Increasing land-use conflicts call for the development of land-use systems that reconcile agricultural production with the provisioning of multiple ecosystem services, including climate change mitigation.
Though my own youthful credentials are now tenuous, it might seem natural for me to champion generational conflict, calling for a crusade against the cushioned existence of the baby boomer generations.
He also reported to Bill Clinton on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, calling for the Palestinian authority to crack down on militant groups but for Israel too to freeze the expansion of Jewish settlements on the West Bank.
The United Nations' top human rights official, Navi Pillay, has repeated called for urgent action to halt the violence in Syria, underscoring the level of brutality of the conflict, calling for war crimes investigations on both sides and monitoring the rising death toll and refugee crisis.
The charter outlined the need for measures that go beyond bringing an end to conflict, calling for the need to develop special programmes to ensure that refugees and the internally displaced can safely return and to ensure the protection of their human rights, notably the right to active citizenship.
The G8 ministers also pledged to work to end sexual violence in conflict, calling for urgent action to address "comprehensively" the "culture of impunity" in conflict zones.
This month, Médecins sans Frontières (MSF, or Doctors without Borders) said: "While Somalia remains embroiled in armed conflict, calls for the repatriation of refugees are grossly premature.
Adam Price, the former Plaid MP who made headlines a decade ago when he tried to impeach Tony Blair over the Iraqi conflict, called for the Welsh people to cast off the shackles of 600 years of English dominance.
At the very least, Obama needs to provide an explanation as to why taxpayers have to pay billions for military escalation when what this conflict calls for is a regional diplomatic solution.
The instability of conflict-affected areas, and the heightened vulnerability of populations caught in conflict, calls for careful consideration of the research methods employed, the levels of evidence sought, and ethical requirements.
