FEWER NATIONS ARE MAKING WAR Final Edition

No matter how you count it - number of deaths, number of new outbreaks of violence or severity of the violence - the evidence shows a steady downward trend in conflicts since the early 1990s. Peacemaking is prevailing over war-making. The total number of armed conflicts among and within nation-state...

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Main Authors Ernest J. Wilson and Ted Robert Gurr\ Ernest J. Wilson III is director of the University of Maryland's Center for International Development and Conflict Management, politics, and government professor Ted Robert Gurr is director of Minorities at Risk
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Memphis, Tenn Gannett Media Corp 29.08.1999
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Summary:No matter how you count it - number of deaths, number of new outbreaks of violence or severity of the violence - the evidence shows a steady downward trend in conflicts since the early 1990s. Peacemaking is prevailing over war-making. The total number of armed conflicts among and within nation-states reached a peak just before the end of the Cold War. Between 1989 and 1992, eight new ethnic wars, on average, began each year. Today, the average is two a year. The number of civil wars also has decreased since 1992. Northern Ireland has never been closer to a long-term peace. In the African Great Lakes region, Rwandans have turned from genocide to rebuilding their society, while rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo are negotiating a settlement of their grievances. In El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala, successful negotiations have ended civil wars.
ISSN:0745-4856