{"id":18855,"date":"2020-05-31T16:04:05","date_gmt":"2020-05-31T07:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/31\/wars-without-end-why-is-there-no-peaceful-solution-to-so-much-global-conflict"},"modified":"2020-05-31T16:04:05","modified_gmt":"2020-05-31T07:04:05","slug":"wars-without-end-why-is-there-no-peaceful-solution-to-so-much-global-conflict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=18855","title":{"rendered":"Wars without end: why is there no peaceful solution to so much global conflict?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A new study shows that 60% of the world\u2019s wars have lasted for at least a decade. From Afghanistan to Libya, Syria to Congo DRC, has endless conflict become normalised?<\/p>\n<p>Libya\u2019s civil war entered its 7th year this month <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/26\/us-says-russia-sent-warplanes-to-back-libyan-warlord\">with no end in sight<\/a>. In Afghanistan, conflict has raged on and off since the Soviet invasion in 1979. America\u2019s Afghan war is now its longest ever, part of the open-ended US \u201cglobal war on terror\u201d launched after the 2001 al-Qaida attacks.<\/p>\n<p>Yemen\u2019s conflict is in its sixth pitiless year. In Israel-Palestine, war \u2013 or rather the absence of peace \u2013 has characterised life since 1948. Somalis have endured 40 years of fighting. These are but a few examples in a world where the idea of war without end seems to have become accepted, even normalised.<\/p>\n<p>Why do present-day politicians, generals, governments and international organisations appear incapable or uninterested in making peace? In the 19th and 20th centuries, broadly speaking, wars commenced and concluded with formal ultimatums, declarations, agreed protocols, truces, armistices and treaties.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2020\/may\/31\/wars-without-end-why-is-there-no-peaceful-solution-to-so-much-global-conflict\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> A new study shows that 60% of the world\u2019s wars have lasted for at least a decade. From Afghanistan to Libya, Syria to Congo DRC, has endless conflict become normalised?Libya\u2019s civil war entered its 7th year this month with no end in sight. In Afghanis&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,401,1052,1431,1005,1430,212,419,1014,45,47,42,943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-africa","category-democratic-republic-of-the-congo","category-focus","category-israel","category-libya","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-russia","category-syria","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news","category-yemen"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18855"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18856,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18855\/revisions\/18856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}