Persistence of conflicts will also be a major factor undermining progress in several countries.
Some of his current research projects include work on the long-run persistence of armed conflict, the impact of nuclear weapons acquisition on states' foreign policies, and the strategic dynamics of civil war onset.
In these settings, the traditional methods of diplomacy, negotiation and mediation -- and even military victory -- seem to have little impact on the persistence of the conflict.
Since the eve of his election in his Philadelphia speech until his recent peaceful and pacifying response to the alarmist remarks with which Jimmy Carter evoked the persistence of racial conflict in the Deep South, Obama does not cease repairing, cauterizing, mending, in short, pacifying.
"No one -- not the United Nations, not the international community, not Africa's leaders -- can escape the responsibility for the persistence of these conflicts," Mr. Annan said.
The remoteness of many HAT-endemic areas, persistence of forgotten conflicts, and insufficient resources continue to restrict the possibility of eliminating HAT, except in countries or regions where the disease is already well controlled or where control programs cover all disease-endemic foci.
It is a prophecy revealed to St. Benjamin that portended a future of sectional division, corrupt politicians and the persistence of the racial conflict — "for I saw that the last state of that land was like unto the first".
Some centers were transformed into semi-permanent resettlement areas because of the persistence of the armed conflict in the home communities of the displaced population.
So my hypothesis is that if one can understand the persistence of the kind of conflicting commitments in intellectual, cultural, and political life required by rapidly modernizing European societies, the kind Hegel thought had been overcome, one will be in a better position to begin to understand the aesthetic experimentation that seemed to begin with Manet.
Here we have studied through modeling the emergence, persistence and resolution of conflicts in a collaborative environment of humans such as WP.
