Preface by Dr. James Orbinski, MD
Former International President, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (1998 to 2001)

Report Summary

Maps and Charts   

Armed Conflicts in 2008
(With hotlinks to 2008 conflict descriptions)

Peace Operations in Countries Not in Armed Conflict

The Impact of Peacebuilding: Armed Conflicts in Decline

How Terrorist Groups End 1968-2006

World Military Spending 2007

The Breadth of Armed Violence

Nuclear Weapons and Nuclear-Weapon-Free Zones 2008

Conflict Summaries 

Africa

Algeria   Burundi   Chad  Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)  
Ethiopia  Kenya  Nigeria  Somalia  Sudan  Sudan-Darfur  Uganda

Asia

Afghanistan  Burma (Myanmar)  India-Kashmir  India-Maoist insurgency
India-Northeast  Nepal   Pakistan  Philippines-CPP/NPA  Philippines-Mindanao  
Sri Lanka  Thailand

Europe

Russia-Chechnya 

The Americas

Colombia      

Middle East

Iraq  Israel-Palestine  Turkey (2003-)  Yemen

Recently Ended Armed Conflicts

Angola  Angola-Cabinda  Cambodia  Congo   Cote d'Ivoire  Egypt   Ethiopia/Eritrea   Guinea  Haiti 
India-Gujarat  Indonesia-Aceh  Indonesia-East Timor  Indonesia-West Papua (Irian Jaya)  
Indonesia-Kalimantan Indonesia-Molucca Islands   Indonesia-Sulawesi   Iran  Iraq-Kurds   Iraq-Shia Muslims 
Israel-Lebanon  Liberia   Peru   Rwanda   Senegal   Serbia and Montenegro (ex-Yugoslavia)-Kosovo  
Sierra Leone   South Africa   Tajikistan   Turkey (1984-2002)

Sources

Poster

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