For forty years, armed conflict simmered between the government of the Philippines and various Moro rebel factions that sought to establish an independent Muslim-majority Mindanao Island, resulting in an estimated 100,000 deaths and 3.5 million people displaced.

Ivory Coast

Papua New Guinea

Mali

Central African Republic

Darfur

Following Kenya’s disputed 2007 elections, widespread violence broke out, ultimately killing more than one thousand people and leaving at least three hundred thousand people displaced over the course of a few weeks.

Since 1996, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has grappled with two waves of deadly civil conflict that have drawn in neighboring countries and claimed up to six million lives, either as a direct result of combat or due to conflict-related disease and malnutrition.

In 2011, protests against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s regime quickly escalated into a full-scale armed conflict between anti-government rebel groups and the Syrian government. Outside parties have significantly intervened, particularly as the self-proclaimed Islamic State expanded from Iraq into Syria.

Lomé Peace Agreement