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Partners: Discernment and Humanitarian Efforts in Settings of Violence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2021

Nicole Gastineau Campos  and
Paul Farmer
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One hundred years ago, most wars occurred between nations; today, large-scale violent conflict consists almost exclusively of civil wars in which civilians constitute 30 percent of casualties.’ According to a recent World Bank study of conflict, the poorest one-sixth of the worlds population suffers four-fifths of the consequences of civil wars. While poverty is the greatest risk factor determining a nation’s likelihood of entering into conflict, it is also one of instability’s most predictable consequencet—thus, war is a vicious cycle, and poor nations may remain at risk for intense violence for years or even decades.

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Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics , Volume 31 , Issue 4 , Winter 2003 , pp. 506 - 515
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Copyright © American Society of Law, Medicine and Ethics 2003

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