Bruno Giussani is blogging TED2007 — and doing a really great job — thanks Bruno. In this post, Bruno links a resource that I’ve been struggling unsuccessfully to remember, the Human Security Report 2005:
…largely ignored by the press but which contains figures such as: the number of armed conflicts has declined by more than 40 percent since 1992; that of military coups and attempted coups has declined by some 60 percent since 1963…
So the The Progress Paradox is not the only source of unreported good news. The Overview [PDF] section of the report is succinct:
Over the past dozen years, the global security climate has changed in dramatic, positive, but largely unheralded ways. Civil wars, genocides and international crises have all declined sharply. International wars, now only a small minority of all conflicts, have been in steady decline for a much longer period, as have military coups and the average number of people killed per conflict per year.
The full report can be accessed here.
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