Armed Conflicts

War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies, or paramilitary groups such as mercenaries, insurgents and militias. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, aggression, destruction, and mortality, using regular or irregular military forces. Warfare refers to the common activities and characteristics of types of war, or of wars in general. Total war is warfare that is not restricted to purely legitimate military targets, and can result in massive civilian or other non-combatant suffering and casualties. The scholarly study of war is sometimes called polemology ( POL-ə-MOL-ə-jee), from the Greek polemos, meaning "war", and -logy, meaning "the study …

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Cinecittà Luce · 9 May 2019 Italian

Extended description: Elisabethville|carri armati per le strade della città|camionette con soldati dell'Onu|truppe ribelli di Ciombè appostate agli angoli e dietro le case|combattimenti|Ciombè chiede un armistizio|stabilimento Alfa Romeo di Pomigliano d'Arco|Bo …


VRT: Flemish Radio and Television Broadcasting Organisation · 9 May 2019 Dutch

Extended description: 1'00" INTERVIEW ALGERIJNSE ARBEIDERS TGV ALGEM. ONAFHANKELIJKHEID : WAAROM IN BELGIE WERKEN, HOOP TERUG TE KEREN;3'09" INTERVIEW ALGERIJNEN OVER POL. TOESTAND, ALGERIJNSE REVOLUTIE, 1 VOLK ISLAM EN NIET-ISLAM …


MINISDEF: Ministry of Defence · 2016 Spanish

Incluye referencias bibliográficas Sumario: La eficacia del Consejo de Seguridad Nacional de Naciones Unidas como instrumento básico de la comunidad internacional para evitar la escalada de los conflictos e incluso …

influence in the evolution of crises and armed conflicts. This transformation of the geopolitical stage


The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 31 October 2015 English

Yalunka, Soso, and Vai are more widely spoken in the coterminous countries of Liberia and Guinea and closely related to Mende.5 Kuranko and Kono are part of the Mandeng cluster, …

supported nationalist regime of language”, “armed conflicts”, or “the standard monoglot ideology of Arabicization”


Laws.Africa · 12 October 2015 English

principle that prohibits the employment in armed conflicts of weapons, projectiles and materials and methods


DW: Deutsche Welle · 2 June 2015 French

They are exploited in mines, prostitution, armed conflicts, as domestic in families. Millions of children are disenfranchised. Ils sont exploités dans les mines, la prostitution, les conflits armés, comme


Laws.Africa · 30 March 2015 English

Procurement or Recruitment of Person for use in Armed Conflicts. 20. Procurement or Recruitment of Person for Procurement or recruitment of person for use in armed conflicts. Procurement or recruitment of person


MINISDEF: Ministry of Defence · 2015 Spanish

Incluye referencias bibliográficas Resumen: Se aporta la visión de la región geopolítica y la relevancia del conflicto; los antecedentes históricos e inmediatos y la situación actual, el papel de los …

influence in the evolution of crises and armed conflicts. This transformation of the geopolitical stage


Laws.Africa · 22 December 2014 English

event of a nuclear accident except for acts of armed conflicts, hostilities, civil war, insurrection or in


The Journal of Sierra Leone Studies · 13 October 2012 English

It is important to note that the era during which these developments occurred was also the official end of the slave trade and the misconception of the capacity and mental …

Peace No War, an Anthropology of Contemporary Armed Conflicts, Ohio University Press Athens, James Currey


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