He rushed into the room with his coat on.

And then you wait for the opening shock for your parachute to open.

Armed conflicts also hamper development.

Let's just go for it. Foot flat to the floor.

I've tried to look at the risks of reversion to conflict, during our post conflict decade.

They were yelling at him, they were it got to be really ugly.

Lasting prevention means altering the conditions that give rise to conflicts.

The people in those camps are surrounded on all sides by so called Janjaweed, these men on horseback with spears and Kalashnikovs.

There is a direct link between security, development and conflict prevention.

The conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo was the oldest conflict on the continent, and should therefore receive the highest priority. Ending the conflict would have a positive effect on other ongoing conflicts in Africa.

The Darfur conflict resembles the conflict between north and south, the conflict in eastern Sudan exposed last week in a violent eruption in Port Sudan  and the conflicts in the north, in Kordofan, and in central Sudan.

Support for practical measures for demobilization and reintegration continued in conflict affected countries and post conflict transitions.

In Africa, small farmers bear the brunt of this risk.

The cessation of armed conflict does not always instantly bring peace on the ground.

A year later, I was listening to all the noise about the Middle East conflict.

The rhetoric that has accompanied the outcome document has been impressive and reassuring, especially for developing countries and countries in conflict or emerging from conflict.

And he was walking to the front hall and out the front door just about the same time I hit some ice and met him at the front door with the car and almost ended up in the front hall.

But he looks at the pile of arrowheads, thinks they're a gift, picks them up, smiles and walks off.

Some people clung to tree branches for several hours to avoid being washed away by the floodwaters.

At the beach where I surfed today, I heard about a ceremony that had taken place there earlier in the season a farewell to a local surfer who had died at a ripe old age. His fellow surfers paddled out into the ocean and formed a circle, sitting on their boards, while his ashes were scattered over the surface.

So, we ran to the bathroom, and got towels, and put them over our faces, and the kids faces.

I mean, this is all very depressing, right people have conflicts of interest, we don't see it, and so on.

We have witnessed with great concern the series of conflict situations that have been plaguing Africa for many years.

The need to move towards a culture of prevention of conflict was recognized by all.

So, we try to get to the door, and we run to the door, and we open the door and it's like walking into a blast furnace.

I wanted it to go out of sight and then I wanted this little parachute to come back with the frog in it.

The OSCE has a well earned reputation in early warning, early action and conflict prevention.

In this context, doctrine holds that the international rules applying to armed conflicts evolve as means of war develop, since their purpose is to regulate these conflicts in a manner which corresponds to their growing complexity.

Our only chance of long term survival is not to remain lurking on planet Earth, but to spread out into space.

So now I'm going to apply that same pulse to my brain, to the part of my brain that controls my hand.

Countries in post conflict situations face significant challenges to the establishment of lasting peace.

My husband and I, we brought our son and daughter here in 1980s to have the freedom we cannot have in China at that time.

I try to balance my life equally between physics, love and surfing my own three charge directions.

Women and children suffer the most severe consequences of conflicts that they themselves do not instigate.

The protracted nature of the conflict and lack of active hostilities meant that international attention had also faded.

Conflicts and instability in many regions have been intimately associated with the growth of powerful criminal organizations.

Conflicts, as well as civil and political strife, are closely linked to the formation and growth of criminal networks.

This type of round uses a pyrotechnically initiated (PIE) fuze. It works by the impact of the round rapidly crushing explosive materials causing the materials to explode.

In Africa, children faced armed conflict, poverty, malnutrition, rape and AIDS.

That report highlighted key issues and lessons learned from the Organization's experiences in the promotion of justice and the rule of law in conflict and post conflict societies.

So, I run over to Gene, and I wake him up, and I say, Gene, don't freak out, I think the hotel's on fire.

Solar flares are enormous magnetic outbursts from the Sun that bombard the Earth with high speed subatomic particles.

And finally he says, OK, now I'm going to all of the aura get erased with an appropriately placed magnetic pulse.

We stress the important role of women in the prevention and resolution of conflicts and in peacebuilding.

The Bougainville election should be seen as the model for others who have been experiencing similar conflicts.