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Conflict Resolution Program
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What are the most common types of conflicts faced by the world today?
Wars produce the worst violations of human rights worldwide and are the greatest impediment to human development. The number of conflicts between nations has decreased since World War II, yet there have been more than 50 major armed conflicts since the Cold War ended in the late 1980s. Most of those have been internal clashes over religion, national or ethnic identity, or access to natural resources or wealth.
Some recent wars have been the bloodiest, most devastating of modern times: 4 million people killed in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2 million killed in Sudan, and genocides in Rwanda and Bosnia-Herzegovina. In 2007, 14 major armed conflicts were active in 13 locations around the world. Over the past decade the global number of active major armed conflicts has declined overall, but the decline has been very uneven, with major drops in 2002 and 2004, and an increase in 2005.
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