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  • Revamped Website Consolidates Human Security Report Project Publications, Research, and Data

    03 Jun 2010

    The Human Security Report Project (HSRP) launched its new website, which replaces four separate sites, is easy-to-navigate, and provides access to all HSRP publications, research and data, as well as the eNewletter archive. The new site delivers improved usability, additional features, and significantly more content than the previous sites.

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  • The Debate Generated by the "Shrinking Costs of War"

    14 Apr 2010

    The release of the "Shrinking Costs of War" at the UN, and the subsequent coverage of its findings in the media and blogosphere, has generated a spirited debate in the research, humanitarian, and policy communities.

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  • Report Reveals that Human Costs of War Have Shrunk Dramatically

    20 Jan 2010

    Canada's Human Security Report Project (HSRP) at Simon Fraser University today released The Shrinking Costs of War, Part II of the Human Security Report 2009 (forthcoming). The study reveals that nationwide death rates actually fall during the course of most of today's armed conflicts. The study also provides the most comprehensive analysis to date of the claim that 5.4 million people have died because of the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It demonstrates that the true death toll is far smaller.

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  • Leading British Medical Journal’s Review Process Assailed

    15 Dec 2009

    An ongoing controversy over global war death estimates moved to a new level this month with the release of a study by researchers at the Human Security Report Project, the University of London, and Uppsala University’s Conflict Data Program. "Estimating War Deaths: An Arena of Contestation", which is published in the December issue of the The Journal of Conflict Resolution (JCR), presents a detailed critique of claims that "war has killed three times more people than previously estimated".

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  • miniAtlas on Trends in Global Security Released

    09 Oct 2008

    The miniAtlas of Human Security, produced by the Human Security Report Project at Simon Fraser University, Canada, provides an at-a-glance illustrated guide to global and regional trends in human insecurity––focusing on wars, genocides, battle deaths, refugee flows and human rights abuses. The miniAtlas updates the findings of previous publications by the Human Security Report Project.

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  • Comprehensive Study Finds Incidence of Terrorism Declining Around the World

    21 May 2008

    Challenging the expert consensus that the threat of global terrorism is increasing, the Human Security Brief 2007 reveals a sharp net decline in the incidence of terrorist violence around the world.

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  • Report on Political Violence Finds Global Wars Still Declining-with Dramatic Decrease in Africa

    21 Dec 2006

    Notwithstanding the escalating violence in Iraq and the widening war in Darfur, the Human Security Brief 2006, reveals that, from the beginning of 2002 to the end of 2005, the number of wars being fought around the world dropped significantly. By far the greatest decline was in sub–Saharan Africa.

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  • Study Shows Major Declines in Armed Conflicts, Genocides, Human Rights Abuse, Military Coups and International Crises

    17 Oct 2005

    The Human Security Report is the most comprehensive annual survey of trends in warfare, genocide, and human rights abuses. The Report shows how, after nearly five decades of inexorable increase, the number of genocides and violent conflicts dropped rapidly in the wake of the Cold War. It also reveals that wars are not only far less frequent today, but are also far less deadly.

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