As you read this, there are more than 40 conflicts unfolding in countries around the world.
Many of them don’t get the media or policy attention of the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or Ukraine, and they may not have the same geopolitical or economic importance. But the toll of decades-long conflicts – from Colombia to the Ogaden, from Kashmir to Western Sahara – is just as devastating for the people who live there.
In the first in a series of special features, IRIN examines the root causes, human cost and potential for peace of conflicts in Casamance, South Kordofan and southern Thailand.
Many of them don’t get the media or policy attention of the wars in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan or Ukraine, and they may not have the same geopolitical or economic importance. But the toll of decades-long conflicts – from Colombia to the Ogaden, from Kashmir to Western Sahara – is just as devastating for the people who live there.
In the first in a series of special features, IRIN examines the root causes, human cost and potential for peace of conflicts in Casamance, South Kordofan and southern Thailand.
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