The conceptual approach described in this paper makes a novel contribution to the study of ethical conflict, adopting as it does a perspective that goes beyond previous research in the field.
For the court to grant a case in the absence of a lower-court conflict — as it did in the case decided in June that invalidated voluntary integration plans in two public school systems — is often an indication that the case has been added to the docket as a vehicle for advancing a particular agenda.
The Bush administration may have exhibited hard-nosedness in the recent Gaza conflict, as it did in Lebanon in 2006, granting Israel considerable latitude to pursue its military actions, regardless of civilian deaths.
Citing figures such as Isaac Newton, Johannes Kepler and Christopher Wren, she showed that progress arises as much from the conflict of ideas as it does from concurrence.
Mr Medvedev went further, describing East-West relations as having "fallen into a new cold war" – although that has as much to do with the Western reaction to Russia's role in the conflict in Ukraine as it does with Syria.
This is a focused look at a dismally complex and intractable conflict, and running as it does on Tuesday, the night before President Obama's fifth strategy meeting on Afghanistan with his national security team, it couldn't be more timely.
"Turkey will derogate the European convention on human rights insofar as it does not conflict with its international obligations," the deputy prime minister, Numan Kurtulmuş, was quoted as saying by the state-run Anadolu news agency, in a corrected statement.
The line between legal and extra-legal violence could fade as it typically does in times of heightened political or racial conflict – and as it did in the first redemption, when even moderate white people kept silent in the face of the Ku Klux Klan's butchery because they sought a speedy return to white rule in the south.
US forces had to know they were targeting a hospital because MSF, as it does in all conflict contexts, had provided its exact GPS coordinates on multiple occasions.
As long as it does not conflict with lunch plans, of course.
