Warfare is Down

JPII cautiously predicted a bright future for the 21st century. Among popes, he was the most pacifistic. Perhaps a new study supports his hope and his pacifism:

Widespread fears about a world in a perpetual state of war are unfounded, a study says today. It emphasises that the number of conflicts between nations, civil wars, battle deaths, coups and genocides has been falling steeply for more than a decade.

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