Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 10/18/05 12:23 pm:
forgot my links :

http://www.unhcr.ch/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/afghan

http://www.humansecurityreport.info/index.php?option=content&task=view&id=28&Itemid=63

Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 10/19/05 7:47 am:
yeah those were my immediate thoughts . I wonder if they took into account Darfur ;Rhwanda and other genocides that happened under UN monitoring .

As for the leaders of Zimbabwe ..how many people are starving and are refugees due to his land grabs ? The same will be true in Venezuela soon where that idiot is using the same Marxist playbook. Now he has revenue from his oil wells . What will happen in a decade when the infrastructure is not maintained and his workers are not motivated ?

Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 10/19/05 8:42 am:
tom,

Here were my immediate thoughts. I love how the AP spun international terrorism as killing "extraordinarily few people compared to wars," as if we should feel bad for going to war since international terrorism is really no big deal.

The AP story reported as far as the decline of wars goes that "the single, most important factor was the liberation of the United Nations..."

"With the Security Council no longer paralyzed by Cold War politics, the U.N. spearheaded a veritable explosion of conflict prevention, peacemaking and post-conflict peace-building activities in the early 1990s," the report said.

Alrighty then...

Here's what it says:

The decline of international war

"The decline in the number of international wars since the late 1970s is associated with the demise of colonialism and the end of the Cold War. But nuclear deterrence, the spread of democracy and a growing acceptance of international law may also have helped keep the peace."

The rise and decline of civil war

"After World War II there was an unprecedented increase in the number of civil wars. But in the 1990s the number of civil wars declined even more dramatically. More democracy, less poverty and less ethnic discrimination maybe part of the explanation. But the most important factor was the end of the Cold War."

Conclusion

"Since the end of the Cold War the UN has led an upsurge of international activism that has played a critical role in reducing the number of violent conflicts."

There you have it, nuclear deterrence, more democracy, less poverty, less ethnic discrimination, the end of the Cold War all played a part - but the UN's leading an upsurge in international activism is the key.

Steve

Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 10/19/05 9:39 am:
excuse me while I gag . The UN has had to be dragged into any meaningful intervention. They dare to take any creidit to nuclear deterence or the spread of democracy ? lolol !!

and of course they would make those claims about terrorism . asymetrical warfare is the modus operandi of the block of nations that dominate the general assembly .