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You’re Right: The World Is Getting More Violent | InkStick
Source: InkStick | 6 February 2024
Our news is likely filled with reports of rising violence. And you’re right: global rates of conflict are rising — dramatically.
In fact, many more crises are emerging and doing more damage than they used to: an unprecedented 1,200 Israelis were killed by Palestinians in one day in the Oct. 7 attack; equally unprecedented are the 25,000 Palestinian deaths in Gaza that have followed. The images proliferate: gangs marauding on live television in Ecuador; reports of mass killings in Sudan; Iranian and Yemeni strikes and counter-strikes.
Overall, global conflict rates increased 12% in 2023, with more than 15,000 additional attacks, bombings and assaults compared to 2022. This adds to the 32% increase in 2022 from 2021, when the Ukraine war assumed close to 28% of the global conflict share. One in six of us is living in an area of active conflict.
