A paramilitary is a military-esque force whose function and organization are similar to those of a professional military, but which is not considered part of a state's formal armed forces .< ref name = Reference-OED-paramilitary > Under the Law of Armed Conflict, a state may incorporate a paramilitary organization or armed agency charged with police functions into its armed forces.

Conflict theory is most commonly associated with Marxism, but as a reaction to functionalism and the positivist method may also be associated with number of other perspectives, including:

Conflict may be internal or external — that is, it may occur within a character's mind or between a character and exterior forces.

Article 4 of the Hague Convention on Certain Questions relating to the Conflict of Nationality Laws of 1930 provides that " a State may not afford diplomatic protection to one of its nationals against a state whose nationality such person also possesses ".

The Commissioner may also conduct an examination under the Conflict of Interest Act on the request of a member of the Senate of Canada or a member of the House of Commons, or on her initiative, where there is reason the believe that a breach has occurred.

Conflict may occur when:

Either West Ilsley or East Ilsley may have been the site of the Battle of Ashdown ( Alfred the Great's victory against the Danes ), the etymology of the name Ilsley is that it may be derived from Hilde-Laege which means " Place of Conflict.

* Conflict may create discrepancies between the goals of the group and the goals of the organization.

It has been suggested that the later Roman historians, from whom we draw this claim, may have been coloring their own class struggles on this time period ( See Conflict of the Orders ).

Conflict with one group may also serve to produce cohesion by leading to a series of alliances with other groups.

The second phase, to be completed in 2010, is underway for a building named Founders Hall is to house the Schools of Public Policy, Education and Human Development, Information Technology, Engineering, Management, the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, Computational Science, and the College of Visual & Performing Arts and academic and student supports services.

In those states with an underdeveloped set of Conflict rules, decisions on jurisdiction tend to be made on an ad hoc basis, with such choice of law rules as have been developed embedded into each subject area of private law and tending to favour the application of the lex fori or local law.

UPEACE The Hague will initially advance three fields where it can be innovative and complementary: Peace & Conflict Studies, Water & Peace, and Urban Peace & Security.

In 2011 war broke out in Libya, the African Military Contingent will be part of the new settlement that happens in Libya, Rwanda will be part of it, with particular cooperation between Rwanda, Uganda, and Sudan to the Libyan Conflict.

" Conflict " in Freytag's discussion must not be confused with " conflict " in Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch's critical apparatus plots into types, e. g., man vs. society.

* 1971 Zagreb Resolution of the Institute of International Law on Conditions of Application of Humanitarian Rules of Armed Conflict to Hostilities in which the United Nations Forces May be Engaged

Almost all implemented concurrency control mechanisms achieve serializability by providing Conflict serializablity, a broad special case of serializability ( i. e., it covers, enables most serializable schedules, and does not impose significant additional delay-causing constraints ) which can be implemented efficiently.

Conflict management is often considered to be distinct from conflict resolution.

A discussion of Ingoroqva ’ s work can be found in Bruno Coppieters, “ In Defence of the Homeland: Intellectuals and the Georgian-Abkhazian Conflict ” in Secession, History and the Social Sciences, ed.

Brian Crozier, director of the London-based Institute for the Study of Conflict, described IPS as the " perfect intellectual front for Soviet activities which would be resisted if they were to originate openly from the KGB.

A 2007 study of Spanish college students ( n = 1, 886 ) aged 18 – 27 found that psychological aggression ( as measured by the Conflict Tactics Scale ) is so pervasive in dating relationships that it can be regarded as a normalized element of dating, and that women are substantially more likely to exhibit psychological aggression.

In line with his long-time interest in peace and conflict resolution, in 1983 Saaty proposed that an International Center for Conflict Resolution needs to be established that would have branches in many countries and would be manned by retired diplomats, negotiators and conflict analysts.

The penance of Adam and Eve in the water can be found also in the later Conflict of Adam and Eve with Satan.

In Q4 of 2009 Egosoft announced that Terran Conflict completed the story started in X: Beyond The Frontier-taken by some to mean the end of the franchise-however in March 2011 they announced on their X-Universe forums that they would be attending FedCon XX in Düsseldorf on April 28, 2011, and would show preview footage of their current project, previously only referred to by the codename TNBT ( The Next Big Thing ).

Albion Prelude is scheduled for boxed release at some point early in 2012, and will be available free on Steam for those who register the X Superbox, or purchasable including paired with X3: Terran Conflict.

Because the higher magistracies and priesthoods were originally the prerogative of the patricians, the efforts of plebeians ( the plebs ) for access could be cast as a threat to tradition ( see Conflict of the Orders ).

In Operation Meghdoot of 1984 India seized most of the inhospitable Siachen Glacier region where the frontier had not been clearly defined in the agreement ( possibly as the area was thought too barren to be controversial ), though most of the subsequent deaths in the Siachen Conflict have been from natural disasters, e. g. avalanches in 2010 and 2012.

In situations where offensive and defensive actions are indistinguishable to outsiders, and the offensive actions are more effective in insuring group survival, then violence is sure to be present and harsh .< ref > Posen, Barry R. " The Security Problem and Ethnic Conflict.

Conflict of nationality laws can be another cause of statelessness.

Artificial General Intelligence researcher Eliezer Yudkowsky has stated on this note that, probabilistically, humanity is less likely to be threatened by deliberately aggressive AIs than by AIs which were programmed such that their goals are unintentionally incompatible with human survival or well-being ( as in the film I, Robot and in the short story " The Evitable Conflict ").

* The Taelon mothership on Earth: Final Conflict used tractor beams on several occasions.

There is also a Veteran's memorial in the southeast corner as well that features a helicopter once used during the Korean Conflict.

Conflict resolution is not defined as part of the Rete algorithm, but is used alongside the algorithm.

Ancient astronaut theory has been used as background or main topic in many fictional works such as Lovecraft's short story " The Call of Cthulhu " ( 1926 ), the movie Stargate ( 1994 ), the movie Knowing ( 2009 ), the movie Prometheus ( 2012 ), the TV show Earth: Final Conflict, and innumerable comic books, manga books and video games.

* During the Kargil Conflict between India and Pakistan in 1999, the Indian Air Force used Dassault Mirrage 2000s to drop laser guided bombs.

* In the video game Diablo III, the term Nephalem is used to describe the extremely powerful offspring of commingling Angels and Demons, who inhabited the world which was created by the pairing of a powerful angel and demon, as a sanctuary from the Eternal Conflict.

Conflict also grew over the issue of the Mosaic law, which Hippolytus states that the Ebionites believed remained in full force ( Refutation of All Heresies 7. 22 ) They are said to have rejected Paul's teachings and used only one Gospel, the Gospel of the Hebrews.

However, the widely used Conflict Tactics Scale measures roughly twenty distinct acts of " psychological aggression " in three different categories:

The TIALD pod has been used extensively since the Gulf War including during the Iraqi no-fly zone patrols ( 1991-2003 ), the related Operation Desert Fox ( 1998 ), the Kosovo War ( 1999 ) and the 2003 Iraq Conflict.

For arguments that Etzioni's concept of community is too vague to be used, see Elizabeth Frazer's The Problems of Communitarian Politics: Unity and Conflict.

Conflict diamonds were also used to purchase many of their weapons, which ranged from SLR rifles, AK-47 rifles and RPG-7 grenade launchers to 81 mm mortars and ZPU-2 anti-aircraft guns.

Atlas Aircraft was also involved in non-conventional weapons systems research and development in 1987 / 88, to produce an EMP Cannon for Armscor, which was to be used primarily in shooting down Russian Migs in the Angolan Conflict.

In 2000 in When Science Meets Religion ( 2000 ) he used a fourfold typology ( Conflict, Independence, Dialogue, Integration ) to relate religion and science that he had developed in his earlier writings.

Transformable mobile weapons were widely used during the Gryps Conflict and first Neo Zeon movement, but generally fell out of favor among military designers soon afterward.

Conflict was a historical reality in the early Macedonian kingdom and pastoralist traditions allowed the potential for population mobility ( Greek archaeologists have found that some of the passes linking the Macedonian highlands with the valley regions have been used for thousands of years ).

True to the style of his first two scores, Goldsmith used an orchestral / choral blend with light electronic elements to create the film's sound, though unlike the soundtrack to Damien, The Final Conflict makes no pronounced reference to the original Omen theme " Ave Satani ", which had earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Song in 1976.

Big Sean T. I., Chris Brown, Waka Flocka, Ray J, Yo Gotti, Lil Boosie, Cam ' ron, Scarface, Bun B, Mystikal, E-40, WC, C-Bo, Static Major, Tech N9ne, Mystikal, The Outlawz, Crucial Conflict, Prozak, Triple Darkness, Psychodrama, E-Dub and Snypaz have all used Traxster production.

Conflict between HDZ and SDP manifested in the 1995 parliamentary and City of Zagreb elections, leading to the Zagreb Crisis: an electoral alliance ( in which the SDP was a major partner ) won a majority in the Zagreb elections and chose Goran Granić as the new mayor, but Franjo Tuđman used a legal loophole to stop Granić from taking office.