Geographical statistics of wars and armed conflicts of the 21st century

In the first nineteen years of the 21st century, armed conflicts continued in the world, which began in the last century. Also, new hotbeds of tension have emerged, either overgrown into full-scale wars, or having had time to go out, but smoldering without visible ways to resolve them. Unfortunately, we have to talk about the recurrence of conflicts of the last century.

It seems to us interesting to clarify the geography of contemporary conflicts in order to reveal their location relative to the Russian borders, as well as the impact on the formation of migration flows, including illegal migration.

Not only conflicts that caused a great resonance throughout the world, but also those with or having a local character, about which little is known to the “world community”, will be named here. We leave outside the scope of the study internal political conflicts, for the resolution of which only law enforcement forces were involved, and which did not entail military actions, or those internal conflicts whose participants did not pursue political goals.

In the XXI century. Armed conflicts have occurred in the following regions of the planet: Europe, Transcaucasia, North Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia. Wars and conflicts in these regions are listed in chronological order. The second Chechen war is not mentioned, since its active phase ended in 2000. Anti-terrorist operations are also not called.

Europe
1. Albano-Macedonian Conflict in Macedonia (2001) ,.
2. The war in the east of Ukraine (2014 - n. Temporary).

Transcaucasia
1. The Armenian-Azerbaijani conflict in Karabakh (1992 - present).
2. The first conflict in the Kodori Valley (2001).
3. The second conflict in the Kodori Valley (2006).
4. The war in South Ossetia (2008). Sometimes the name “Russian-Georgian war” is used, which, in our opinion, is incorrect.

North Africa
1. The civil war in Algeria (1991 – 2002).
2. Civil War in Libya (2011 - n. Temporary).

Sub-Saharan Africa
1. Sierra Leonean Civil War (1991 – 2002).
2. The civil war in Burundi (1993 – 2005).
3. Second Congo War (1998 – 2002).
4. Second Civil War in Liberia (1999 – 2003).
5. The first civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2002 – 2007).
6. War in Central Africa (2004 – 2007).
7. The war in DRC (2004 – 2009).
8. War of Nigeria (2004 - n. Vr.).
9. Chad Second Civil War (2005 – 2010).
10. The war in Somalia (2006 – 2009).
11. Conflict in Kenya (2007 – 2008).
12. Djibouti-Eritrean Conflict (2008).
13. Second civil war in Côte d'Ivoire (2010 – 2011).
14. Rise of the Tuareg in Mali (2012 – 2013).
15. The war in DRC (2012 – 2013).
16. Intervention in the Gambia (2017).

Near East
1. Al-Aqsa Intifada (Second Intifada) (2000 – 2005).
2. Intervention in Iraq (2003 – 2011).
3. Civil War in Sudan (2003 - n. Temporary).
4. Yemen Civil War (2004 - n. Time).
5. The Second Lebanon War (2006).
6. The conflict in Lebanon (2007).
7. Israeli-Palestinian conflict (2008 – 2009).
8. Civil War in Syria (2011 - n. Temporary).
9. The conflict in Lebanon (2011 – 2017).
10. Sudan-South Sudan War (2011).
11. Civil War in Iraq (2011 - n. Temporary).
12. Intervention in Yemen (2014 - n. Time).
13. Iraqi-Kurdish Conflict (2017).

Middle East
1. Civil War in Afghanistan (1978 - n. Time).
2. Intervention in Afghanistan (2001 - AD).

South Asia
1. Third Islamic War (1995 – 2002) (phase of the Sri Lanka Civil War, which lasted in 1983 – 2009).
2. Civil War in Nepal (1996 – 2006).
3. Indian-Bangladesh Conflict (2001).
4. War in Waziristan (2004 - n. Time).
5. Fourth Islamic War (2006 – 2009) (phase of the Sri Lankan Civil War, which lasted in 1983 – 2009).
6. Indo-Pakistan conflict (2019).

Southeast Asia
1. Thai-Cambodian Conflict (2008).

So, in the XXI century. Wars and armed conflicts took place in most regions of the Eastern Hemisphere. Total - 46, including those inherited by the century XXI from the century XX - 11, which began in the XX century. and continuing now - 2, which began in the XXI century. and continuing in our time - 10.

Comments

[Olgovich]

mournful list .....

[Cry]

this whole list is generated by the collapse of the USSR

[Boozer]

Sudan is in Africa, not the Middle East.

[Pavel Gusterin]

Dear Boozer, according to Russian geographical science and Russian oriental studies, Sudan and Egypt are the Middle East (see BDT https://bigenc.ru/geography/text/1873301). Of course, both countries are located in Africa. You are confusing continents and politico-geographical regions.

[Sergey1987]

Not quite correct data. In DRC, Mali and Somalia, the war is actually still ongoing. Not in the list of Angola, Colombia, Mexico, Philippines, Niger. There, of course, the intensity of the conflict is low, but periodically hostilities are conducted.

[Pavel Gusterin]

Dear Sergey 1987, here we are not talking about terrorist acts and anti-terrorist operations, as I say in the text. In addition, active phases of conflicts are taken into account: if, after concluding any agreements, some bursts occur, then this is no reason to include settled conflicts in the above list as continuing. Moreover, one does not have to talk about the drug war in Mexico.

[prior]

Military conflicts in the colonies are simply necessary for modern colonialists to maintain dependence and obedience.
There are no military conflicts in the territories of developed countries. Only in 3rd world countries. Such a pattern.
Centuries pass, centuries change, but the policy of the colonialists (divide and conquer) is not.

[Aquilifer]

There are no military conflicts in the territories of developed countries.

What are you? This is not a training ground - people live!

[Krasnodar]

What about Israel? 22nd HDI - between Luxembourg and France

[Aquilifer]

Panas fight - at lackeys forelocks crack.

[Mikhail3]

As far as I remember, in terms of a thousand people, the number of violent deaths on the planet is constant. If people stop dying in Africa, something will start here. I don’t know (and I don’t think anyone knows) what is the matter, but everything works like that.

[Krasnodar]

The Palestinian-Israeli conflict - the last significant operation against Gaza since 1500, EMNIP, 200th hundredths was in 2014.