The causes of peace and the shrinking costs of war
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The causes of peace and the shrinking costs of war
(Human security report, 2009/2010)
Published for the Human Security Report Project, Simon Fraser University , Oxford University Press, 2011
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Description
The Human Security Report 2009/2010 argues that long-term trends are reducing the risks of both international and civil wars. The Report, which is funded by the governments of Canada, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom and will be published by Oxford University Press, also examines recent developments that suggest the world is becoming a more dangerous place. These include the following:
-Four of the world's five deadliest conflicts-in Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and Somalia-involve Islamist insurgents.
-Over a quarter of the conflicts that started between 2004 and 2008 have been associated with Islamist political violence.
-In the post-Cold War period a greater percentage of the world 's countries have been involved in wars than at any time since the end of World War II.
-Armed conflict numbers increased by 25 percent from 2003 to 2008 after declining for more than ten years.
-Intercommunal and other conflicts that do not involve a government increased by more than 100 percent from 2007 to 2008.
-The impact of the global economic crisis on developing countries risks generating political instability and increasing the risk of war.
-Wars have become "intractable"-i.e., more difficult to bring to an end.
Table of Contents
- Overview
- Part I - The Causes of Peace
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Why International Wars Are Increasingly Rare
- Chapter 2: The Causes of War and Peace: A Nontechnical Guide to Recent Research Findings
- Chapter 3: The East Asian Peace: Explaining the Remarkable Decline in Political Violence in Northeast and Southeast Asia
- Chapter 4: The Decline in Civil Wars
- Part II - The Shrinking Costs of War
- Introduction
- Chapter 5: Deadly Connections: Wartime Violence and <"Indirect Deaths>"
- Chapter 6: The Paradox of Mortality Rates that Decline in Wartime
- Chapter 7: The Death Toll in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
- Chapter 8: Can Retrospective Mortality Surveys Be Used to Determine Excess Death Tolls?
- Chapter 9: Armed Conflict and Health Policy
- Part III - Trends in Human Insecurity
- Introduction
- Chapter 10: State-based Armed Conflict
- Chapter 11: Non-State Armed Conflict
- Chapter 12: Assaults on Civilians
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