http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/conflict-prevention Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:08:04 -0400 Sat, 13 Jun 2026 06:08:04 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/249/idle-youth-using-sport-to-address-the-youth-bulge-in-sierra-leone By Will LA. Bennett - There is a growing consensus that the prevalence of a large youth population is not conducive to peace and that such a ‘youth bulge’ can even increase the risk of civil conflict and political violence.[1] Richard Cincotta and Elizabeth Leahy argue that such a youth bulge within the confines of fragile or failing states where economic opportunities are few and horizontal inequalities are numerous raises the potential for violence significantly. Indeed they discovered that about eighty-six percent of all countries that experienced a new outbreak of civil conflict between 1970 and 1999... Tue, 11 May 2010 08:05 EDT http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/249/idle-youth-using-sport-to-address-the-youth-bulge-in-sierra-leone http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1161/mcpeace By James Ritchie - Does a regular diet of McRib sandwiches, cokes and fries destroy the war-making capacity of man? Should the United Nations include Big Macs with the blankets it sends to Bosnia, Rwanda and other war-torn states? Thomas Friedman accepts there are limits to the Golden Arches Theory of Conflict Prevention. Civil wars cannot be prevented by McDonald’s: the 1993 attempted coup against Boris Yeltsin witnessed combatants from both sides taking time out for trips to the Moscow McDonald’s. McStates are not inherently peaceful and frequently wage war against states which have not yet... Wed, 01 Jan 1997 12:00 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/1161/mcpeace