Global political violence

As the year moved to a close, the crisis in Darfur had spilled into Chad, fighting erupted After the end of the Cold War, the number of violent between Ethiopia and the Union of Islamic Courts in conflicts being waged around the world began to Somalia, while sectarian violence in Iraq continued to decline rapidly, dropping by some 40 percent between escalate with no sign of resolution. [...] The most of the increase in conflict numbers up to the end biggest decline by far was in sub-Saharan Africa where of the Cold War—and most of the subsequent the number of “non–state conflicts” decreased from decrease. [...] Second, the end of the Cold War, which had • An eleven-fold increase in the number of driven approximately one-third of all conflicts in the “Friends of the Secretary General” and other post-World War II period, removed another source of mechanisms designed to support local actors in conflict from the international system.2 A pervasive ending wars and preventing them from driver of ideological riv [...] There was Other Explanations for the Post-Cold War Decline in a dramatic increase in conflict numbers in the political Armed Conflict turmoil that followed the break-up of the Soviet The downturn in political violence that has occurred Union and the ending of superpower rivalries in the since the early 1990s cannot be explained by the shifts developing world. [...] In the 1990s, the number of anocracies and inclusive democracies increased, thus making any determination of the impact of these political changes on the risk of conflict impossible to determine.