First, the good news: In general, as a global trend, the prevalence of armed conflict has been reducing consistently throughout the twenty-first century, with less deaths overall and a reduction of inter-state conflict. Data from the Global Peace Index demonstrates that this continued into 2016, and while we await reports for 2017, this trend is likely to continue and, at worst, there would be a slight increase.
It seems worse for two reasons. The first is that the media, by its nature, will lean towards reporting newsworthy events of interest to their viewers, usually of the bad variety. They are sometimes …read more
Source: Conflict Analysis and Resolution Information Services