The most-striking feature of the present agreement is that Iran has escaped years of isolation and the threat of war without sustaining much damage.
NINA SHILLING New York Higher levels of fatigue in drone pilots have been attributed to "sensory isolation," but the history of war may point to another cause ("Drone-Pilot Burnout," Aaron Retica).
We are instead embroiled in the delicate and agonising histories of the maimed men who surround Anil: Ananda, who has lost his wife and seeks to die; Sarath, who has lost his also and may, indeed, share Ananda's impulse; and Sarath's strange, fierce younger brother Gamini, a doctor in the emergency services whose isolation in the madness of war is all but complete.
"The key now is urgently accessing and vaccinating the children we haven't been able to reach because of war, isolation and lack of infrastructure," said Carol Bellamy, Executive Director of UNICEF.
The struggle ended in 1993 with Eritrea independent, but decades of isolation, war and adversity left their mark.
After 10 years of isolation through war, it is once more attracting students, especially those from the troubled eastern part of the country.
For Simplice, like so many others with disability, it is abandonment and isolation that mark their experience of war.
Afghanistan has once again fallen through the net and, because of more than 20 years of war and isolation, it missed out on a worldwide campaign to combat iodine deficiency that has been waged since the 1980's.
On the radio, the country's new leader, forty-three-year-old Hamid Karzai, a former diplomat, promised a bright future of peace and development; after decades of war and isolation, the economy was reviving in Kandahar.
A woman's refuge worker who supported me likened emotional abuse in relationships to conditions faced by prisoners of war, including isolation and captivity, limits on communication and mental cruelty.
