Some of these groups are likely to become involved in ideologically driven conflicts, and may act as proxies for other states.
Rather, these are strategically driven conflicts that can be managed and even resolved through the appropriate level of diplomacy.
As for the security threats playing out around the world, the former president said, "I think that it is unlikely that these ideologically driven conflicts we're having now with non-state actors will be fully resolved.
Encouraging development of innovative pooled procurement and funding for pharmaceutical commodities has the potential to help regulate and control industry driven conflicts of interest and corruption, prevent imbalances in access, trade and price negotiations, and better ensure the quality and efficacy of medicines.
But in Pakistan, the holiday often drives conflict.
"A sex scene is gratuitous when it only exists for its own sake," he said, adding, "We thought if we were to look at these scenes as we would look at any other scene, to advance the plot, or drive conflict, or overcome an obstacle, then we could apply all that we already knew about scene work and craft to the scene".
Such cases show that climate change in itself does not drive conflict - but the way in which climate change interacts with multiple related factors like declining oil production, food prices, and overlapping political, cultural and economic processes is already generating wild cards that repressive states are ill-equipped to deal with.
"In the past, Liberia's natural resources have been used to drive conflict and greed that benefited few and destroyed many lives.
Considering the consequences of decades of impunity in the DRC, which persists today and still drives conflict in Eastern DRC, this report demands the attention of the UN Security Council.
As an actor who tries to empathize with every character and role he assumes, even the dictators (finding that "they're just like me" after you peel off all the layers), he knows what drives conflict.
