Or are people hiding behind tribal conflict when it's, in fact, a political conflict?
But it raised the specter of racial and tribal conflict in the event of Gadhafi's overthrow.
So while there is fighting and unease between adjacent tribes, there's not tribal conflict on a national scale.
Its northern and western neighbours Sudan, Ethiopia, Uganda and Somalia suffer in various degrees from war, tribal conflict, government repression, separatism and all that follows.
Football and basketball deliver the vicarious experience of warlike tribal conflict.
But 300, 000 are believed to have died in the tribal conflict in the past two years, said John Holmes, who also is the United Nations emergency relief coordinator.
This should help to transform the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians from a tribal war over the land they cohabit into a conflict between sovereign states.
In 2010, UNESCO provided training to journalists in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan focusing on conflict reporting skills, ethical reporting standards, as well as safety and security of media workers in conflict zones.
Any action against the Baitullah Mehsud group in South Waziristan could draw in to the conflict militant groups based in the Wazir tribal areas of South and North Waziristan.
Amid last week's fighting in several northern provinces, al-Maliki called for dialogue among tribal leaders, government officials and security forces to stop the conflict from spiraling out of control and keep the country's nascent democracy from unraveling.
Pakistan's army made it known that in the event of conflict with India, it would move its troops from the tribal areas.
But it's worth noting that many delegates from Pakistan's tribal belt, Waziristan, which is the epicenter of some of the problems in that conflict, have also boycotted this event.
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