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Monday, October 17, 2005

The U.N.'s working... Whaddaya know...!

this ain't gonna make bolton happy...
Confounding conventional wisdom, a major new report reveals that all forms of political violence, except international terrorism, have declined worldwide since the early 1990s. . . . [T]errorism is currently the gravest threat to international security . . . [T]he UN played a critically important role in spearheading a huge upsurge of international conflict prevention, peacekeeping and peace building activities.

(. . . the Human Security Report is the most comprehensive annual survey of trends in warfare, genocide, and human rights abuses [and is] produced by the Human Security Centre at the University of British Columbia . . .)

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