2. Armed conflict »
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Chapter: 2. Armed conflict
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2014
Author: Neil Melvin
OverviewThere has been an overall decline in ‘peacefulness’ in recent years, as measured by the indicators of the Global Peace Index (seesectionIVin this chapter). This has been paralleled by an upward trend in fatalities caused by state-based conflicts (seesectionIII). Some regions of the world, notably the Middle East, have experienced significant rises in the number of battle-related deaths. There has also been a rise in internationalized intrastate conflict. These developments suggest a worrying upward trend in lethal violence related to state-based conflicts.In the post-cold war period, a leading response of the
2. Armed conflict »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780198712596.003.0003
Chapter: 2. Armed conflict
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2014
Author: Neil Melvin, Isak Svensson, Magnus Lundgren, Peter Wallensteen, Patrik Johansson, Lotta Themnér, Camilla Schippa, Daniel Hyslop
NeilMelvinIsakSvenssonMagnusLundgrenPeterWallensteenPatrikJohanssonLottaThemnérCamillaSchippaDanielHyslopOxChapML2.27OUP TCI20140403.0Medicine-USSIPRI Yearbook Series2. Armed conflictOverviewThere has been an overall decline in ‘peacefulness’ in recent years, as measured by the indicators of the Global Peace Index (seesectionIVin this chapter). This has been paralleled by an upward trend in fatalities caused by state-based conflicts (seesectionIII). Some regions of the world, notably the Middle East, have experienced significant rises in the number of battle-related deaths. There has also been a rise
4. Armed conflict »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780198737810.003.0004
Chapter: 4. Armed conflict
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2015
Author: Peter Wallensteen
PeterWallensteenOxChapML2.27OUP TCI20150902.0SIPRIMedicine-UKSIPRI Yearbook SeriesNewgen4. Armed conflictOverviewThis chapter reports on recent developments in peace and conflict trends, focusing primarily on data collected through 2013. Based on its preliminary findings, the Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) reported in early 2015 that there were more wars in 2014 than any other year since year 2000. Several other sources subsequently made similar observations: violence increased in 2014. In retrospect, 2014 may stand out as a particularly distressing year. However, there were few, if any, predictive indicators of the violence that unfolded
3. Armed conflict and instability in the Middle East and North Africa »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780198811800.003.0003
Chapter: 3. Armed conflict and instability in the Middle East and North Africa
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2017
Author: Ian Davis, Dan Smith, Pieter D. Wezeman
IanDavisDanSmithPieter D.WezemanOxChapML2.50OUP TCI20170607.0SIPRIMedicine-UKSIPRI Yearbook SeriesNewgen3. Armed conflict and instability in the Middle East and North AfricaOverviewThe Middle East and North Africa (MENA) remained at the heart of global security concerns throughout 2016. A variety of factors explain the region’s seemingly chronic insecurity and persistent susceptibility to armed conflict. These include governance failures in most Arab countries, the still-unfolding consequences of the 2003 invasion of Iraq by the US-led coalition and the complex relations and rivalries among regional powers. In 2016 at least 7
2. Armed conflict and peace processes »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780198811800.003.0002
Chapter: 2. Armed conflict and peace processes
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2017
Author: Ian Davis
IanDavisOxChapML2.50OUP TCI20170607.0SIPRIMedicine-UKSIPRI Yearbook SeriesNewgen2. Armed conflict and peace processesOverviewThis chapter reports on recent trends in armed conflict and peace processes. InsectionIthe Uppsala Conflict Data Program (UCDP) provides an overview of the past ten years of active armed conflicts, with a focus on 2016. The number of active armed conflicts decreased from 52 to 49 in 2016. Despite this reduction, 2016 is part of a trend towards a significantly larger number of conflicts in the past three years compared to the period 2007–13. Compared across
2. Armed conflict and peace processes »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780198839996.003.0002
Chapter: 2. Armed conflict and peace processes
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2019
Author: Ian Davies
IanDaviesOxChapML2.50OUP TCI20190605.0SIPRIMedicine-UKSIPRI Yearbook SeriesNewgen2. Armed conflict and peace processesOverviewThis chapter describes developments in 2018 in armed conflicts and peace processes. It is structured regionally (the Americas, Asia and Oceania, Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, and sub-Saharan Africa). Key examples are discussed based on academic and technical publications, news reports and conflict-related databases. The chapter does not cover all organized armed violence and largely excludes criminal violence, the main exception being some events in the Americas, discussed insectionII.SectionIexplores definitions and
4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and Oceania »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780198869207.003.0004
Chapter: 4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and Oceania
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2020
Author: Ian Davis
IanDavisOxChapML2.50OUP TCI20200603.0SIPRIMedicine-UKSIPRI Yearbook SeriesNewgen4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and OceaniaOverviewSeven countries in Asia and Oceania experienced active armed conflicts in 2019—three in South Asia: Afghanistan (major internationalized civil war), India (high-intensity interstate border and subnational armed conflicts) and Pakistan (high-intensity interstate border and subnational armed conflicts); and four in South East Asia: Indonesia (low-intensity subnational armed conflict), Myanmar (high-intensity subnational armed conflict), the Philippines (high-intensity subnational armed conflict) and Thailand (low-intensity subnational armed conflict). Two emerging trends remained cause for concern in 2019: (a)
4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and Oceania »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780192847577.003.0004
Chapter: 4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and Oceania
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2021
Author: Ian Davis
IanDavisOxChapML2.50OUP TCI20210602.0SIPRIMedicine-UKSIPRI Yearbook SeriesNewgen4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and OceaniaOverviewSeven countries in Asia and Oceania experienced active armed conflicts in 2020 (the same as in 2019)—three in South Asia (sectionII): Afghanistan (major internationalized civil war), India (high-intensity interstate border and subnational armed conflicts) and Pakistan (low-intensity interstate border and subnational armed conflicts); and four low-intensity subnational armed conflicts in South East Asia (sectionIII): Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand. Total conflict-related fatalities in Asia and Oceania fell by
4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and Oceania »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780192883032.003.0004
Chapter: 4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and Oceania
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2022
Author: Ian Davis
IanDavisOxChapML2.50OUP TCI20220601.0SIPRIMedicine-UKSIPRI Yearbook SeriesNewgen4. Armed conflict and peace processes in Asia and OceaniaOverviewNine countries in Asia and Oceania experienced active armed conflicts in 2021 (two more than in 2020). These consisted of three in South Asia (sectionIII), namely Afghanistan (major internationalized civil war), India (low-intensity combined interstate border and subnational armed conflicts) and Pakistan (high-intensity combined interstate border and subnational armed conflicts); four in South East Asia (sectionIV), namely a major armed conflict in Myanmar and low-intensity subnational armed conflicts in
5. Armed conflict and peace processes in Europe »
Type: chapter
DOI: 10.1093/sipri/9780198869207.003.0005
Chapter: 5. Armed conflict and peace processes in Europe
Source: SIPRI Yearbook 2020
Author: Ian Davis
IanDavisOxChapML2.50OUP TCI20200603.0SIPRIMedicine-UKSIPRI Yearbook SeriesNewgen5. Armed conflict and peace processes in EuropeOverviewOne armed conflict was active in Europe in 2019: the low-intensity internationalized, subnational armed conflict in Ukraine. Since April 2014 this armed conflict between Ukrainian Government forces and Russian-backed separatists has led to about 13 000 deaths (at least 3330 civilians and approximately 9670 combatants), but since 2018 combat-related deaths have been much lower: estimated at 405 in 2019, down from 886 in 2018.Political changes in Ukraine during 2019, and especially the presidential victory by Volodymyr Zelensky