The True Cost of Conflict: Seven Recent Wars and Their Effects on Society

Seven recent conflicts - the Gulf War, Indonesia’s invasion of East Timor, the civil wars in Mozambique and the Sudan, the guerrilla war in Peru, the struggle for independence in Kashmir, and the war in the former Yugoslavia - are examined in this book, in terms of their cost to the human race. Resulting from a collaboration between six international humanitarian organizations, the book focuses not only on the number of deaths and injuries caused by war, but also on consequences such as the extreme economic damage incurred both by the participants and by other communities, the social and developmental costs, and the environmental damage. It ends with a discussion of the effects of current approaches to conflict management and prevention.