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Uppsala Universitet: Number of conflicts in the world no longer declining [LINK-ZUM]

The trend toward fewer conflicts reported by peace researchers since the early 1990s now seems to have been broken. [...] Since the most conflict-ridden years in the early 1990s, a continuous decline was registered up to 2002. Since that time the number has held steady at around 30 active armed conflicts per year. This is probably also the case for 2007. [...] The Middle East is the region in which peace initiatives are most clearly conspicuous in their absence. The central importance of the region for the world's oil supply and for world religions makes this serious.

[Article continues at link. There are some limited tools at our disposal to change our dependence on oil. Where appropriate, we should employ them and thereby lessen that specific cause of war. There are 100% effective tools at our disposal to change our dependence on religion. They are called atheism and secular humanism. If we fail to employ them and thereby lessen that specific cause of war, perhaps we are not deserving of peace. - Trevor Blake]

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