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The character of intra- and inter-state conflict has changed dramatically in recent decades. Prior to the Second World War, conflict victims were predominantly found between âestablished fighting units such as government military troops and armed opposition groups.â1 Today, however, conflicts inflict their greatest harm on civilian populations, 80% of whom are women and children. In the 1990s ... read morealone, civilian populations endured nearly 90% of the casualties resulting from war representing a sharp increase from approximately 5% in the 1930s only 60 years prior.2 The practice of civilian targeting has resulted in mass population movements, or forcible displacement, on a scale previously unknown. In 1999, an estimated 7 million people were driven from their homes by war, civil insurgency or political repression, which âincreased the worldâs uprooted population to 35 million, 14 million of which were refugees.â3 This has taken a huge physical and psychological toll on war-affected individuals and their societies.read less
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