We’re Seeing a Trend Toward Less Violence in the World

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We’re Seeing a Trend Toward Less Violence in the World

At an event in May, President Obama noted: "The world is less violent than it has ever been." It might seem difficult to reconcile this sentiment with daily horrors in the Middle East, terrorist attacks and other media-hyped doom and gloom. But he's right: Though violent conflicts still happen around the world, the broad trend lines are all in the right direction.

The number of conflicts, whether between states or within them, has fallen dramatically in recent decades. Between 1990-2014, the overall number of conflicts fell 40 percent. And while there will always be extreme cases like the violence in Syria, today's conflicts in general have lower levels of violence. Perhaps more important, modern wars tend to be small and localized; the most destructive and costly kind of war -- conflict between great power states -- has not occurred for more than 60 years. Even terrorism is far less of a concern than many assume, particularly for those who live outside war zones. For an American, the odds of dying in a terrorist attack is an astronomically unlikely one in 45 million.

To be sure, there are still intractable conflicts in the Middle East, Latin America and elsewhere. Colombia may have reached a tentative peace deal, but diplomats have so far been unable to find peaceful resolution to conflicts in Syria, Yemen, Ukraine and elsewhere. Political science research suggests that some of these will be difficult to resolve: Studies show that the average civil war lasts about 10 years, and can be worsened by the involvement of external states, a fact that goes some way toward explaining the Syrian quagmire. But these contemporary conflicts simply cannot compare to the carnage of the two World Wars, or the Cold War threat of nuclear annihilation.

Over the long-term, the president is right. The world is trending away from violence.

We're Seeing a Trend Toward Less Violence in the World - NYTimes.com
 

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It is the most violent its ever been..
what with the obama admin's creation of ISUS, and with the US trying to start WW3 with the Russians, and all...
 

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link please

Global forced displacement hits record high
UNHCR Global Trends report finds 65.3 million people, or one person in 113, were displaced from their homes by conflict and persecution in 2015.
UNHCRÂ*- Global forced displacement hits record high

I'll go first and show you how it's done

...and yes, deaths are down only because governments (socialist ones and communist ones are the worst) commited record amounts of murder in the last century (DEMOCIDE, it's called).
Warfair NOW, is asymmetric, and has to be measured in applicable metrics


"Just this week, John McCain bragged about an additional $1.3 billion to provide more weapons to Syrian jihadists, and to provide border security. Not in Arizona, but in Lebanon and Jordan.
http://allnewspipeline.com/Bombshell_Evidence_Obama_Clinton_Created_ISIS.php

the song bird bragging about the bipartisan arming of ISUS
 
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mentalfloss

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That's not violence and it's actually a better resolution than the Trump method of forcing them to stay and die.
 

Danbones

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ASYMMETRIC warfare:
REFUGEES are the new weapon..
That's the only reason deaths are down, It's a question of quo Bono, and profits
and its the way to destroy the freedom loving middle class, and knock everything down to the lowest form of serfdumb
GLOBALLY


Now the question is: what med would i have to take to get down to your level...
Gnit-ing needle to the frontal lobe...?

lol
 

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"ISIS’ New Top Military Commander Was Trained In U.S. By Blackwater And State Department

Former Tajikistan Special Forces colonel, Gulmurod Khalimov, defected to the ranks of ISIS last year and publicly declared jihad against the West. After being trained in the United States by private military contractor Blackwater, Khalimov has reportedly been promoted from within the Islamic State organization and has been named the new chief military commander for the global terror group.

“There’s information in the Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) that Tajik Gulmurod Khalimov was named the new chief military commander of ISIS, after the murder of the previous leader Abu Omar al-Shishani,” a source in Nineveh province, where ISIS stronghold of Mosul is located, told Iraqi Al Sumaria.

The new Islamic State battlefield commander is certainly no stranger to U.S. military and intelligence officials. Former Tajik Special Forces colonel Gulmurod Khalimov reportedly received special counterterrorism training through the U.S. State Department’s Diplomatic Security/Anti-Terrorism Assistance program and received training in Baton Rouge, Louisiana prior to his joining the Islamic State."
ISIS' New Top Military Commander was Trained in U.S. by Blackwater and State Department

defected haha, lol...now to get bombed by more supplies and go make some more refugees to invade and wreck the EU...
muahahahaha...

hot off the press, but old news

Walter gets it.

ummm....
he is a agreeing with a Lieberal
possibly there is a catch....

say, is that Ronald Reagon I see ..."bring down that wall!"?
 

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Do you just read headlines?


Only when the headlines confirm everything I see and hear about. To wit Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Turkey, Israel, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and all the shenanigans ISIS is up to! Do I really need to do more reading? :) :)
 

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Only when the headlines confirm everything I see and hear about. To wit Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Libya, Turkey, Israel, Ukraine, Saudi Arabia and all the shenanigans ISIS is up to! Do I really need to do more reading? :) :)
Might could wanna do some counting. What we call a "war" today is a half-hearted effort by the major powers against a few handfuls of raggedyass barbarians. Compare that to Vietnam, or Korea, or any of the three world wars.
 

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Might could wanna do some counting. What we call a "war" today is a half-hearted effort by the major powers against a few handfuls of raggedyass barbarians. Compare that to Vietnam, or Korea, or any of the three world wars.


And then there's dozens of individual suicide bombers, incidents of cops shooting black (and white guys) on the street because of perceived threat that can often be avoided in the first place. I hear you re the big wars but as far as individual safety on the streets we're headed in the wrong direction. I think your chances of getting mugged are greater now than at any time during Vietnam or W.W.2.

"Peace in our time."


According to one of the most useless d inks of the 20th Century...................Neville Chamberlain! :) :) :)