{"id":67814,"date":"2024-11-21T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/nov\/21\/world-conflict-zones-increased-by-two-thirds-past-three-years-report-ukraine-myanmar-middle-east-africa"},"modified":"2024-11-21T16:01:39","modified_gmt":"2024-11-21T07:01:39","slug":"worlds-conflict-zones-increased-by-two-thirds-in-past-three-years-report-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=67814","title":{"rendered":"World\u2019s conflict zones increased by two-thirds in past three years, report reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Wars have spread and intensified, with far-reaching impacts on global economic growth and food security, according to latest Conflict Intensity Index<\/p>\n<p>The proportion of the world engulfed by conflict has grown 65% \u2013 equivalent to nearly double the size of India \u2013 over the past three years, according to a new report.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine, Myanmar, the Middle East and a \u201cconflict corridor\u201d around Africa\u2019s Sahel region have seen wars and unrest spread and intensify since 2021, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/uploads.guim.co.uk\/2024\/11\/20\/Global_conflict_zones_grow_by_two_thirds_since_2021,_topping_6_million_km2_-_Report.pdf\">latest Conflict Intensity Index (CII)<\/a>, published by risk analysts Verisk Maplecroft.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2024\/nov\/21\/world-conflict-zones-increased-by-two-thirds-past-three-years-report-ukraine-myanmar-middle-east-africa\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wars have spread and intensified, with far-reaching impacts on global economic growth and food security, according to latest Conflict Intensity IndexThe proportion of the world engulfed by conflict has grown 65% \u2013 equivalent to nearly double the size o&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":942,"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":[401,87,221,59,212,82,61,930,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-africa","category-conflict-and-arms","category-europe","category-global-development","category-middle-east-and-north-africa","category-myanmar","category-south-and-central-asia","category-ukraine","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67814","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\/942"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67815,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67814\/revisions\/67815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}