

NB: The time of this event has changed! It is now 12-13.30 Oslo time. Despite the de-escalation of some wars, low-intensity conflicts accounted for more conflicts in 2020 than at any other point since the beginning of the dataset in 1946.Ĭlick for a link to the event on Microsoft Teams here.

However, some of the deadliest conflicts of the last decade deescalated between 20, such as those in Afghanistan and Syria. Several new or previously dormant conflicts reignited in 2020: state-based conflict was recorded in Tanzania for the first time in the dataset and the war in Azerbaijan resulted in more than three times as many fatalities as ever before.

According to UCDP Armed Conflict Data, there has been a sharp increase in the number of state-based conflicts over the past 10 years.
