Those countries variously suffered from high youth unemployment, ethnic conflict, falling living standards, authoritarian government and worries about immigration.
The UK and other wealthy nations have resettled less than 2% of Syrian refugees escaping the bloody conflict, falling far short of their "fair share", according to Oxfam.
A particular act of killing might be wholly permissible if the conflict in which it occurs is a war, yet be an instance of murder if the conflict falls short war.
The World Bank found that when income per person doubles, the risk of civil war halves, and that for each percentage point by which the growth rate rises, the risk of conflict falls by a point.
The enormous contribution of logistics -- raising, arming, equipping, moving and maintaining forces in the field -- to the outcome of conflict falls outside the book's purview, as does the role of intelligence.
Because intention is the key ingredient, when you let go of the intention, the problem resolves itself and the conflict falls apart.
Under Mexican legislation, only government authorities can commit human rights abuses; inter-communal conflicts fall outside of the jurisdiction of its federal and state human rights commissions.
In what scholars Douglas Kriner of Boston University and Francis Shen of Vanderbilt University call the "casualty gap," trend data since the 1940s indicate that casualties suffered from overseas conflicts fall disproportionately on poorer communities.
