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Global Conflicts

In: New Age Globalization

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  • Aqueil Ahmad

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From the United Nations (UN) to the Commonwealth of Nations, resolving conflicts by peaceful means is one of the primary goals of international, intergovernmental political institutions, assuming that human development without peace and security is oxymoronic as is peace without relative degrees of social and economic security. Ironically and unfortunately, their inadequacy to help peaceful resolution of global conflicts comes in sharp focus with the fact that the twentieth century was the most violent of all previous centuries in terms of its lethality. Forty-five major wars were fought in that century. Approximately 90 million people, military and civilians, lost their lives in those wars. In comparison, WWI took 19 million lives; World War II killed 61 million, including 300,000+ Americans; the Korean War alone caused 3.6 million civilian and military deaths; the Vietnam War killed millions of Vietnamese and 58,000+ Americans; and the four-year (1984–87) Iraqi-Iranian war resulted in 1.5 million (estimated) casualties including hundreds of thousands deaths on each side.1

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  • Aqueil Ahmad, 2013. "Global Conflicts," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: New Age Globalization, chapter 6, pages 155-167, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-31949-4_7
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137319494_7
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