11.   Biologists think that the human animal may have evolved this way to end conflicts quickly.

12.   Ending this conflict was his main, at times his sole, preoccupation.

13.   THE Union of Welsh Independents, which meets at Wrexham today, will debate a motion that has the long-term aim of ending ethnic conflict in the world.

14.   President Bush has told the United Nations that if Iraq pulls out of Kuwait, it could end conflict between the Arabs and the Israelis.

15.   America just told Israel publicly that it must end settlements, end the occupation and accept a Palestinian state to end the conflict.

16.   Annan met late last week with German and Russian leaders, including Chernomyrdin, but returned to New York with no concrete proposals for ending the conflict.

17.   As NATO strikes against Serb forces stretched into their ninth week Wednesday, diplomatic efforts to end the conflict picked up steam.

18.   At a Bonn meeting of the Group of Seven industrial nations, plus Russia, the first joint statement about ending the conflict in Kosovo was issued.

19.   At his news conference he all but offered to get involved in helping to end the conflict over Kashmir.

20.   Belgrade also wants to begin the return of Serbs who fled Kosovo after the war, as called for under the U.N. Security Council resolution that ended the conflict.