• This COI Policy is intended to supplement but not to replace any applicable laws governing conflicts of interest applicable to ICANN or a Covered Person. (icann.org)
  • Organized jointly by the Center for Effective Global Action (CEGA) and the World Bank's Office of the Chief Economist for the Africa Region, the conference focused on the causes and impacts of conflict and fragility in sub-Saharan Africa. (worldbank.org)
  • But while the narrative of "Africa rising" seems to have dominated the news, violence and conflict continue to affect many countries on the continent. (worldbank.org)
  • Conflict and fragility exact a costly toll on the economies of Africa. (worldbank.org)
  • As we scale up our operational work in fragile states, a better understanding of the causes and impacts of conflict and fragility can help to prevent some of the deadly conflicts at the community level," said Makhtar Diop, the World Bank Vice President of the Africa Region, who delivered the conference's opening remarks . (worldbank.org)
  • The nature of conflict in Africa has changed, with increasingly organized terrorist groups - which do not operate as armies and are targeting civilians - responsible for more than a third of total political violence in 2014. (worldbank.org)
  • The shifts in the nature and geographical distribution of conflict across Africa make identifying both the causes of conflict and the ways to help countries avoid and end these conflicts, ever more challenging. (worldbank.org)
  • If you look at the distribution of growth rates across Africa between 1995 and 2013, there are a few countries with negative [growth] rates, including Sudan, South Sudan and the Central African Republic - and, not surprisingly, these are all countries which have experienced conflict in recent years," Ferreira adds. (worldbank.org)
  • In armed conflicts in West and Central Africa, soldiers and rebels terrorize women with rape and other sexual violence, as tools of war. (voanews.com)
  • He has found that major conflicts in Africa have declined over the past few decades, despite noticeable warming there-bucking the trend sketched in the latest study and in earlier, similar studies . (scientificamerican.com)
  • Thus, more information is needed about conflict and cholera, especially in Africa. (cdc.gov)
  • The University of Bath Financial Conflicts of Interest (FCOI) Policy for staff receiving funding from US Public Health Service funders. (bath.ac.uk)
  • The University of Bath Financial Conflicts of Interest (FCOI) Policy outlines the responsibilities of each role. (bath.ac.uk)
  • 2023 Though the story is centered on Sammy [Gabriel LaBelle] as essentially a Steven stand-in, Mitzi becomes the stealth hero of the movie, this passionate dancer and pianist with a real artist's soul and inner conflicts . (merriam-webster.com)
  • https://ci.apache.org/ Buildslave for this Build: bb_qnode6_ubuntu Build Reason: The Nightly scheduler named 'subversion-1.12.x-backport-conflicts' triggered this build Build Source Stamp: [branch subversion/branches/1.12.x] HEAD Blamelist: Build succeeded! (mail-archive.com)
  • If the conflict has been going on for a relatively short period of time and parties want to address the conflict before it escalates, this process will be helpful. (uoguelph.ca)
  • If you and your boss can sit down together and work through this conflict productively it will become easier the next time and the time after that etc. (selfgrowth.com)
  • Conflict coaching supports peoples' ability to engage in, manage, or productively resolve conflict with another person. (uoguelph.ca)
  • The first two findings suggest that the center of the municipal hierarchy may use its discretion over appointments and over the number of committees to resolve these conflicts of interests in some instances. (lu.se)
  • Published for over 50 years, Cooperation and Conflict is a peer reviewed journal committed to publishing high quality articles that examines a broad set of research questions. (sagepub.com)
  • Cooperation and Conflict has a tradition to publish on Nordic and European Affairs. (sagepub.com)
  • Cooperation and Conflict is one of the leading international relations journals in Europe. (sagepub.com)
  • Cooperation and Conflict has most recently been one of the main platforms for a range of debates surrounding what has become know as 'critical peace and conflict studies', part of a broader 'local', 'practice' or 'micro' turn in IR more generally. (sagepub.com)
  • Cooperation and Conflict has a long and proud history of featuring cutting-edge work. (sagepub.com)
  • Cooperation and Conflict has become one of the prime outlets for innovative work that explores new avenues of research in international relations. (sagepub.com)
  • All issues of Cooperation and Conflict are available to browse online . (sagepub.com)
  • Cooperation and Conflict aims be a platform for IR scholarship that is theoretically innovative, methodologically pluralist, empirically and historically rigorous, critical in outlook yet grounded in and with implications for key mainstream debates. (sagepub.com)
  • Articles published in Cooperation and Conflict advance the state of the art of the discipline through theoretical, conceptual and methodological innovation. (sagepub.com)
  • While being global in scope, Cooperation and Conflict also has a long-standing tradition for publishing on Nordic and European Affairs. (sagepub.com)
  • Both Lehtomeaki and Ferrero-Waldner said the EU is concerned about Russia's lack of cooperation in resolving the conflict. (rferl.org)
  • The nation of Israel-with a population of more than 9 million people, most of them Jewish-has many important archaeological and religious sites considered sacred by Jews, Muslims and Christians alike, and a complex history with periods of peace and conflict. (history.com)
  • Our conflict specialists provide a confidential, non-disciplinary process that enables the parties to resolve a conflict by resolving existing issues and building a more positive relationship. (uoguelph.ca)
  • Do trials seek to find truth or is the purpose of a trial to resolve a conflict. (carleton.edu)
  • Like many photojournalists who cover violence and conflict in the world, when I started out I was very idealistic. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Over the past 10 years, however, there has been an explosion of research in this area, with economists, political scientists, geographers, historians, anthropologists all trying to understand the underlying mechanisms of conflict and tackle the issue together," he notes. (worldbank.org)
  • But the lack of causal mechanisms leaves many political scientists sceptical about the environment's role in conflicts, which they say are driven by a complex array of social factors. (scientificamerican.com)
  • States, among other things, to establish a dialogue with relevant national and international parties and form alliances and partnerships to expand nutrition actions and introduce adequate mechanisms to safeguard against potential conflicts of interest. (who.int)
  • A proper understanding of the drivers and mechanisms of these (polarized) conflicts, along with possible responses to them, therefore needs to incorporate the dynamics between international, national and local actors and processes. (lu.se)
  • Geographic distribution of recent emerging or reemerging infectious disease outbreaks and countries affected by conflict, 1990-2006. (cdc.gov)
  • These examples are programmatically compiled from various online sources to illustrate current usage of the word 'inner conflicts. (merriam-webster.com)
  • Shibley Telhami of the Anwar Sadat Professor for Peace and Development at the University of Maryland, College Park, and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the Brookings Institution is an expert on international relations and ethnic conflict. (brookings.edu)
  • In particular, inter-group distances computed from language and embodied in polarization measures turn out to be extremely important correlates of ethnic conflict. (repec.org)
  • a) In connection with any proposed transaction, contract, arrangement, policy, program or other matter being considered by ICANN, a Covered Person shall promptly disclose the existence of any Potential Direct Conflict that may give rise to a Conflict of Interest with respect to the proposed transaction, contract, arrangement, policy, program or other matter. (icann.org)
  • A Covered Person shall promptly disclose the existence of any Potential Perceived Conflict, which shall be treated as equivalent to a Potential Direct Conflict until such time as the doubt is removed and the matter is determined after investigation of all the relevant facts in accordance with this COI Policy. (icann.org)
  • This policy explains how we identify, prevent and manage actual or potential conflicts of interest which may arise between our clients and ourselves, or between one client and another in circumstances where we are providing our products and services. (mercer.com)
  • Any employee, or a member of an employee's immediate family, who has or proposes to have a business or financial relationship (as defined in the Conflicts of Interest Policy) with Boston University, either directly or through another entity in which the employee or immediate family member has a significant interest. (bu.edu)
  • Ronnarong Phoolpipat, director-general of the Trade Policy and Strategy Office, said the heightened conflict and international sanctions are expected to continue to drive up the price of oil until the end of this year. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Resolution WHA65.6 also requested the Director-General to develop risk assessment, disclosure and management tools to safeguard against possible conflicts of interest in policy development and implementation of nutrition programmes consistent with WHO's overall policy and practice. (who.int)
  • Following up on the outcomes of the technical consultation, the Secretariat devised a draft approach on preventing and managing conflicts of interest in policy development and implementation of nutrition programmes at country level. (who.int)
  • This thesis consists of four self-contained essays on different conflicts shaping local government policy. (lu.se)
  • While conflict can be a precursor to violence most conflicts resolve positively and do not progress to violence. (cdc.gov)
  • Conflicts that fail to resolve positively may well lead to further conflicts. (cdc.gov)
  • A centralized budget process, a credible threat of replacement of managers running deficits, and surplus carry-over rules are all positively correlated to net revenues - but only in municipalities that report substantial conflicts of interest between the two hierarchical levels. (lu.se)
  • However, a deficit carry-over rule is positively correlated to net revenues in municipalities reporting minor conflicts of interest. (lu.se)
  • Notably, these and other land-use conflicts in Sweden are strongly embedded in multi-level governance settings. (lu.se)
  • Such disclosure shall be made to the Office of the General Counsel setting forth, in writing, all relevant facts relating to the Potential Direct Conflict. (icann.org)
  • The disclosure to the Office of the General Counsel of a Potential Conflict shall be made promptly and pursuant to such procedures as the Board or the Committee may establish from time to time. (icann.org)
  • a) After disclosure of a Potential Conflict by an Interested Person, the Office of the General Counsel will promptly inform the Committee of the Potential Conflict and provide the Committee with all information provided by the Interested Person related thereto. (icann.org)
  • Selected Employees" (based on title, job duties, employment grade) and other representatives are required to file a disclosure form annually through a web-based COI Application indicating whether they have conflict. (bu.edu)
  • For example, he said Uganda, which hosts more than 1.4 million refugees, reopened its borders to allow entry to 3,000 people fleeing deadly armed conflict in DR Congo. (globalsecurity.org)
  • As we scale up our operational work in fragile states, a better understanding of the causes and impacts of conflict and fragility can help to prevent some of the deadly conflicts at the community level. (worldbank.org)
  • If the conflicts are not managed at their source, it will become difficult for your employees to work with each other - and for your business to be successful. (morebusiness.com)
  • Conflicts in the workplace can turn your office into a battleground, and can severely reduce the productivity of your employees. (morebusiness.com)
  • Workplace conflicts usually arise because of differences of opinion between employees. (morebusiness.com)
  • Try to make the conflicting employees compromise. (morebusiness.com)
  • Every 2 years, all state, county, and municipal employees must complete a conflict of interest law online training program. (mass.gov)
  • In addition, every year all state, county, and municipal employees must be provided with the summary of the conflict of interest law. (mass.gov)
  • The workshop's 26 experts from Europe and the United States held discussions based around four main themes: military lessons from the Afghan campaign, terrorism and asymmetric warfare, regional dimensions of the conflict, and Euro-Atlantic relations in Southwest Asia. (rand.org)
  • The identification, prevention and/or management of conflicts of interest is an ongoing process. (mercer.com)
  • The result is consistent with a growing body of research suggesting that climate change somehow incites human conflict. (scientificamerican.com)
  • They linked climate extremes to many types of conflict, from the fall of the fractious Classic Maya empire in the ninth century, to professional baseball pitchers purposely hitting opposing batters with balls. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Similarly, Halvard Buhaug, a political scientist at the Peace Research Institute Oslo in Norway, says that the latest study does little to sway his belief that the climate-conflict link is weak and inconsistent. (scientificamerican.com)
  • The contradictory results point to the need for researchers to test the links between climate and conflict in case studies where more variables can be tracked, says Andrew Solow, an environmental statistician at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. (scientificamerican.com)
  • Without that focus, he warns, researchers may unintentionally exaggerate the climate-conflict relationship by tweaking the definition or historical bounds of a conflict. (scientificamerican.com)
  • inproceedings{LPAR-19:Conflict_Resolution_in_Structured, author = {Martin Bal\textbackslash{}'a\textbackslash{}v\{z\} and Jozef Frt\textbackslash{}'us and Martin Homola}, title = {Conflict Resolution in Structured Argumentation}, booktitle = {LPAR-19. (easychair.org)
  • However, when a conflict is found, current CDCL implementations stop and analyze that concrete conflict, even though other conflicts may exist in the unit-propagation closure. (easychair.org)
  • In this experimental evaluation, we report on our experience in modifying this concrete aspect in the CaDiCaL SAT Solver and try to answer the question of whether we can improve the performance of SAT Solvers by the analysis of multiple conflicts. (easychair.org)
  • In the longer term, if the conflict is protracted and becomes intense without any concrete solutions, it will definitely affect world economic growth, he said. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Business leaders are increasingly worried about the escalating Russia-Ukraine conflict, with rising oil prices threatening to drive up living costs. (bangkokpost.com)
  • Land-use conflicts in Sweden have been increasingly marked by affective polarization between actor groups, i.e. a growing difference between positive and negative emotions attached to viewpoints and values on land use issues. (lu.se)
  • The course title has been changed to Globalisation, Conflict and Post-Conflict Reconstruction to reflect the course content more accurately. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Covered Persons are obligated to disclose ethical, legal, financial and other Conflicts of Interest involving ICANN and remove themselves from a position of decision-making authority with respect to any Conflict of Interest involving ICANN. (icann.org)
  • The analysis relies on a theoretical model of conflict (Esteban and Ray, 2010) in which equilibrium conflict is shown to be accurately described by a linear function of just three distributional indices of ethnic diversity: the Gini coefficient, the Hirschman-Herfindahl fractionalization index, and a measure of polarization. (repec.org)
  • All pages with titles beginning with Conflict All pages with titles containing Conflict All pages with titles beginning with The Conflict All pages with titles containing The Conflict Clash (disambiguation) Conflict resolution Confrontation (disambiguation) Struggle (disambiguation) This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Conflict. (wikipedia.org)
  • Title : Consumer-provider conflict in health service recommendations. (cdc.gov)
  • Run the conflict resolution REST services on the source server before you run the export operation. (ibm.com)
  • Preferred) Run the conflict resolution REST services on the target or destination server before you run the import operation. (ibm.com)
  • The Conflict resolution REST services make significant changes to the IBM Security Guardium Key Lifecycle Manager server that might impact its operation and the communication with the storage device. (ibm.com)
  • This session is organized around collaborative sense-making to understand the emergence, the unfolding, and the potential and shortcomings of resolution approaches for land use conflicts. (lu.se)
  • A second front has opened in the conflict between ethnic Albanian guerrillas in Macedonia and government forces, fuelling fears of a new Balkan war. (bbc.co.uk)
  • There are fears the conflict may escalate into civil war. (npr.org)
  • The rhetoric is hardening on both sides of the conflict, raising fears it could escalate into a full-out civil war and destabilize an already fragile region. (npr.org)
  • Conflict is a condition in which people's concerns appear to be incompatible. (selfgrowth.com)
  • According to Edward Miguel, CEGA Director and Professor of Economics at UC Berkeley, who gave the keynote address , while conflict is the central issue of politics and people's lives, it has been ignored as a factor in economic research for too long. (worldbank.org)
  • In addition to its huge human cost, conflict is associated with lower [GDP] growth and can create what we call a 'poverty trap,' meaning that a country remains "stuck at a low-level equilibrium. (worldbank.org)
  • 1 ) describe how conflict leaves populations in dire poverty, internally displaced or seeking asylum, having poor access to essential services, and consequentially vulnerable to infectious diseases. (cdc.gov)
  • And while violent deaths due to conflict decreased markedly in the mid-2000s, the figure has been rising steadily since 2012. (worldbank.org)
  • Cheney proclaimed that the first order of business for any democracy is to protect democracy: "Most of world history is a story of violent conflict. (motherjones.com)
  • When in doubt, Covered Persons shall disclose matters as Potential Direct Conflicts. (icann.org)
  • b) Potential Perceived Conflicts can be seriously damaging to the multistakeholder community's confidence in ICANN. (icann.org)
  • When in doubt, Covered Persons shall disclose matters as Potential Perceived Conflicts and disclose all relevant facts relating to the Potential Perceived Conflict to the Office of the General Counsel. (icann.org)
  • c) If any Covered Person has reason to believe that another Covered Person has a Potential Conflict, the Covered Person with such belief shall inform the Office of the General Counsel, including disclosing all relevant facts relating thereto. (icann.org)
  • At the discretion of the Disinterested members of the Committee, the Interested Person may present further information regarding, or otherwise discuss with such members, the Potential Conflict. (icann.org)
  • b) Thereafter, in the absence of the Interested Person, the Disinterested members of the Committee shall determine whether or not the circumstances disclosed by the Interested Person regarding the Potential Conflict constitute a Conflict of Interest, and, subject to a contrary finding by a majority of the Disinterested Directors, the determination by Disinterested members of the Committee in this regard is conclusive and may not be challenged by the Interested Person. (icann.org)
  • For example, we may be unable to undertake work for clients if we identify an actual rather than a potential conflict and there is a risk that our client's interests may be damaged. (mercer.com)
  • The fourth essay explores potential determinants of the conflicts of interest reported in the survey. (lu.se)
  • options to address this polarization, including potential lessons learned from other land use-related conflicts in Sweden. (lu.se)
  • He cites new conflict-driven displacements in hot spots such as Mozambique, the recent clashes between Armenia and Azerbaijan, violence and human rights abuses in Nicaragua, and the situation in Yemen, where the fear of famine now looms large amidst the spread of COVID-19. (globalsecurity.org)
  • The conflicts of the last few decades are driven primarily by organized crime. (thedailybeast.com)
  • Or we may disclose or seek the informed consent of the client(s) affected by a conflict before we provide products or services. (mercer.com)
  • In this clip, Ahmed describes his dream of developing a Palestinian orchestra, and reflects on how music can provide opportunities to youth in conflict. (qub.ac.uk)
  • In the case where the conflicting binaries provide the same functionality, you can then rename the binaries with a prefix, and use "alternatives" to let the end user to select which generic name is the default. (opensuse.org)
  • We propose a novel argumentation-based semantics, in which the status of arguments is determined by attacks between newly introduced conflict resolutions instead of attacks between arguments. (easychair.org)
  • And in all my years photographing various conflicts around the world, I haven't been able to prove it. (thedailybeast.com)
  • We will take all reasonable steps to prevent conflicts of interest from adversely affecting the interests of our clients. (mercer.com)
  • There is no fault in conflict. (selfgrowth.com)
  • The polarization surrounding these and other questions has also impacted the role of researchers, with emerging or intensifying fault lines within the scholarly community on land-use conflicts. (lu.se)
  • The conflict in Sudan is triggering a health crisis affecting an entire region," said Dr Jean-Bosco Ndihokubwayo, WHO Representative in Chad. (who.int)
  • This paper examines the impact of ethnic divisions on conflict. (repec.org)
  • Discord between spouses is often unavoidable when two people seek to integrate their lives, causing conflicts that vary in frequency and intensity. (bvsalud.org)
  • If the conflict involves the team, don't address the situation individually. (morebusiness.com)
  • There are many types of files which can conflict between multiple packages. (opensuse.org)
  • Small changes in temperature and rainfall substantially raise the risk of conflict of many types, from interpersonal spats - such as aggressive horn-honking by automobile drivers - to full-blown civil war and societal collapse, researchers report today in Science . (scientificamerican.com)
  • World in Conflict is a case in point. (eurogamer.net)
  • Even so, care must also be taken to ensure that in every case there is no conflict of interest or the risk that there may be a perception of a conflict of interest. (gamblingcommission.gov.uk)
  • In a nightmare scenario, the conflict could pull in neighboring countries, including Sudan, which is working through a delicate transition of if its own, and Somalia, which is still fighting an Islamist insurgency. (npr.org)
  • Brazzaville/Cairo - The conflict in Sudan that has forced 3.4 million people to flee for safety within the country and across its borders is rapidly intensifying health threats, with cases of infectious diseases and other afflictions reported among the displaced population who have sought refuge in hard-to-reach locations with limited health services. (who.int)
  • Since marital conflict is an experience with a universal scope, it becomes pertinent to think about how couple relationships evolve over time. (bvsalud.org)
  • p>How we manage a specific conflict will depend on its nature and significance. (mercer.com)
  • Regressions on unique survey data from 265 of the 290 Swedish municipalities confirm that the correlation between institutions and fiscal performance depend on the reported strength of conflict between the two levels. (lu.se)
  • The 2002 workshop's agenda focused on terrorism and asymmetric conflict in Southwest Asia, from both a regional and global perspective. (rand.org)