Half the world is at war: 32 active conflicts and 22 crisis areas

Today in the world there are 32 active wars and 22 crisis areas, with half of the population involved in a conflict or threatened by armed tensions: this is what emerges from the 14th edition of the Atlas of Wars and Conflicts in the World, conceived and curated by the journalists of the 46th Parallel Association, and presented today in Tuscany Region in Florence, with extensive reports, analyses of the causes of wars, conflict sheets that frame the history and current events of ongoing wars, including the crisis in Venezuela and the war that, with Iran, affects the entire Middle Eastern chessboard.

"We have the bad habit of only talking about certain wars - said Raffaele Crocco, the responsible director of the Atlas - we forget the 150,000 deaths in Myanmar in four years, the 90,000 deaths in Sudan in two years, a whole series of really heavy situations that exist and that give us the exact sign of how war today is primarily a matter of civilians involved, much more than of governments or geopolitical choices."

According to the spokesperson for Amnesty International, Riccardo Noury, "compared to a terrible decade like the 1990s, what is different is that there is not really an account of the language of international law, it is considered that international law is valid either up to a certain point or only among 'good' states, and then there are rogue states, with the list varying depending on the circumstances, against which anything can be done. It is a very dangerous situation, especially from the point of view of combating impunity, which is one of the goals of Amnesty International."