Conflict Profile
Afghanistan: Conflict Profile
Afghanistan has long been used as a battleground for strategic wars by larger external powers. This is in part due to its geographic position between the Middle East, Central Asia and South Asia. In addition, the fragmented and polarised nature of Afghan society, which is made up of many different ethnic groups, has lead to [...] Read more >>>
Uganda: Conflict Profile
Reigns of Terror on the Pearl of Africa. Uganda has long been deeply divided along national, religious and ethnic lines. The British rule in Uganda exacerbated and played on these divisions in order to maintain control, but while they had a relatively peaceful move to becoming an independent state in 1962, this peace was not [...] Read more >>>
Stories
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 [...] Read more >>>
Thailand: Key people and parties
Southern Insurgency 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 splinter groups exist, it is hard to determine which are smaller offshoots of larger [...] Read more >>>
Nepal: 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 [...] Read more >>>
Colombia: 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 [...] Read more >>>
Sri Lanka: Conflict Profile
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 per [...] Read more >>>
Sudan: Conflict Profile
NB: in the text which follows, The Republic of Sudan is referred to as the ‘North’ and the Republic of South Sudan is the ‘South’. ‘Sudan’ refers to the whole area. On 9 July 2011 Sudan split in two creating the world’s newest nation – the Republic of South Sudan. South Sudan’s independence was the [...] Read more >>>
Thailand: Conflict Profile
Thailand’s Southern Insurgency More than 4,400 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 [...] Read more >>>
DR Congo: 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. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, Zaire splintered into various city states which became increasingly isolated from each other as [...] Read more >>>
