Ambivalence?

The most perfect case of ambivalence I ever saw.

Behind this, there has always been a sense of ambivalence, implied by the following observation

The international situation in the field of peace and security remains characterized by instability, challenge and ambivalence.

The humanitarian community is also grappling with an ambivalence towards its role with respect to human rights.

(iii) Police officers also have to face the ambivalence of the law with respect to children between 15 and 18 years of age.

His poll numbers reflect this ambivalence. He remains personally popular and well regarded, but the public is increasingly dissatisfied and disappointed with his government s actual performance.

We do not understand the new ambivalence of the international community, which seems to have moderated its initial enthusiasm to offer Somalia a consolidated rapid assistance programme.

While women were mobilized and encouraged to register by their communities and families to support candidates in the elections, ambivalence continues in the society with regard to women public figures.

Behind this, there has always been a sense of ambivalence the implementation of child rights has to be seen from the angle of those who do not fit into the power base.

According to the Special Rapporteur, both sides contributed to the inevitability of this exodus Bosnian Serb authorities by their express encouragement to Serbs to depart, and authorities of the Federation by statements which reflected ambivalence, and in some cases outright hostility, towards Serbs who might have wished to remain.

Similarly, Erdoğan s recent visit to Egypt, Libya, and Tunisia brings out the ambivalence of Turkey s new claim to regional hegemony. While Egypt s shaky military junta welcomed Erdoğan, many Egyptians were not happy about his hectoring them and other Arabs to follow Turkish policies and to regard Turkey as their Muslim leader.

But, more importantly, the lack of clarity on the Turkish accession question reflects Europe s ambivalence regarding its image of itself. To be sure, Turkey shows substantial political and cultural differences, especially when it comes to the importance of civil society, sexual equality, and the role of religion in public life.

2. The Secretary General and the members of ACC believe that the Inspectors may have underestimated the legislative and political obstacles to conflict prevention, first among which is the ambivalence of some Member States towards United Nations involvement in the early resolution of disputes to which they may be party.

This time, however, it is modernity, not exoticism, that is the source of fascination. But, because of its secular tradition (now being challenged by the current regime), its non Arab identity, its behavior towards its Kurdish minority, and the ambivalence of the Ottoman legacy, Turkey is as much a counter model as a model.

At the same time, the global economy and modernization can also promise better education, more jobs and opportunities, and improved health care, and opinion polls indicate that a majority of the region's population desires these benefits. Given ambivalence among Arab moderates, there remains a chance to isolate the extremists and gradually build stable polities with broader participation.

The judgment of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) concerning Serbia s involvement in the massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 should be greeted with considerable ambivalence. On the one hand, the fact that an international tribunal has pronounced on the responsibility of a state in the matter of genocide is an undeniably positive development.

America s newfound taste for delegating military responsibilities to others is not the result of a series of events, but the product of a long term process driven by America s simultaneous ambivalence toward the world and active engagement with it. Is it worth fighting for a world that cannot be saved, and that only invites murky, inconclusive entanglements?

These leaders profound ambivalence toward the goal of a world free of illegal drugs is shared by the European Union, where restrictions on narcotics consumption have slackened over the past decade. The past three US presidents, furthermore, have all admitted to consuming to one extent or another illegal psychoactive substances, while seven million Americans, according to the United Nations, are regular cocaine users.

The draft country programme document for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea submitted to the Executive Board of the United Nations Development Programme and the United Nations Population Fund (DP DCP PRK 1) in July 2004 notes that the economic and social situation has improved on some fronts, albeit with a degree of ambivalence. Since 2002, there have been key economic changes with the following elements