...but on the bright side, fewer wars - by Andrew Chung The Toronto Star

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but on the bright side, fewer wars

Iraq notwithstanding, a new study shows `peacemaking' actually has an impact

Feb 04, 2007 04:30 AM
Andrew Chung
Staff Reporter
The Toronto Star

"Turn on the TV news or open a newspaper and you'll probably see carnage in Iraq, civil unrest in Lebanon, or clan clashes in Somalia. So much conflict and death. And yet, the Human Security Centre at the University of British Columbia keeps telling us the world is getting less conflicted.


In 2005, the Centre released a watershed study that showed the number of armed conflicts having plummeted 40 per cent in the world from 1992 to 2002. Now, in its latest Human Security Brief, the Centre reports that from 2002 to 2005, conflicts continued to drop another 15 per cent, from 66 to 56, with the most progress in war-torn sub-Saharan Africa.

But does this mean the world is a safer place? Via email, we asked Andrew Mack, the Centre's director.

So, there are fewer wars in the world, but is the world a safer place, what with, as the brief points out, armed conflict increasing in many regions of the world, as well as terrorism and organized violence against civilians?

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http://www.thestar.com/article/177993

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1. Imagine peace talks breaking out when Dem ? becomes President in 2008. And hold onto that feeling.

Cause we need it.