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From the Editors Burundi Early Warning Election Project, April 2010 The last couple of years have seen a number of highly impressive developments in the use of mobile phones to monitor conflicts and humanitarian disasters. Now, the African Great Lakes Initiative (AGLI) of the Friends Peace Teams has created the Burundi Early Warning Project to [...]
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Posts Tagged ‘Conflict Profile’
Key People and Parties: The Main Players
Southern based militant groups function within a fluid and dynamic system. Broadly speaking they share similar objectives – an independent or relatively autonomous status for Pattani – however they differ widely in their approaches and capabilities. Whilst many tens of splitter groups exist, this section includes the main four groups that are currently active: Abhisit [...]
Conflict Profile
In 2006 a Comprehensive Peace Agreement ended a decade long conflict between the Maoists, the government and monarchy, and a popular pro-democracy uprising in Nepal that claimed over 13,000 lives and displaced thousands more. 2008 elections gave the Maoists a majority in government and, after a 240-year reign, the monarchy was abolished. The situation in [...]
Conflict Profile
Almost 50 years of armed conflict Colombia is in the midst of an almost 50-year conflict between the government and several guerrilla groups. The human impact of the conflict has been enormous, with at least 50,000 lives lost to date, and one of the world’s largest populations of internally displaced people – many of whom [...]
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The Roots of the Conflict Tensions in Sri Lanka first boiled over into a civil war in 1983, but the roots of the conflict extend far further than that. The conflict takes its roots from the tensions between the mainly Buddhist Sinhalese majority and the mainly Hindu Tamil minority, who now make up 82% and [...]
Conflict Profile
The recent crisis in Darfur has caught the world’s attention, with the US labelling it a ‘genocide’ and the UN declaring it the ‘world’s worst humanitarian crisis’, it is however by no means the only conflict to affect the Sudanese people. Decades of violence during the North-South civil war followed by a fragile peace agreement mean that the [...]
Conflict Profile
Thailand’s Southern Insurgency More than 4,000 people have been killed and thousands more injured in Thailand’s southernmost border provinces since a decades-long separatist insurgency reignited in 2004. Since then attacks on government sector services have become endemic. As well as state officials and security forces, local villagers, both Buddhist and Muslim, have also been targeted [...]
Conflict Profile
The origins of conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) – formerly Zaire – are rooted both in the 32 years of Mobutu rule and in the lack of national cohesion since independence from Belgium in 1960. However, the conflict is also intimately connected to the 1994 genocide in neighbouring Rwanda, where some 800,000 [...]
Conflict Profile
The war in Bosnia (1992-1995) was the most bloody of the conflicts that took place with the breakup of Yugoslavia. The vicious conflict split the state largely (though not exclusively) along ethnic lines, with nationalist parties and then armies representing Serbs, Croatians and the predominantly Muslim Bosniak populations. The Bosnian War left an estimated 100,000 [...]
Conflict profile
The war in Kosovo in 1998-99 followed almost a decade of Serbian repression and predominantly non-violent resistance from the majority Albanian population. Backed by Western Europe and the United States, Kosovo declared independence in 2008. NATO troops (KFOR) will remain in the country to provide security for the many large-scale infrastructure, governance and development programmes. [...]
