How has the nature of conflict changed in today's world briefly discuss ignou?
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The nature of conflict has changed remarkably in the later part of twentieth century. The State against state model is becoming the exception. Of the 56 major armed conflicts registered in between 1995 and 2005, only three were of an interstate nature. All others were internal conflicts, even though in 14 of them foreign troops were engaged on one or the other side. Moreover, while the first half of the century was dominated by warfare between rich states. Most contemporary conflicts took place overwhelmingly in the world's poorer countries, with Africa and Asia accounting for the greatest number of internal conflicts in the past decade.
Internal conflicts, be they of an ethnic or revolutionary nature, or associated with the failure of the state or disruptive changes in the regime, emerge where politically organized groups, national, ethnic or other minorities, or warlords and other violent elements in society, rebel against governments, often also fighting against themselves.
The international mechanisms that has been developed to control, prevent and resolve conflicts. these are created to deal with the conventional state-state model of conflicts.
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