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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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 05:00h): Bracing for a Massive Influx of Returnees
In the wake of border tensions the United Nations is airlifting 12,000 southerners from a Sudanese frontier town into South Sudan. But they are returning home in the midst of an economic crisis that has the U.N. warning it may appeal for more funding to scale up humanitarian operations. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 05:00h): NATO's Twin Crises
It's not an easy time for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO . [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 05:00h): Ratko Mladic Goes on Trial for Genocide
The trial of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serb army chief accused of orchestrating war crimes and a campaign of genocide, has begun at a special U.N. court at The Hague in the Netherlands. [
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OP-ED (18.05.2012 05:00h): Arab Autocrats Aiding Resurgence of Terrorism
The rising spectre of terrorism in Syria shows that by clinging to power and refusing to implement meaningful reforms, Arab autocrats in Syria, Bahrain, and elsewhere are indirectly contributing to the resurgence of terrorism in their societies. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 05:00h): "Small Five" Challenge "Big Five" Over Veto Powers
The 193-member General Assembly is expected to vote on a resolution - described as "historic" - requesting the five permanent members P5 of the Security Council to consider "refraining from using their vetoes on action aimed at preventing or ending genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity". [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 05:00h): Recovering From the Spring, at a Price
The Arab Spring sent scores of sick and injured Libyans, fleeing their war- torn country, straight to Jordan, where the influx of patients is putting a lot of pressure on Jordanian hospitals and disrupting the lives of Libyan and Jordanian patients alike. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 05:00h): War Widows Turn to Sex Work in Sri Lanka
On May 18, some 800 women in Sri Lanka's northern region will hold Hindu religious ceremonies for the welfare of thier husbands who disappeared or surrendered to the military as it moved in to mop up nearly three decades of armed Tamil separatism. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 05:00h): Bomb Hits Syrian Truck Escorting U.N. Convoy
A roadside bomb struck a Syrian military truck near Deraa, wounding six soldiers just seconds after a convoy carrying the head of the U.N. observer mission passed by. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 05:00h): Caste Blocks Revamp of Nepal's Sex Workers
Social activists say that attempts to rehabilitate sex workers in this former monarchy call for special efforts to uplift the Badi, a Hindu caste that has for centuries been associated with entertainment and prostitution. [
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GUINEA-BISSAU-MALI (18.05.2012 04:59h): ECOWAS Talking Softer, But Still Holding Big Stick
Regional leaders meeting in the Senegalese capital, Dakar, on May 3 appeared to slightly retreat from their positions against coup leaders in Guinea-Bissau and Mali, but the Economic Community of West African States continues to press for a speedy return to constitutional rule in both countries. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 04:59h): Child Soldiers Used in Mali Conflict
It was tough for Hassan Toure to decide to stay in his small town on the outskirts of Kidal, in northern Mali. The government troops had withdrawn on Mar. 30, and several armed groups, including militias and bandits, were operating in the region. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (18.05.2012 04:59h): Disarmament Sparks Violence in South Sudan
Civil society groups are calling on the United Nations peacekeeping mission to withdraw support from a disarmament programme they say could spark further violence in South Sudan's volatile Jonglei state. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (03.05.2012 16:06h): Refugees Dream of Return, Come Home to Nightmare
Krishnaveni Nakkeeran has fled the country of her birth twice and returned twice in the last two decades. The 36-year-old mother of four from the northern Jaffna peninsula in Sri Lanka first fled the bloody civil war to India when she was just 16 years old in 1990. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.05.2012 18:12h): U.S.-Afghan Pact Won't End War – Or SOF Night Raids
The optics surrounding the Barack Obama administration's "Enduring Strategic Partnership" agreement with Afghanistan and the Memorandums of Understanding accompanying it emphasise transition to Afghan responsibility and an end to U.S. war. [
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U.S. (02.05.2012 18:12h): Israeli Dissent May Create More Space for Iran Nuclear Deal
The threat of a military attack on Iran's nuclear facilities this year appears to have substantially subsided over the past several weeks as a result of several developments, including the biting criticisms voiced recently by former top national security figures of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his defence minister, Ehud Barak. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.05.2012 18:12h): U.S Government Admits to Drone Attacks
In a major address here Monday, John Brennan, the U.S. official in charge of counterterrorism, formally admitted that the United States engages in attacks using armed unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly referred to as "drones". [
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COLOMBIA (02.05.2012 18:12h): Missing French Reporter's Journalistic Mission
Romeo Langlois, a French reporter in Colombia, removed his helmet and bullet-proof vest and ran towards the guerrillas during fighting between them and Colombian army troops on Saturday, Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón reported. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (02.05.2012 18:12h): Mali Heading Closer to Civil War
Since January, various groups of Tuareg rebels in Mali have come together in an attempt to administer a new northern state called Azawad. [
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In The Eye Of A Storm - INTER PRESS SERVICE (30.04.2012 08:17h): Women in Brazil Turn to Eco-Friendly Farming in Wake of Storms
In the green belt of market gardens that feeds the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro, women farmers are learning environmentally friendly techniques in response to extreme weather events and their effects on the land. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (28.04.2012 17:30h): Hit by Fighting, Now by Prices
As thousands of people flee the conflict in South Sudan's northern border states, increasing numbers have also been forced to leave their homes and towns in search of affordable food. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (28.04.2012 16:55h): Ultimatum and Military Option From ECOWAS to Avoid Stalemate
Rebel leaders in Guinea-Bissau have released the country's prime minister and interim president, who were arrested in the country's Apr. 12 coup, and have flown them to Côte d'Ivoire. [
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In The Eye Of A Storm - INTER PRESS SERVICE (27.04.2012 18:45h): Buenos Aires Unprepared for More Intense Storms**
The 18 deaths caused by a storm that hit Buenos Aires earlier this month tragically demonstrate the lack of preparedness for the ever more frequent and powerful weather events faced by the Argentine capital and its suburbs. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (27.04.2012 14:00h): Taking Solace from a Verdict that Can't Bring Back Loved Ones
Saffa Momoh Lahai was just two years old when his father was killed during Sierra Leone's civil war. Rebels attacked their family home in Kailahun District, in the eastern reaches of the country, and shot Lahai's father when he tried to resist. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (27.04.2012 14:00h): Malaria Adds to Myanmar's Woes
Political reforms unfolding in Myanmar or Burma are giving health workers a chance to address a resurgence of drug-resistant falciparum malaria in the war-torn ethnic minority enclaves along the country's eastern borders. [
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Guns n Roses: Armed Conflicts / Resolution Efforts - INTER PRESS SERVICE (26.04.2012 23:40h): U.S. Escalating Drone War in Yemen
Even as President Barack Obama touts his progress in extracting the U.S. from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, his administration appears to be deepening its covert and military involvement in
strife-torn Yemen. [
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