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...United Nations are devoted to it. I fervently believe that the world is a better place because of the United Nations and what it does and how it works.
Sometimes the number of trees can crowd out the view of the forest as a whole. At any given time, the challenges that confront us on a daily basis are so enormous, so grave and overpowering, that we tend to overlook the gains and progress that accumulate over time. It was useful to be reminded of this through the inaugural Human Security Report 2005, which exploded the widely believed myths about wars, deaths caused by conflicts, genocide, terrorism and the United Nations effectiveness.
The number of armed conflicts rose steadily until the end of the cold war and peaked in the early 1990s, but has declined since then. Genocides, international crises, military coups and human rights abuses are down as well. The nature of armed conflicts has also changed; although often brutal, today's wars typically kill fewer people. There has also been a shift in where wars are being fought. More people are being killed in Africa's wars today than in the rest of the world combined. Moreover, violent...
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