Global Armed Conflicts and Resolution Efforts (IPS)

 

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 . Maybe this is what World III looks like.

IPS Inter Press ServiceĀ  – 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 report shows that the decline has stopped. Armed conflicts — wars, civil wars, revolts, coups, genocides, ethnic and political violence, and worldwide — are flaring up across the world. , Israel and Palestine, , 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.

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Jan 102010
 

Bombers

Presidents Obama, Bush, and other politicians routinely call them and their leaders evil. Others say they’re hapless dimwits lured into sacrificing themselves on the altar of jihad for the sake of remuneration or virgins in paradise. There are also theories that they’re trying to rid their countries of what they perceive as military occupations by foreign governments. Who are the suicide bombers and why do they want to kill us so bad they’re willing to blow themselves up? Why are there so many people volunteering to end their lives in such a gruesome way? Continue reading »

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