing from data-driven insights captured through global projections and trends analysis. [...] • …

pivotal factors include: The current path of an Armed conflicts that are Critical infrastructure that is additional


IISD: International Institute for Sustainable Development · 12 March 2024 English

In global environmental talks in 2023, the focus across nearly all issue areas was funding implementation and reviewing performance.The year saw the last of the COVID pandemic-delayed milestones completed. Countries …

COVID-19 pandemic, abrupt climate changes, and armed conflicts—although it notes that the SDGs were already Governance 2023 Geopolitics In 2023, over 110 armed conflicts raged, with dire humanitarian and ecological Tensions arising from strained relationships and armed conflicts spilled into environmental governance forums


Canadian Council for International Cooperation · 28 February 2024 English

Concur- rently, the world is witnessing the rise of the far right, a trend increasingly accompanied by the repression of rights and freedoms and the shrinking of civil society space. …

....... 9 Figure 2. Number of State-based armed conflicts by region ................................ witnessing the highest level of State-based armed conflicts seen since 1945. Current conflicts interlink resolution. Figure 2. Number of State-based armed conflicts by region4 By the end of 2020, around two billion


PMLQ: Parti marxiste-léniniste du Québec · 13 January 2024 English

HTM The world stands with South Africa in this case even though, at the end of the day, the struggles of the peoples of the world will not be resolved …

the treatment of the civilian population in armed conflicts." He urged the international community to end


Alberta Teachers' Association · 21 December 2023 English

Ukraine is one of the world’s leading exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, earning it the nickname “the breadbasket of Europe.” Alberta Connection Alberta is part of the Ukrainian …

home country.” It also notes that by war and armed conflicts. In the past, people fleeing “once a refugee


Alberta Teachers' Association · 21 December 2023 English

Ukraine is one of the world’s leading exporters of wheat, corn and sunflower oil, earning it the nickname “the breadbasket of Europe.” Alberta Connection Alberta is part of the Ukrainian …

home country.” It also notes that by war and armed conflicts. In the past, people fleeing “once a refugee


CIGI: Centre for International Governance Innovation · 30 November 2023 English

Clearing the Fog: The Grey Zones of Space Governance 1 The term “grey zone” is used by militaries to of grey zones in outer space by better defining indicate the …

ca/reports/a-security-regime- ———. 2021. “Armed Conflicts in Outer Space: Which Law for-outer-space-


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