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The trend looks good: https://ourworldindata.org/genocides/ https://ourworldindata.org/genocides/ According to that source, in 2012, for the first time in at l
by michaelkeenan 9y ago
The trend looks good: https://ourworldindata.org/genocides/ https://ourworldindata.org/genocides/
According to that source, in 2012, for the first time in at least a hundred years, there were no ongoing genocides.
- zitterbewegung 9y agoNot aware of that. Thanks for pointing it out!
- ktRolster 9y agoWorth also mentioning that war itself is kind of petering out: http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2014/12/141209_Charts-armedconflicts.jpg.CROP.promovar-mediumlarge.jpg http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/articles/news_and_pol...
- spangry 9y agoWell, that's kinda encouraging. Interesting to see the number of genocides fall off starting in 1989. Maybe normal statistical variation + dissolution of the Soviet Union at the end of 1991?
- skybrian 9y agoBack up to 2 again in 2015. Not obviously any progress since 2000. Also, here are some numbers on famine: Data Dive: Slipping into famine http://www.reuters.com/article/us-datadive-famine-idUSKBN18M1FQ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-datadive-famine-idUSKBN18M...
- kiliantics 9y agoThey must have not counted ISIS killings then, among others, which I would have thought are considered genocidal.
- briantakita 9y agoYazidis' & Yemenis' to name a couple? What about China's oppression of certain religious groups such as Falun Gong & Buddhists?