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Global defence spending is up 8% per year and yet it’s possible that major wars (i.e. conflicts causing 1,000+ violent deaths a year) may be declining; 10 years ago, there were 15 major wars worldwide - today, seven.

Human Rights Watch aims to focus international attention wherever human rights are violated, give voice to the oppressed and hold oppressors accountable for their crimes.

 

Activist organisations, through a series of events worldwide, are working to try to end violence against women.

Advocacy groups are increasingly sharing their ideas about how to stop, or at least limit, conflict around the world.

As border conflicts account for much of the world's military-industrial spend, it is argued that we need to understand better how people, money, power, religion, culture  interact to change the map of the world, and thereby better anticipate future geopolitical changes.

Far from causing us to become more violent, something in modernity and its cultural institutions has made us nobler, argues a world-renowned psychologist.

The world has become slightly less peaceful over the last year due in large part to the global economic crisis, says a new report that measures countries' peacefulness.

Annual world military expenditure is estimated to have reached $1339 billion, representing a 6% increase in real terms since 2006 and a 45% increase over the past decade.

Over 100 nations have signed a treaty outlawing the use of cluster munitions, although some major countries have so far refused to do so. 

A group of former child soldiers and survivors of armed conflict have launched the Network of Young People Affected by War to help similarly affected children become artists, activists, authors...whatever they wish.