violent conflict

collocation in English

meaningsofviolentandconflict

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violent
adjective
uk
/ˈvaɪə.lənt/us
/ˈvaɪə.lənt/
using force to hurt ...
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conflict
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˈkɒn.flɪkt/us
/ˈkɑːn.flɪkt/
an active disagreement between people with opposing opinions ...
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(Definition ofviolentandconflictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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There have been episodes ofviolentconflictbetween these communities, yet they continue to live together largely peacefully in many of the region's villages.
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This may be particularly true when the young have been socialized during an extended period ofviolentconflict.
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More specifically, are civil law and common law systems equally effective at preventingviolentconflict and ensuring impartial access to dispute resolution?
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It is a sustained essay in struggle, a distillation of theviolentconflictmarking the passage from oppression to liberty.
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Such an understanding of equality is essential, especially for transitional societies where inequality provided the fault line forviolentconflict.
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His aim (within a year of the actual events) was to depict a progression fromviolentconflictto impassioned lament.
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Regional organisations and international development financial institutions have begun to take a greater responsibility for assisting recovery fromviolentconflict.
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This section will accordingly focus on women's experience within the larger pattern ofviolentconflictand warfare from 1870-1918.
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These data also implyviolentconflictwithin the century prior to the city's abandonment.
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The mediation of social and economic tensions through legal arbitration, and ideological tensions through debate, if anything precludedviolentconflict.
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As constructed by realists, anarchy involves an ontology of states in a system in whichviolentconflictis always a possibility.
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Thanks to a rapidly expanding literature on the political economy ofviolentconflict, these and other questions have of late received increasingly rich attention.
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And if we includeviolentconflict(in particular, anticlericalism) within this ' dialogue ', then all contributors share this thesis.
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Violentconflictmay be very difficult to overcome.
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This reordering results from an end toviolentconflictand/or a changeover from an authoritarian regime to one based on principles of democracy and pluralism.
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In the case of commerce it was held that free trade led to increasing levels of interdependence and cooperation between states, and thus reduced the probability ofviolentconflict.
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While the first part explores the setting ofviolentconflictand its implications, the second part critically examines approaches which are meant to solve these crises.
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But we are not dealing with action on the ground in a state of armed orviolentconflict.
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