Number of conflicts in the world no longer declining
Posted on December 22, 2007 - Filed Under conflict |
The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University reported today on an alarming, but not surprising trend in global conflicts. After a precipitous and steady drop in conflicts through the 1990’s, conflicts are no longer in decline.
The report finds:
“The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the early 1990s now seems to have been broken…Since the most conflict-ridden years in the early 1990s, a continuous decline was registered up to 2002. Since that time the number has held steady at around 30 active armed conflicts per year. This is probably also the case for 2007. ‘This is of course a cause of concern. Today’s ongoing conflicts are extremely protracted,’ comment researchers Professor Peter Walensteen and Lotta Harbom. ‘This indicates that the successful negotiation efforts of the 1990s are no longer being carried out with the same force or effectiveness.â€
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