We have tools to prevent armed conflicts.

Efforts to prevent conflicts were meaningless if the economic roots of those conflicts were not addressed.

Such envoys work with member countries to carry out dialogue and prevent conflicts before they occur.

Lacking the strength to prevent them, we have endeavoured to heal the consequences of wars and armed conflicts.

The United Nations worked tirelessly around the globe throughout the year to prevent and resolve conflicts and to consolidate peace.

It will help prevent conflicts from restarting and encourage countries to make the transition from violent instability to peaceful, sustained development.

Iraq pays tribute to the United Nations, which has provided the world with a broad umbrella to prevent wars and resolve conflicts.

The aim is to prevent submunitions from becoming explosive remnants of war, which constitute real risk factors for civilian populations once conflicts end.

Encourage and support the African regional and subregional organizations' initiatives to prevent, mediate and resolve conflicts with the assistance of the United Nations

Thirdly, though peacebuilding is associated mainly with post conflict situations, in which one of the main concerns is to help prevent a relapse into conflict, it is equally important to prevent conflicts in the first place.

Since its inception in 1915, WILPF has worked to prevent armed conflicts and to establish the conditions for sustainable peace on a global scale.

Likewise, we support the idea of cooperation between the United Nations and regional organizations to prevent, manage and resolve conflicts and to keep the peace.

Political transitions were marred by violence in some African countries, prompting good offices efforts by the United Nations and others to prevent disputes from escalating into armed conflicts.

Convinced of the necessity of enhancing the overall conflict prevention and resolution capability of the United Nations system and other relevant regional organizations to prevent the outbreak of conflicts,

4. Each State Party shall, in accordance with the fundamental principles of its domestic law, endeavour to adopt, maintain and strengthen systems that promote transparency and prevent conflicts of interest.

In that regard measures taken in the context of the Millennium Development Goals to help developing countries to eradicate poverty and prevent conflicts would tackle the root causes of the problem.

And yet, faithful to its commitment to preserve future generations from the scourge of war, the United Nations has consistently attempted to prevent conflicts, to settle them and to build peace.

They should abstain from any use of force and also from any encouragement of the use of violence by parties to group conflicts in other States, and should take all necessary measures to prevent incursion by any armed group or mercenaries into other States in order to participate in group conflicts.

Action which tackles the lack of security, lack of development and lack of respect for human rights is mutually reinforcing, helps prevent the need for flight, resolve conflicts and enable durable solutions.

Regrettably, conflict continues to rage in various parts of Africa to this very day, yet such conflicts were not invoked as reasons to prevent negotiations on an African nuclear weapon free zone.

Conflicts are much more likely to arise or persist when those with the means to prevent or end them cannot or will not do so. Unfortunately, this will be borne out in 2013.

The IPU was created more than a century ago first and foremost to promote dialogue and build confidence among parliamentarians from all corners of the world in order to prevent or defuse conflicts.

As recognized by leaders at the 2005 World Summit, strengthening the capacity of the African Union and subregional organizations to prevent, mediate and resolve conflicts with the assistance of the United Nations is a priority.

They recognized that little could be done to prevent Al Qaida exploiting existing conflicts, but looked for practical measures to undermine its subversive message, for example by promoting moderate clerics and statements by repentant terrorists.

Disarmament, arms control and non proliferation can contribute to prevent conflicts, to create stability and to reduce the risk of the spread and possible use of weapons of mass destruction, thereby making our world safer.

Contemporary armed conflicts have blurred the distinction between international and internal armed conflicts.

Moreover, the inability of the international community to take effective measures to prevent and root out causes of conflicts and crises, as well as the current confrontations and differences in our world, are of growing concern.

The crises of the past year notably those in Haiti and the Sudan's Darfur region made it more urgent for States to improve the means at their disposal to prevent the conflicts that produced refugee flows.

Pakistan is a party to the Amended Protocol II of the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons, which regulates the use of landmines in both internal and external conflicts to prevent civilians from falling victim to landmines.

The challenge before us is great we must strengthen the capacity of the United Nations to prevent conflicts, to respond rapidly when a conflict occurs and to provide solutions for the building of a lasting peace.

A number of political studies in particular had concluded that there were three types of conflict in developing countries border conflicts, ethnic conflicts and conflicts over water.

(i) Developing and strengthening, at the local and national levels, institutional and educational capabilities to resolve conflicts and disputes peacefully, including through mediation, and to prevent and eliminate the use of violence in addressing societal tensions and disagreements

Domestically, they should focus on education and health, giving due attention to the gender perspective establish a culture of peace, tolerance and dialogue to prevent civil and ethnic conflicts, and resist monopolies imposed in the name of globalization.

reconciling conflicts of jurisdiction.

Children in armed conflicts

Organized crime and conflicts

In particular, the group agreed that the board should disclose structures put in place to prevent conflicts between the interests of the directors and management on the one side, and those of shareholders and other stakeholders on the other.

The report will also provide an assessment of the capacity of the United Nations system and other international actors to prevent violent conflicts, as requested by the General Assembly in its resolution 57 337 (ibid., paras. 74 and 75).

Our ability to prevent water wars will depend on our collective capacity to anticipate tensions, and to find the technical and institutional solutions to manage emerging conflicts. The good news is that such solutions exist, and are proving their efficacy everyday.

Although the number of conflicts has decreased during the last 10 years, today's conflicts tend to be protracted.

Conflicts with other international agreements

Armed conflicts also hamper development.

Protecting children in armed conflicts

Conflicts are down on the continent from about 12 conflicts a decade ago, we are down to three or four conflicts one of the most terrible, of course, of which is Darfur.

Internal armed conflicts could affect the operation of treaties as much as, if not more than international armed conflicts.