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 Peace & conflict

Wars are waged for many reasons – race, religion, politics. But whatever the reason the results are the same – death and devastation.  Wars linked to oil, timber, gemstones and drug crops have destroyed entire communities all over the world. And those who pay the highest price are the poor and most vulnerable: women and children.

Peace & conflict facts

• Every year 500,000 people are killed by armed violence – that’s one person every minute
• There are an estimated 250,000 child soldiers fighting wars throughout the world
• In 2004 eight million people fled their homes and sought refuge in other countries, a further 25 million were displaced within their own countries
• In 2006 an estimated £561 billion was spent worldwide on arms – about 15 times the amount spent globally on aid

Peace & conflict videos

 

A letter home
Adriana Chitula: Angola
Five years after she was separated from her parents by Angola’s civil war, Adriana discovers they are still alive

Clearing a path for the future
Sokhia Eng: Cambodia
Sokhia’s confidence in the minefields has grown with her experience

Karrus' dream comes to life
Karrus Hayes: Ghana
Karrus wants a better future for young Liberian refugees

Art for life's sake
Fiel dos Santos: Mozambique
Working with the grimmest raw materials, Fiel has welded together an object of hope

Swords into ploughshares
Tennyson Setoy: Mozambique
An end to fighting means farming, family and a future for one Mozambican former soldier

Breaking the silence
Yehuda Shaul: Israel
Yehuda breaks an Israeli taboo by talking about his time as a soldier in the Occupied Palestinian Territories

A mother's mission
Robi Damelin: Israel
Robi helps preach peace, not pain, in a region scarred by conflict