Instead of decreasing, armed-conflicts have been increasing around the world. From a global standpoint, the world seems to be in a perpetual state of war. Maybe this is what World War III looks like.
IPS Inter Press Service – Guns and Roses: IPS’s Reporting On Global Armed Conflicts and Resolution Efforts Feed Summary:
The Human Security Report of 2005 identified a fall in the number of armed conflicts since the end of the Cold War. But the evidence examined in the 2008 edition of the Peace and Conflict report shows that the decline has stopped. Armed conflicts — wars, civil wars, revolts, coups, genocides, ethnic and political violence, and terrorism worldwide — are flaring up across the world. Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka, Darfur, South Ossetia, Colombia…the list of conflict-zones is long. And the poor, women, and children, are the hardest hit. With focus on human rights and development, IPS examines armed conflicts around the world and the efforts to stop them.
Global Armed Conflicts and Resolution Efforts (IPS)
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In The Eye Of A Storm - INTER PRESS SERVICE (29.07.2010 22:28h): Climate Extremes Fuel Hunger in Guatemala
"Three-quarters of the fields are still under water. Maize, plantains, okra and pasture are all lost," José Asencio told IPS at the village of Santa Ana Mixtán in southern Guatemala, the area worst affected by tropical storm Agatha. [
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CLIMATE CHANGE (13.07.2010 16:20h): Uruguay Fends Off Health Threats - So Far
The incidence of cardiovascular, respiratory and water-borne diseases is rising in Uruguay in tandem with climate change, while dengue fever and malaria lurk at the country's borders. Higher temperatures are encouraging the presence of insect vectors carrying diseases that were eradicated decades ago, experts say. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (10.07.2010 17:22h): Talks Continue on Arms Treaty, an Instrument for "Extreme Cases"
Experts from over 100 U.N. member states will convene Monday for two weeks to discuss the elements to be included in a long-awaited Arms Trade Treaty ATT - what will be a multilateral, legally-binding document regulating the transfer of conventional weapons and small and light arms. [
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Death by Remote (10.07.2010 17:22h): But Is It Legal?
As the Barack Obama administration continues to roll out justifications for its policy of targeting U.S. citizens and others thought to be attacking U.S. troops, legal and national security experts are pondering a central question: What if there's a mistake and the wrong person gets killed? [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (10.07.2010 17:22h): U.N. Chief Heading for New Brawl over Sri Lanka Panel
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is heading for a second round of political brawling with the powerful 118-member Non- Aligned Movement NAM over his decision to appoint a panel of experts to advise him on possible violations of humanitarian law by the Sri Lankan military during the concluding stages of its war against Tamil separatists last May. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (10.07.2010 17:22h): Inspectors Call Afghan Police Tracking System a Failure
A system designed to track the success of Afghan police training is deeply flawed, says a report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan SIGAR . [
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US-AFGHANISTAN (10.07.2010 17:22h): What Now?
Nearly a week after the abrupt demise of Washington's top commander in Afghanistan, U.S. strategy for reversing the flood of bad news that has been recently pouring out of that strife-torn country remains as unclear as ever. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (09.07.2010 06:26h): McChrystal Probe of SOF Killings Excluded Key Eyewitnesses
The follow-up investigation of a botched Special Operations Forces SOF raid in Gardez Feb. 12 that killed two male government officials and three female civilians, ordered by Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal Apr. 5, was ostensibly aimed at reconciling divergent Afghan and U.S. accounts of what happened during and after the raid. [
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In The Eye Of A Storm - INTER PRESS SERVICE (08.07.2010 06:38h): Bolivian Lowlands Get Life-Saving Flood Warning System
An early warning system to alert people living in the lowlands of the northern Bolivian department of Beni about imminent flooding of the mighty Mamoré and Ibare rivers is saving lives, food and goods, and overcoming the uncertainty that led to enormous losses in the past. [
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BRAZIL (01.07.2010 02:22h): Forestry Law Reforms Augur More Disasters
While the Brazilian authorities tally the death toll and the economic losses caused by recent torrential rains in the northeast, activists warn that a legislative bill to modify the Forestry Code will only worsen the effects of extreme weather, which is increasingly frequent in the context of climate change. [
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Q&A (28.06.2010 17:33h): "There Is Almost Total Impunity for Rape in Congo"
Sexual violence against women has become part of modern warfare around the world. In some countries, women cannot even go out to draw water without fear of being attacked and raped. [
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THAILAND (26.06.2010 07:05h): Government Targets Red Shirts with Harsh Law, Propaganda
With the force of an emergency law behind it, the Thai government of Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva is tightening the screws on an opposition protest movement that, if mishandled, could extract a heavy political price. [
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POLITICS (26.06.2010 07:05h): All Quiet on the Australian Front on Role in Afghanistan
The lack of debate here concerning Australia's military involvement in Afghanistan is unlikely to change in the near future despite the recent deaths of five Australian Defence Force ADF personnel in the war-ravaged nation. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): Switch to Petraeus Betrays Afghan Policy Crisis
Despite President Barack Obama's denial that his decision to fire Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal as commander in Afghanistan and replace him with Gen. David Petraeus signified any differences with McChrystal over war strategy, the decision obviously reflects a desire by Obama to find a way out of a deepening policy crisis in Afghanistan. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): U.S. Private Security in Afghanistan "Pay Off Warlords, Taliban"
Every day, as many as 260 trucks filled with supplies for U.S. troops - from muffins to fuel to armoured tanks - are driven from the Pakistani port of Karachi across the Khyber pass into Afghanistan. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): U.N. Chief Names Advisory Panel on War Abuses in Sri Lanka
Defying a challenge by the government of Sri Lanka, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon Tuesday named a three-member panel of experts to advise him on how he should proceed with investigating violations of human rights and humanitarian law during the concluding stages of that country's long-drawn-out separatist war last May. [
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FILM (24.06.2010 01:04h): A Congolese Woman's Journey of Survival and Triumph
Suffering through the atrocities of war affects people in different ways. Some become crippled by anger, others by fear. Some become violent and want only revenge. And some, like Rose Mapendo, an inspiring survivor of the war and ethnic cleansing in the Democratic Republic of Congo, come out with a strong commitment to work for peace and reconciliation. [
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BOOKS-US (24.06.2010 01:04h): The More They Promise Change…
A year and a half into the presidency of Barack Obama, any hopes that he would usher in a dramatic rethinking of U.S. foreign policy have been more or less definitively dashed. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): Hearings Reveal Lapses in Private Security in War Zones
Jerry Torres, CEO of Torres Advanced Enterprise Solutions, has a motto: "For Torres, failure is not an option." A former member of the Green Berets, one of the elite U.S. Army Special Forces, he was awarded "Executive of the Year" at the seventh annual "Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards" in November 2009. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (24.06.2010 01:04h): Fragile States Becoming More Fragile
Some of the world's weakest states are becoming ever more fragile, according to the 2010 edition of the annual "Failed States Index" FSI released here Monday by Foreign Policy magazine and the independent Fund for Peace FFP . [
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COLOMBIA (21.06.2010 15:38h): New President-Elect, Same Old Story
Former Colombian Defence Minister Juan Manuel Santos was elected president with the votes of just 30 percent of all voters on the electoral rolls, while turnout stood at a mere 45 percent in this country caught up in a civil war since 1964. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.06.2010 15:38h): Arab-Israeli Parliamentarian Fights Death Threats
"I stopped counting after I had received 50 death threats. I told my secretary not to tell me about them any more," Arab-Israeli Knesset parliament member, Haneen Zoabi told IPS. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.06.2010 15:38h): Surge of Think Tanks Blurs U.S. Policy Lines – Part 2
There has been a growing tendency in recent years for think tanks and military brass to jointly pursue policy objectives, some of which are opposed by the public or the White House. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.06.2010 15:38h): Israel Navigates Between Inquiries
Israel's easing of its land blockade of Gaza is unlikely to lessen international pressure for a change in its policies towards the Palestinians. Nor can Israel be expected to give up its battle to undermine Hamas' control of the Gaza Strip. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (21.06.2010 15:38h): Recruiters of Child Soldiers Face U.N. Sanctions
Individuals and armed groups that are considered repeat offenders in the recruitment and use of child soldiers may soon be subject to United Nations sanctions. [
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