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haxxiy said:

SvennoJ said:

Hmm. I grew up with the IRA bombings, Freddy Heineken hostage taking and frequent plane hijackings, Lebanon, Falklands, Iran-Iraq wars, Tsjernobyl fallout, Rwanda genocide, Gulf war, Kosovo war, then 9/11 happened and things only heated up more.

I don't remember any quiet decades...

https://isnblog.ethz.ch/uncategorized/trends-in-armed-conflict-1946-2018

The 90s and the 00s were definitely more peaceful than the preceding decades, even more so if you account for population growth.

I wouldn't really call it more peaceful, just that the conflicts at the time were either over very quickly or lower intensity in general, so they couldn't "compete" with conflicts like the Chinese civil war (first spike, late 1940's), Vietnam (second spike, mid-60's to mid-70's), the Irak-Iran war (third spike, 80's) or the Arab Winter (fourth spike, 2010's) in terms of people killed directly by those wars.

I mean, if one were to extend that graph for 10 additional years until 1936, then everything after 1945 would be looking peaceful by comparison - but was it really?