Word: conflictive
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...faces another test next week, when representatives from China and Taiwan will hold another round of negotiations in Taipei to further improve ties. The DPP has already warned it plans protests during the summit. For Ma, the task of resolving the conflict with China, already a tough task, looks set to become even harder...
...fighting in the eastern part of the country in the past few weeks. Government forces are pitted against rebel groups that have operated in the area since crossing the border from neighboring Rwanda at the end of the genocide there in 1994. In some ways - such as how the conflict has sucked in armies from across Africa and how it has often descended into a fight over the region's plentiful natural resources - the war in Congo is immeasurably more complicated than the one in Rwanda. But in other ways, it's a direct sequel. The rebels now advancing...
...Darfur, where the U.N. has agreed to deploy 26,000 peacekeepers to end genocide. It is a mission that, if fully staffed, would supercede that in the D.R.C. as the biggest in the world. "The concept is focused on mass atrocity crimes," says Gareth Evans, who heads global-conflict watchdog the International Crisis Group and who launched a book, Responsibility to Protect, in Washington on Tuesday. "The whole point is to develop an international reflex response that goes, 'Of course we have to do something. Let's figure out what...
...GuluWalk is now held in 100 cities worldwide, according to the organization’s Web site. The funds raised by the walk enable international organizations like the Lui Institute for Global Issues to provide humanitarian support for the nearly 1.7 million people displaced by the conflict and for the re-integration of former child soldiers. After Uganda’s independence, continued conflicts amongst rebel groups have thrown the nation into turmoil. Civilians of the north, particularly in the Gulu province, have fled to squalid Internally Displaced Person camps that are poorly supplied and defended by the central government...
...event was originally at 10 a.m., but was moved to 9 a.m. due to a last-minute scheduling conflict of Summers...