This age cohort was not much influenced by the Arab Israeli wars or the East West conflict.

Given the West s record of horrendous warfare and often brutal imperialism, this seems unlikely.

The Italian Renaissance peaked in the mid 16th century as foreign invasions plunged the region into the turmoil of the Italian Wars.

Poverty has exacerbated the trauma of Iraq s violent history of wars and atrocities, which has desensitized people to killing.

While we have largely succeeded in reducing and phasing out inter State conflicts, too many people today still know of and suffer from wars.

Similarly, the Organization's work to improve governance throughout the developing world and to rebuild the rule of law and State institutions in war torn countries is vital to ensuring that democracy takes root and endures.

Assist governments of war affected countries, upon their request, in the confiscating and disposal of small arms and light weapons used to inflict harm and violence in particular against women and children.

We also continue to face the threat posed by terrorism in all its forms and manifestations, the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and the untenable situation of those large sectors of humanity that are affected by civil war and less than acceptable human rights practices.

So the object of international law is not to ban unjust wars and permit just ones, but to assure that wars are waged for limited aims, so that they don t rage out of control.

While the war in Afghanistan may have resulted in fewer American deaths and injuries than previous US wars, the human cost remains substantial especially after factoring in Afghan deaths and injuries.

Jagland praised Nansen while underscoring that the world is still facing challenges as great, if not greater, than those of the past, citing the Libyan and Syrian civil wars as well as the recent Lampedusa disaster.

After initial Persian success in recapturing Baghdad and most of modern Iraq, having lost it for several years, the war became a stalemate as the Persians were unable to press further into the Ottoman Empire, and the Ottomans themselves were distracted by wars in Europe and weakened by internal turmoil.

That report famously valued the damage caused by global warming at 5 20 of GDP a major disruption on a scale similar to those associated with the great wars and the economic depression of the first half of the twentieth century.

Refugees are a natural consequence of war indeed, there has seldom been a war without civilians trying to flee from its carnage. But what causes the wars?