11.   Police say gangs sometime use firebombings and bogus bomb threats against businesses defaulting on protection- money payments, or for other conflict situations.

12.   Straw said experience had shown that international intervention could help to lower tensions in conflict situations, but ultimately the problem could only be resolved by the rival sides.

13.   Therefore, it is always best to separate the participants in a conflict situation, or else give them minimum chances for interaction.

14.   He is the founder and director of the Frontline Fellowship, a Cape Town-based right-wing organisation devoted to spreading the Christian gospel in conflict situations.

15.   Among the topics to be discussed will be survival and protection of children in conflict situations, demobilisation of child soldiers and the rehabilitation of the affected children.

16.   COPS has a military counterpart, led by Finnish General Gustav Haegglund, that can give EU decision-makers a military perspective on conflict situations.

17.   These include poor health and education standards, conflict situations, human rights, child labour, the status of women and the environment.

18.   Salim said the meeting would be aimed at setting up an OAU system of peacekeeping forces that could intervene in conflict situations.