Security, rights and freedoms are under attack. Democratic space is shrinking and millions of people engulfed in conflicts fear for their lives, driving the greatest movement of refugees seeking safe haven since the Second World War. Global military spending stands at almost $1.8 trillion, or 2.3 per cent of global GDP. The human and economic cost of armed conflict in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and elsewhere is incalculable. The most dramatic and tragic consequence of the current state of global affairs is the scale of displacement of people due to armed conflict. Governments in some countries are attacking their own citizens, people are taking up arms against each other in ethnic and land-based...
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