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War Dead (Death Data of Population Concerned) Percentages

  as Indicators of Conflict Intensity and Conflict Resolution Potential

   (Beyond Current Statistical Indicators such as Life Expectancy or Infant Mortality Rates)

·                    75-100 million in the early Euro–“Conquest” of the Americas

·                    60 million in the Euro–African–Americas Slavery Time

·                    50 million in 1940s European Wars

·                    8 million in the U.S.–South-East Asia Drug Wars

·                    4 million in Euro-African Apartheid

·                    3 million in Oil Gulf & Horn of Africa Wars (not counting age 0–5)

·                    Floods & Earthquakes up to 4 million (China, Middle-East, and North–Baltic Seas, historically, so far)

    Under 1% War Dead           Cuba (1952…), Chile & Argentina (1973…), Israel–Palestine (1948…);

     2% War Dead                     Algeria (1945…), Iran (1946…), Iraq (1961…), Colombia (1948…), Guatemala (1954…),

                                                     Afghanistan (1978…), El Salvador (1969…), & Yemen (1948…);

     4% War Dead                     Uganda (1964…) & Nicaragua (1945…); and­

     Over 5% War Dead            Laos (1945-76), Lebanon (1958…), Vietnam (1946-76), Kampuchea (1965-76),

                                                      & North Korea (1950…)

For dBases #s and %s, see http://comnet.org/wilpf/wars.html; http://databases.sipri.se/; http://www.brad.ac.uk/acad/peace/resgroups/resgroup.htm; http://www.peacenews.info/events/index.php;

http://rrojasdatabank.info/agfrank/; http://www.yorku.ca/yciss/publications/OP28-Acharya.pdf;

and http://pweb.sophia.ac.jp/~k-inoguc/4Conflict.PDF (Japanese Character Overlay)

(See geographic genre of, e.g., Istvan Kende, Támas Szentes, Gérard Chaliand, and W.E.B. duBois, among others, as well as atlases in revision on trends and patterns in print.)