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The data shows a downward trend in interstate conflicts, colonial conflicts, and per capita battle deaths since the 40's. Civil conflicts peaked in the early 9
by topleveldomain 9y ago
The data shows a downward trend in interstate conflicts, colonial conflicts, and per capita battle deaths since the 40's. Civil conflicts peaked in the early 90's, but nukes aren't a factor in those.
Source: https://files.prio.org/publication_files/prio/Gates,%20Nyg%C3%A5rd,%20Strand,%20Urdal%20-%20Trends%20in%20Armed%20Conflict,%20Conflict%20Trends%201-2016.pdf https://files.prio.org/publication_files/prio/Gates,%20Nyg%C...
- kiliantics 9y agoThere is other research[0] (also recently posted to HN, though it got a lot less traction than Gates and Pinker), that claims this trend may very likely not be there. It's very hard to prove. [0] http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat/the-focustat-blog%21/krigogfred.html http://www.mn.uio.no/math/english/research/projects/focustat...