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Is it just me and my personal impression or did we pass a local maximum of peace after the end of the cold war and the world is becoming a worse place in recent
by danbruc 12y ago
Is it just me and my personal impression or did we pass a local maximum of peace after the end of the cold war and the world is becoming a worse place in recent years?
- idlewords 12y agoAlmost exactly the opposite is true: http://www.pcr.uu.se/digitalAssets/66/66314_1armed-conflict-by-intensity.pdf http://www.pcr.uu.se/digitalAssets/66/66314_1armed-conflict-...
- danbruc 12y agoI also searched and found this report [1] showing an increase since 2010. So it is probably more nuanced and depends on you definition of conflict. [1] http://ploughshares.ca/programs/armed-conflict/armed-conflicts-report/ http://ploughshares.ca/programs/armed-conflict/armed-conflic...
- vacri 12y agoIt's your personal impression. The Second Congo War was the deadliest war since WWII, and it started in the late 90s. The 90s had a ton of small wars, there was just little in the way of big ticket 'hollywood' wars like the US in Iraq or Afghanistan. Have a poke around these pages and see the ones you don't recall: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_wars_by_date http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists_of_wars_by_date