Word: strife
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...task force along Macedonia's northern and northwestern borders from 1992 until 1999. There was the OSCE - the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe - and its presciently named Spillover Monitor Mission to Skopje. There were dozens of worthy initiatives to bolster democracy, promote understanding, and damp down ethnic strife. But now tank shells are flying again, and the real prospect of more widespread killing looms. So what came of all that effort to make Macedonia the star pupil of the troubled western Balkans? Was the problem intractable? Or was the response inadequate...
...whose Sudan People's Liberation Army has waged war for greater autonomy in the mostly Christian south from the Muslim north. That agreement brought the Muslim and Christian fundamentalists together for joint "peaceful popular resistance" against Bashir's regime, which has to date failed to end Sudan's internal strife peacefully, though his party retains control of the country's key ministries. Some 2 million people have been killed in 18 years of civil...
...question of the role that climate disruption will play in national unrest and regional strife in an increasingly interesting question. I believe that any scenario for international relations a few decades into the century will have to take into consideration the impacts there...
...Klerk focused his speech on the theoretical problems of cutural strife within nations, drawing examples from current international crisises such as Bosnia and the "often-ignored" civil war in Sudan...
Harvard University has an exceptionally long and storied history. From its use as a barracks for Continental troops in the Revolutionary War to its use as a target for protesters during the Vietnam years--through coeducation, racial integration and randomization--the University has seen both strife and success...