Last week, in part one of the review of 2017, we reviewed Rohingya Crisis, conflict in Africa, and Ukraine. This week we will address Syria and ISIS and global terrorism, completing the five topics that this blog has covered. It should be stated again that armed conflict is not a state of affairs that affects the entirety of the world but instead can be considered more in terms of hotspots of violence, or ‘badlands’ in an otherwise increasingly peaceful world. The exception to the general rule is the distinct category of violence termed terrorism, a disputed and misused term, while …read more
Source: Conflict Analysis and Resolution Information Services