Although war is seldom declared, de facto wars still occur and the belligerents are often non-states.
Prison violence, it turns out, is not simply an issue of a few belligerents.
It does not matter what type of entity is waging a war, the groups on both sides are termed belligerents.
During that war, Spain exported so much to the belligerents, without being able to buy in return, that it stacked up foreign exchange and turned it in for gold.
In its defence the government, brought together from former belligerents, representatives of civil society and elements of the political opposition, rightly says that organising elections in Congo is a logistical nightmare.
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If the belligerents are hurtling missiles at each other that travel faster than light, it might be difficult to prosecute a war for resources without destroying the planets that have the resources they covet.
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He vetoed first an American resolution calling on both belligerents to withdraw and on other states to refrain from using or threatening force in the area, and then a Russian resolution which left out the second part of the exhortation.
His cause was peace not a bad cause, but Ford pursued it with his usual black-and-white view of the world. (Every question had only one possible point of view: his own.) In December 1915 he chartered a ship to Europe to persuade the belligerents to lay down their arms.
It is not a peace that has been committed to by the belligerents, but rather a convenience that has probably been forced upon the parties and is probably doomed to -- if not failure -- at least a very rocky road, which means a lot of casualties on the part of the peacekeepers.
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