9 RegisterLog in Sign up with one click: Facebook Twitter Google Share on Facebook armed forces (redirected fromArmed Force) Thesaurus Encyclopedia armed forces pl.n. The military forces of a country. Also calledarmed services. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Editio...
Furthermore, most studies are conducted at a single spatial scale, and few have included variables related with internal socio-political conflicts. Here we evaluated the effect of environmental, demographic, and socio-economic variables on woody cover change in Colombia between 2001 and 2010 at the...
Social work In the shadows of armed conflict| Exploring everyday violence in Afghanistan RUTGERS THE STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW JERSEY - NEW BRUNSWICK Jeffrey Longhofer RayAnasuyaThe length, scale, and intensity of the Afghan conflict distinguish it from other conflicts worldwide. This qualitative, ...
International humanitarian law (IHL) is based on the premise that armed conflicts can be categorised as either international under Common Article 2 of the ... Noelle Quenivet - T.M.C. Asser Press 被引量: 0发表: 2014年 The updated ICRC Commentary on the Second Geneva Convention: Demystifying...
Armed conflicts continue to be waged with pregnant women and girls, babies and children affected most. Most countries in conflict are poorly resourced and their mortality and morbidity statistics so much higher than rich countries that nothing short of a global revolution to create equity is going ...
into theCountmodel. Two main results emerge from this estimation round: (i) the persistency of conflicts over time strongly affects the probability to experience additional conflicts; (ii) the resource curse is a powerful driver of conflicts but it is mitigated by the quality of the institutions...
Another military target in the war on Terrorism is any country that has harbored or supported terrorists. When George W. Bush took office in January 2001, his foreign policy goals included restraint in military intervention in overseas conflicts, rather than expansion. However, the new foreign pol...
BENI, DR Congo, March 14 (Xinhua) -- Challenges and deep concerns are growing in the General Reference Hospital in Beni, northeastern the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), overcrowded with victims of armed conflicts carried out by rebels of the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF). ...
(Stohl et al, 2007) Figure 4: UNDP GDP per Capita Profiles of Conflicts The study suggests that the economic cost of civil war lies somewhere between 1.7 and 3.3 percent of GDP per country per conflict year before 1990 and around 12.3 percent of GDP after 1990, the post–Cold War era ...
"It must be pointed out that double standards undermine efforts to protect civilians. Protection of civilians applies to all parties in all armed conflicts without distinction. All forms of exceptionalism must be abandoned," he said. "The particular country that has engaged in the largest number ...