The last decade has seen fewer war deaths than any other decade in the past 100 years
"The last decade has seen fewer war deaths than any decade in the past 100 years, based on data compiled by researchers Bethany Lacina and Nils Petter Gleditsch of the Peace Research Institute Oslo. Worldwide, deaths caused directly by war-related violence in the new century have averaged about 55,000 per year, just over half of what they were in the 1990s (100,000 a year), a third of what they were during the Cold War (180,000 a year from 1950 to 1989), and a hundredth of what they were in World War II. If you factor in the growing global population, which has nearly quadrupled in the last century, the decrease is even sharper. Far from being an age of killer anarchy, the 20 years since the Cold War ended have been an era of rapid progress toward peace." Foreign Policy. 2011.
Joshua S. Goldstein, "Think Again: War," September/October 2011. Foreign Policy. May 30, 2013. http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2011/08/15/think_again_war?wp_logi...
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