Human Security Report Project

The Project is presently based at Simon Fraser University's School for International Studies at Harbour Centre in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada,[1] having formerly been based at the University of British Columbia's Liu Institute for Global Issues in the Human Security Centre.The Project is known primarily for the Human Security Report 2005, which provided evidence that, according to the Project's data and definitions, there had been a large decline in the number of wars, genocides, and international crises since the end of the Cold War.

[2][3][4] The reduction in armed conflict in recent history has been referred to as the Long Peace,[5][6] and there is general agreement among experts that the frequency of war has declined since at least the 1950s,[6][7] despite a widespread misperception that the world has become more dangerous.

If fatalities from political violence against civilians perpetrated by non-state groups in Iraq are counted as deaths from terrorism, the decline dated mid-2007.

One problem with the START project's dataset is that it counts politically motivated killings of civilians in civil war by non-state actors as terrorism in some contexts, but not in others.

Further, the 2007 Brief suggested positive change in Sub-Saharan Africa's security landscape; the number of conflicts being waged in the region more than halved between 1999 and 2006.

Part II examines "The Shrinking Costs of War", paying particular attention to "indirect deaths" from war-exacerbated disease and malnutrition.