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Life – a user's manual Part II - Boksidan

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- For economic stability and aid through the International Monetary Fund (IMF = International Monetary<br />

Found) and the World Bank. They were created in the agreement in Bretton Woods (USA) during World<br />

War <strong>II</strong>, more about the agreement later.<br />

All these efforts to bring countries closer together appear to have been prosperus, because in the current<br />

situation, it is only a few countries that to any great extent, are one of the belligerents in a war (table 4). In<br />

the past, however, a big part of the few countries that existed were involved in war at least some time in a<br />

generation scale (table 5).<br />

Table 4. The largest current military conflicts according to UN website www.globalis.se.<br />

<strong>Part</strong> Cuntry What Current status<br />

Africa Algeria<br />

concern in areas of the<br />

Civil War<br />

country<br />

Africa Angola Civil War Peace since 2002<br />

Africa Burundi Civil War Pretty easy now<br />

Africa Sudan Civil War Ongoing<br />

Africa Central African Republic Civil War Unsecure<br />

Africa Republic of Congo Civil War Ongoing<br />

Africa Ivory Coast Civil War Unrest<br />

Africa Ethiopia/Eritrea Border Conflict<br />

Unresolved, but pretty easy<br />

now<br />

Africa Liberia Civil War Unsecure<br />

Africa Nigeria Unsecure Unsecure<br />

Africa Uganda Civil War Unsecure<br />

Africa Somalia Civil War Ongoing<br />

Africa Tcad Civil War Ongoing<br />

Africa Morocco/Western Sahara Occupation Ongoing<br />

America Colombia Civil War Ongoing<br />

America Haiti Unsecure Ongoing<br />

Asia Afghanistan Civil War Ongoing<br />

Asia Philippines Civil War Ongoing<br />

Asia Syria/Israel Border conflict Unresolved, but quiet now<br />

Asia Iraq Civil War Ongoing<br />

Asia Pakistan/India Border Conflict<br />

Unresolved, but pretty easy<br />

now<br />

Asia Turkey/Iraq/Iran Unsecure Ongoing<br />

Asia Israel/Lebanon discord Pretty easy now<br />

Asia Nepal Civil War Ongoing<br />

Asia Palestine/Israel Clashes Ongoing<br />

Asia Sri Lanka Civil War Ended<br />

Europé Cyprus Civil War Downtime long<br />

Europé Georgia Civil War Ongoing<br />

Europé Kosovo Unsecure Ongoing<br />

Europé Russia (Chechnya) Civil War Ongoing<br />

This generally distributed<br />

information brochure from 1961<br />

(If the war comes), shows that the<br />

war was very much closer only 50<br />

years ago. Then, and long after<br />

that, we annually got updated<br />

information regarding what to do<br />

when the war comes, through<br />

assigned pages in the phone book.<br />

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