The suffering in Syria reflects the realities of 21st-century warfare: extreme violence within states, urban battlegrounds, attacks on aid workers.
The rate of internal migration from Colombia's rural areas to its cities continues to be high, partly driven by the search for better wages and living conditions and also because of guerrilla warfare and violence related to drug trafficking.
He also penned a letter to a Victoria's Secret model as well as a poem to his girlfriend, yet the heart of his diary, and the heart of warfare, is violence.
Classical inscriptions and sculpture mingle with disturbing allusions to warfare and violence – the lethal arrows of Apollo, Pan and Panzer tanks – in this neo-pastoral masterpiece of conceptual art.
Even after a generation of warfare and violence, the drought remains "the single most important factor influencing the Afghan economy," Kofi Annan, the United Nations secretary general, said in a report to the General Assembly this month.
After all, warfare and violence have always been a feature of political life, and yet we alone drew the conclusion that separating the church from the state was a prerequisite for peace.
Her entries mix information about battles, wounded neighbors, guerrilla warfare and violence along with descriptions of domestic life, school assignments, social events and scores of local people struggling to maintain their lives as best they could in the midst of Civil War.
The 100 high school students have seen it all: gang warfare, domestic violence, racism, drug abuse.
His suggestion that warfare and violence are "adaptive" behaviors that help drive human evolution quickly attracted fiery criticism.
Into our pain and suffering, warfare and violence - God comes again".
