What are the main causes of war in the modern world?
• According to Walter Fritz, beyond survival and emotion there are other subjective reasons for war including: • The belief that the war will be beneficial to society in the long run • Errors of appreciation of the political, economic and social situation of a country’s own society and of the adversary • Accidents in which a critical situation gets out of hand • A fight over resources • The Centre for War and Peace Research in Uppsala, Sweden, issued a report that stated that most armed conflict today occurs within a country’s own borders, whereas in years past most wars were fought between different countries • Also according to the report poverty was the major cause of about 80% of today’s wars. Poorer countries were found to be 3 times at greater risk of war than richer countries. Indeed throughout the decade of the 1990s most wars were fought by countries with severe economic problems (e.g. Somalia and Rwanda) • Ethnicity was also a factor but it is only when ethnicity is tied to p
