davidbfpo
04-28-2017, 07:55 PM
Discovered via Twitter an overview from IRIN:
As you read this, there are more than 40 conflicts unfolding in countries around the world. Many of them don’t get the media or policy attention of the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or Ukraine, and they may not have the same geopolitical or economic importance. But the toll of decades-long conflicts – from Colombia to the Ogaden, from Kashmir to Western Sahara – is just as devastating for the people who live there.
In a series of special features, IRIN examines the root causes, human cost and potential for peace of conflicts in Myanmar, Casamance, South Kordofan, southern Thailand, and Mindanao in the Philippines.Link:https://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/forgotten-conflicts
There is a good graphic too, the larger the dot, the longer the conflict:http://www.irinnews.org/maps-and-graphics/2017/04/04/updated-mapped-world-war
Elsewhere there has been exchange why for two examples: act in Syria when the DRC (Congo) is a far bigger human disaster?
There is a separate thread in the Historians arena also on Forgotten Conflicts, there is no overlap when checked:Small, Forgotten Small Wars (http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/Small, Forgotten Small Wars)
As you read this, there are more than 40 conflicts unfolding in countries around the world. Many of them don’t get the media or policy attention of the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or Ukraine, and they may not have the same geopolitical or economic importance. But the toll of decades-long conflicts – from Colombia to the Ogaden, from Kashmir to Western Sahara – is just as devastating for the people who live there.
In a series of special features, IRIN examines the root causes, human cost and potential for peace of conflicts in Myanmar, Casamance, South Kordofan, southern Thailand, and Mindanao in the Philippines.Link:https://www.irinnews.org/in-depth/forgotten-conflicts
There is a good graphic too, the larger the dot, the longer the conflict:http://www.irinnews.org/maps-and-graphics/2017/04/04/updated-mapped-world-war
Elsewhere there has been exchange why for two examples: act in Syria when the DRC (Congo) is a far bigger human disaster?
There is a separate thread in the Historians arena also on Forgotten Conflicts, there is no overlap when checked:Small, Forgotten Small Wars (http://council.smallwarsjournal.com/Small, Forgotten Small Wars)