armed conflict
collocation in Englishmeaningsofarmedandconflict
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armed
adjective
uk/ɑːmd/us/ɑːrmd/
using or ...
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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 ofarmedandconflictfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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What we therefore see emerging in situations ofarmedconflictis the extension of traditional child labour practices.
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The plight of children inarmedconflict, and in particular child soldiers, has led to the adoption of international instruments to protect children.
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Corruption, cronyism and subordination of the criminal justice system to the executive all increased under the pressures of thearmedconflict.
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His lifelong wish, as a pacifist, was to expose the futility and pity ofarmedconflict.
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Read together the essays offer very interesting perspectives on the impact ofarmedconflicton religious expression.
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Another important need is to explain the preference for children in situations ofarmedconflict.
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States generally have fewer obligations to protect human rights duringarmedconflict, in which case the more minimal protections of international humanitarian law apply.
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The rules of war fare form an evolving framework of regulations seeking to restrain the conduct of parties to an internationalarmedconflict.
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This could include not only large-scalearmedconflictbut also, for example, distinctive patterns of ' private ' violence, such as that within families.
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Over 50,000 combatants were disarmed before the government announced the official end to the country'sarmedconflict.
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As the current conflict drags into its third year, medical care remains impeded and medical personnel are vulnerable to the dangers ofarmedconflict.
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Displacement refers to persons who have been obliged to leave their homes because ofarmedconflict, human rights violations, or natural or human-made disasters.
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There is, in other words, no dislocation between the rhetorical world of the war-poems and the material world ofarmedconflict.
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Article 3(a) specifically prohibits the ' forced and compulsory recruitment of children for use inarmedconflict'.
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Lifesaving services also emerge in an entirely different context as we consider medical ethics andarmedconflict.
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The failure to prosecute landholders responsible for the violence ' may have heightened political polarization,armedconflict, and disenchantment with the government ' (p. 161).
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It was rather the fact that from the very beginning, even before taking specific steps to re-arm, both sides shied away from the risk ofarmedconflict.
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Now that war has mutated and expanded to include all kinds ofarmedconflictnot previously recognised under international humanitarian law, peace has become a scarce commodity.
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Many civilians also found themselves trapped in the midst of thearmedconflictand were obliged to leave.
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However, it would be premature to conclude that children will henceforth be protected by international conventions in situations ofarmedconflictfor a variety of complex reasons.
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