Plainly, most Taiwan people would rather not lose life, limb and hard-earned prosperity in a devastating conflict.
It ended with the partition of Vietnam in 1954, which precipitated the devastating conflict between the communist North and the American-backed South.
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Nor is it the return of violence in the Palestinian camps, though it is well-known that the destabilising Palestinian ingredient in Lebanese life has been the trigger for devastating conflict in the past.
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The ongoing war between Ethiopia and Eritrea is counted as perhaps the largest, most devastating conflict the world has seen in some time, while the conflicts inside Sierra Leone, Sudan and the Congo have sapped countless of millions of dollars from the continent's economy, and claimed perhaps hundreds of thousands of lives.
"They were destroyed in the context of the conflict devastating Afghanistan and to undermine the power of culture as a cohesive force for the Afghan people, " said UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova in a statement Monday.
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Taken together with the U.S. administration's refusal to come to grips with what truly is the most serious threat to peace in the Middle East - Iran's rising power and growing aggressiveness, reflecting in part its incipient nuclear weapons capabilities - the stage is being inexorably set for the next, and perhaps most devastating, regional conflict.
"This case highlights a conflict of interest that arose between UBS and its customers and the devastating effect that such conflict had on those customers, " says the complaint by William Galvin, Massachusetts's top securities regulator, who has targeted Wall Street for alleged misdeeds in the credit crisis.
This means the prospect for a more devastating and widespread global conflict is greater than ever.
Almost six million Poles, including the majority of the country's large Jewish population, died during the devastating six-year conflict.
"Potentially, AIDS is more devastating to the country than armed conflict and landmines, " says UNICEF's child-protection officer, Margie de Monchy.
"This utterly unacceptable escalation of the conflict could lead to a devastating loss of civilian life and a humanitarian disaster, " he said.
If anything it's become even more unbearable in the months since I had those conversations and I think eventually, and I hope it's very soon, people there are going to recognise that this conflict, grinding, demoralising, dehumanising, devastating to people on both sides, has to stop and they've got to learn to live side-by-side in negotiation and in peace.
In 1949, in the aftermath of two devastating global wars, new Geneva Conventions were developed to codify the laws of armed conflict and to limit the activities of combatants with respect both to other combatants and to non-combatants.
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