Somalia

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.

Somalia

Sudan

Darfur

Nepal

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.

Guatemala’s 1996 peace accords concluded a bloody thirty-six-year civil war. The negotiated cease-fire reached between government forces and leftist insurgent groups ended a conflict in which over two hundred thousand civilians—primarily indigenous Mayans—were killed or forcibly disappeared, and hundreds of thousands of people were displaced. In the early 1980s, at the height of the conflict, over six thousand armed combatants fought a guerrilla war, supported by between two hundred and fifty thousand and five hundred thousand loyalists to the four principal guerrilla groups involved.

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.