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"With major conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, Europe and Southeast Asia, 1
in 8 people worldwide were exposed to conflict in 2024 – proving another
fraught year in terms of human suffering on a mass scale. In fact, 111
countries around the world experienced some form of mass atrocity during the
year.
That’s what colleagues and I at the University of Denver’s Pardee Institute
confirmed when analyzing our updated global dataset on recent and ongoing mass
atrocities.
Covering nearly 200 countries, the goal of the project is to go beyond any
single tragedy or conflict and objectively try to determine the level of
humanitarian suffering in places around the world. Each country is then
assigned a 0-100 score on our Atrocities Scope and Scale Heuristic – providing
a single metric for the breadth and severity of atrocities committed within a
certain year.
In the project, we define mass atrocity as an act of violence against 25 or
more defenseless members of a social, cultural, ethnic, religious or political
group — or threats to the group’s survival.
Although we saw fewer atrocities globally in 2024 than in 2023, there were
still more than in any other year since 2018. And while lethal atrocities were
fewer in number in 2024 relative to the previous year, several types of “less
lethal” atrocities – actions involving gross, intentional violations of human
rights on a mass scale short of murder – were more numerous."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
