The first part of this familiarisation stage in any relationship (Stage 3) is basically a war of wills. Each individual, being used to doing things his/her way, must now try their hardest to adjust to the ways of their partner.
The most noticeable thing at the start of this torrid Stage 3 is that the glasses have lost their rosy hue and are now crystal clear, with extra zoom lens added to focus on every tiny detail as the differences in each partner become magnified and appear far less attractive.
Source: BBC world Service
Pakistan's tribal areas, along the border with Afghanistan, have been a focus for the world media since the Al-Qaeda leadership escaped American bombing in the Tora Bora mountains and slipped into this region.
Source: New Scientist
Climate change and conflict have gone hand-in-hand for the past 500 years, a study reveals.
Source: Sky.com
What are your hopes for the future? Make a tidy little profit in the property market? A romantic liaison with someone at the office Christmas party? When you live in a refugee camp in a part of the world beset by hatred and conflict, your aspirations are somewhat different.
Source: The San Francisco Chronicle
Pakistan's military said Sunday it was dispatching forces to quell fighting in the country's volatile northwest after three days of clashes between rival Sunni and Shiite Muslims left 91 people dead.
At some point, about two to four years into the partnership (but it could be earlier, if a child is on the scene) disillusion creeps in. This is the beginning of the end for most relationships as they begin the downward slide to a break-up.
Source: deutsche-welle.de
Over 99 percent of the world's supply of diamonds now comes from sources free of conflict, according to the World Diamond Council. However, many of those "blood" diamonds that remain find their way to Europe.
Source: HappyKidsClub.info
War has claimed the lives of 2 million children in the past decade.
Source: Telegraph
The way the younger generation is becoming more and more disadvantaged compared with the older generation is a pointer to the politics of the future.
Source: Nuclear Threat Initiative
North Korea in a matter of days might begin to meet its pledge to disable facilities at its plutonium-producing Yongbyon nuclear complex, Reuters reported today.
Source: BBC News
Two men who fired on police after a controversial Orange parade was banned in September 2005 have been jailed for a total of 27 years. A judge said they took part in "one of the most violent cases of public disorder in recent years".
Source: Slate
When Al Gore became a Nobel laureate on Friday, it was the second time in four years that the prize for peace had gone green. In 2004, its recipient was Wangari Maathai, a Kenyan politician responsible for planting millions of trees to combat soil erosion.
Source: National Geographic
Heavy fighting continues to rage in the Democratic Republic of the Congo's (DRC) troubled Virunga National Park, one of the last remaining homes for rare mountain gorillas.
I wrote the following review for the Yale Environment web site before the Nobel Prize announcement on October 12, 2007. While there is much to admire about his activism, the Nobel committee has just politicized the debate further by giving the prize to Gore.
Source: oxfam.org
Africa suffers enormously from conflict and armed violence. As well as the human tragedy, armed conflict costs Africa around $18bn per year, seriously derailing development. The most commonly used weapons in Africa's conflicts are Kalashnikov assault rifles.
Source: Energy Policy TV
The purpose of this hearing is to examine current thinking on the nature and magnitude of the threats that global warming may present to national security, and to explore the ways in which climate-related security threats can be predicted, forestalled, mitigated, or remedied.
I. Causes of Conflict: arises from a clash of expectations/preferences/desires that results in disunity. It can be good or bad. Js 4:1 Where do wars and fights come from among you? Do they not come from your desires for pleasure that war in your members?
Source: IRIN
NAIROBI, 26 September 2007 (IRIN) - A two-track strategy - strengthening the peace negotiations between the government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and long-term redevelopment of northern Uganda - is the best approach to ending the decades-long conflict, the Interna …
Source: biglizards.net
A long time ago (in blog years -- June 2005), I wrote a piece on Patterico's Pontifications called "Words of Wall," which I later reposted here on Big Lizards. As I wrote in the introduction to the repost:
Source: The Times
IT was just after midnight when the 69th Squadron of Israeli F15Is crossed the Syrian coast-line. On the ground, Syria's formidable air defences went dead. An audacious raid on a Syrian target 50 miles from the Iraqi border was under way.
Source: Project Syndicate
In the American-Iranian equation it was the US, not Iran, that conducted rigid ideological diplomacy. Iran backed the US during the first Gulf War, but was left out of the Madrid peace conference. Iran also supported America in its war to depose the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Source: Web MD
Sept. 10, 2007 -- Liberals and conservatives may handle mental conflict differently, according to new research on the brain. The finding comes from researchers including David Amodio, PhD, a research scientist in New York University's psychology department.
Source: The L.A. Times
Exploring the neurobiology of politics, scientists have found that liberals tolerate ambiguity and conflict better than conservatives because of how their brains work.
Source: black star news
Why has the Congo been a theatre of conflicts and human suffering not only in the past several years but continually for well over the past 500 years? In order to understand the enormous significance of the DRC and to learn from the mistakes of the past, as a prerequisite to fash …