Big Countries, Small Wars

Countries that have been through war in the previous five to ten years are at far higher risk than others of witnessing a relapse of war.

The war has made it grim.

18. While in recent years the frequency of inter State wars had been decreasing, the number of intra State wars, particularly in the developing countries, had been increasing.

In some of them, war or civil strife have prevented national elections from taking place.

One of the major constraints of the United Nations is that it lacks a mechanism designed to avoid State collapse and the slide into war, or to assist countries in their transition from war to peace.

All wars are over. Even yours. The country is growing up.

They say there ain't no war out in California.

Roughly half of all countries that emerge from war lapse back into violence within five years.

The country had been devastated by long war.

Seeing no profit in it, nations avoid war.

The situation was aggravated by the war in the northern part of the country, which had triggered the exodus of thousands of Iraqis to neighbouring countries.

Because it was wartime, the British .303 rifle was just all over the whole country.

Cl. 340, 374 75 (1886) (citing Wheaton's distinction between two classes of war A perfect war is where one whole nation is at war with another nation, and all the members of both nations are authorized to commit hostilities against all the members of the other, in every case, and under every circumstance permitted by the general laws of war.

In many countries, every family and every human destiny was affected by the consequences of the war.

The first thing to do is to drop the metaphor of a war on terrorism. Wars are mostly fought with arms on battlefields between soldiers of opposing countries.

Classic inter State wars have virtually ended.

In some countries, in particular in sub Saharan Africa, they include children orphaned by HIV AIDS and war and children affected by war in other ways.

8 Rape was used as a weapon of war in at least 13 countries between 2001 and 2004.

i) if he or she commits the act during the state of national emergency or the state of war.

The infantryman's home in battle is his slit trench.

You might think of that as the privatization of war.

Mr. Mirsad Tokaca Bosnia and Herzegovina State Commission for War Crimes

Well I was born in the most difficult time, when my country was at war.

Notably, there remains the issue of families separated before, during and after the war.

Nobody wants war, and yet...

Is that woman at war? Is her baby at war?

8. We will spare no effort to free our peoples from the scourge of war, whether within or between States, which has claimed more than 5 million lives in the past decade. We will also seek to eliminate the dangers posed by weapons of mass destruction.

The National Assembly may not be dissolved during a state of war, an immediate threat of war or a state of emergency.

However, despite Lomé, the country plunged into war.

Assistance to countries in preparing national statistical development strategies and getting support for these strategies from their own Governments

While in the Islands, he visited the British war cemetery at San Carlos, the battlefield at Goose Green and the Argentine war cemetery at Darwin.

Similarly, war and atrocities are far from the only reasons that countries are trapped in poverty, but they undoubtedly set back development.

Mr. Bekir Kapetanovic President of Bosnia and Herzegovina State Commission for War Crimes

In 1939, when the war began, Canada had a tiny population on a vast area of land.

The international rules of warfare, governing Inter State wars fought by regular armies, are routinely ignored in these situations of total war .

Leaving the country to avoid mobilizsation 1 to 10 years in peacetime 5 to 20 years during times of war or threat of war (WRI).

One of the fruits of the end of the cold war has been the suspension of strategic competition, reflected in the decline in some countries of military expenditure.

v. violations of the laws or customs of war

My country lost millions of its citizens in the war.

Roughly half of all countries that emerge from war lapse back into violence within five years.

In the reporting period, the Office of the High Representative also led the way in establishing the necessary institutions for the domestic trial of war crimes in Bosnia and Herzegovina by establishing a special department for war crimes within the State Prosecutor's Office and a special chamber for war crimes within the State Court.

11. Children may also become separated from their families during war related displacement within their national borders.

Still, in a war...

The homeland war was a defensive, just and legitimate war.