The more limited aim for the U.N. is to develop well-trained, adequately armed forces that can be dispatched quickly to trouble spots to prevent ethnic or political conflicts from escalating into widespread violence or to help maintain a truce or sustain a peace agreement that brings a war or ethnic strife to an end.
Although generally peaceful, the country has seen how easily protests can escalate into widespread violence.
Sparked by a teachers' strike over pay, the unrest in Oaxaca has escalated into widespread protests led by some 40,000 students, political groups and social organizations against Gov. Ulises Ruiz, whose party, the Institutional Revolutionary Party, has ruled the state for generations.
Similarly, conflicts between herders and farmers in rural communities have escalated into widespread violence affecting urban areas (Roma 2008; Blench 2003; Higazi 2013; Moritz 2010).
By Pi James NEW YORK, USA, 21 April 2010 – The global economic downturn, escalating conflicts and widespread disasters threaten to reverse advances made in the last decade in increasing enrolment and reducing the gender gap in schools around the world.
'Beyond School Books' – a podcast series on education in emergencies NEW YORK, USA, 21 April 2010 – The global economic downturn, escalating conflicts and widespread disasters threaten to reverse advances made in the last decade in increasing enrolment and reducing the gender gap in schools around the world.
Demand for both primary residences and second homes in high-amenity areas has led to escalating property values and widespread development pressure in coastal New Zealand.
However, widespread and escalating resistance to SP remains a concern and it is unlikely that SP-IPTi will remain effective in areas where there is high prevalence of SP resistance, as has been the case for IPT in pregnant women [3], [4].
The rapid pace of escalating antibiotic resistance and the widespread use of antibiotics in critical care require that stewardship programs be routinely employed in the ICU setting.
Those political scientists were concerned that mass hysteria could have what they judged to be devastating effects on American political life, ranging from widespread political alienation to escalating lone-wolf terrorism.
