Apologies Arne with regard to your post of 15 Nov 05 - 04:08 PM

"Teribus: ...since 1998 the world has become a safer place (even taking into account Iraq and Darfur) we are 40% less likely to experience a war and 60% less likely to encounter genocide."

In which you commented - "Well, given the fact that we have a war now sucking all our resources ... and given the fact that the genocide in Darfun continues, I'd hardly take solace in that alleged "fact" (for which you provide no reference)."

The findings of the study were reported by Cnn.com - Study:Fewer wars, less deadly - Oct 18th 2005. The source was United Nations (AP), you will find the article at: http://edition.cnn.com/2005/WORLD/europe/10/17/war.un.ap/index.hmtl

This was the first Human Security Report funded by Canada, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Britain.