Armed Conflicts In Developing Countries

Armed conflict is a challenged that exist between political forces due to incompatibility which concerns governments or a struggle between different groups of people where the use of armed force between parties, of which at least one is the government of a state(Journal of Peace Research 38(5)) . Armed conflict includes enormous civilian death and human suffering. Throughout the past centuries and now in our time the 21st century, the intense increases in brutalities against civilians during armed conflict are constantly on the increase. 19% of casualties were civilians during World War I, and approximately half of World War II sufferers were non-combatant and even in the 1980s and 1990s, the majority of casualties experienced through armed conflicts (80%) were civilians (Bhutta, Yousafzai et al. 2010). When gathering the frequency consequence of violence against civilians, armed conflict is also straightforwardly linked to world poverty.

Majority of the armed conflicts of post-World War II have occurred in developing countries, from the commencement of the Cold War to the early 1990s, the amount of armed conflicts in developing countries rose surprisingly with an overwhelming momentum. (Human Security Report 2005). Asia and Africa have the largest concentration of violent conflict where both regions account for over 75% of global …show more content…
The mental and emotional effects of war on children are usually extended into adulthood. The health problems and emotional trauma caused by war have been widely expressed in the life of post war children. In prehistoric times, wars were fought on battles field and were a bit farther away from civilians but in recent centuries, most wars are being fought in the communities were children live. The battles of modern conflicts take place within countries, not between them and are fought among