Well done. What about ETA and the Basque separatist movement in Spain? Is there something fundamentally different about it, or was its omission a simple oversight?

Thank you. We need to bring these ongoing wars more publicity. It is amazing how many people live there lives in peace and have no idea what is really going on elsewhere. compost tumbler Regards. rain barrel

I didn't see the conflicts in Burundi, Cabinda (Angola), Cote d'Ivoire, Western Sahara, or Algeria mentioned. Then in Asia, there's Kurds in Turkey, still some violence in the Russian Caucasus, and should the 'frozen conflicts' in Nagorno-Karabakh & Transnistria be mentioned?

Peace starts in the home - peaceful living, good education, respect for others all constitutes toward world peace - there will always be the extremes that want to change the world - perhaps due to ignorance or perhaps due to over-intelligence? misuse of intelligence.
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Just 33? I had thought that it was far more than that.

Would that they rise from their cowardice and form a government that serves them instead of accelerating evolution

maybe in another millennium they will help themselves collectively instead of helping themselves selfishly.

The situation in Iran is hardly what I would call an armed conflict or insurgency. While there is certainly ubiquitous political oppression and popular resistance to it, I would call it a clearly biased stretch to put in the same category as most of the rest of the examples provided. And if indeed you accept that Iran merits being this list than you must put the US on it as well. Where I live in this country it is a war -zone. There are killings here everyday and everyday "innocent civilians" die. It is convenient to accept the notion that America is beacon of peace but that is a facade. I served in the Marines and spent two tours in Iraq and I felt safer there than in many parts of town where I live now. The govt. (police) are powerless here and are just as afraid as many in the neighborhood. I ask FP to think more critically and introspectively when composing these lists.

First thing, we cannot define war loosely, it is a charged term - if a bunch of people rage against the government and protest, and in the course few cars are flared, or even bullets fired that is not war. Remember back in 2004, how about 1700 Americans were arrested during the Republican convention. Or the Virginia Tech shooting.

I can speak for my native country Nepal, a few protests here and there in the process of furthering political interest in its truest sense, does not entail War. Yes, there was a civil war for almost a decade, but now all the parties are quiet and only engage in highly charged political race, and I should add, sometimes the use of force. But again weren't students in California being beaten by cops. It's something similar.

The pictures are nice and fascinating, but I think this story portrays very biased view of war. A bunch of people protest against the elected president in Iran, it is termed war. And a country is right now deploying thousands of troops to two countries, 5 thousand soldiers dead , thousands civilians dead, yet the nation is not a war zone but a kingdom far far far far away with happy ending.

Your digital gears are speckless and you have tremendous resources to get to the corner-est place of the world to take picture by your high end camera, only matched by your skills obtained at prestigious schools, but alas you seem not to understand war.

Great piece overall but I'd like just point out a couple of inaccuracies on the section on the conflict in Papua. The insurgency in Papua is actually split between several pretty much autonomous factions of the OPM, each headed by its own commander. Kelly Kwalik (not Kwalia) was responsible for just one of these factions, operating in the Mimika region surrounding Freeport's Grasberg gold and copper mine. He's been blamed for a number of attacks that have included the killing of foreigners employed by Freeport, but the jury's still out on whether the attacks were actually done by an element of the security forces.

Some sections of the OPM are better armed than just "bows and arrows". The Freeport attacks, if carried out by Kwalik's group, were done with guns. Another faction over the mountains in Puncak Jaya district led by Goliath Tabuni is in control of at least a few rifles captured from police.

Also, fighting these days is almost exclusively between rebels and the police Mobile Brigade, with the mililtary taking a back seat (but still allegedly competing for a share of illegal businesses).

I think this survey is not so fair. Because you did not mention about the biggest non state people in the world. Kurds have been suffering many genoside attack under turkey, iraq and iran . Do you think that 25 million kurds live in Turkey and they do not have any right included using their language. Their childeren prisioned and tortured. In the other side saddam killed 5 thousonds kurds with using chemicals weapons (first chem weapon used against human being). Unfortunately you ignored this big issue.

Information provided in this article considering Uzbekistan is so inaccurate, that it made me laugh.
First, there were no "Muslim protesters" on May 2005 demonstrations. Islam wasn't the agenda; social and economic conditions, sneaking "tulip/orange" revolutionary moods were. Read Human Right Watch's report “Bullets Were Falling Like Rain”: http://www.hrw.org/reports/2005/uzbekistan0605/

Second, Karimov's government is not trying to "integrate" population into anything. The official policy is to keep population under poverty and complete isolation from the outside/developed world to make sure that power over the country remains within the ruling clan.

Third, Karimov's government is the direct source (or at least the cause) of all the terrorism in the country. Read here: http://www.uzbekpolicy.org/2009/06/government-accused-of-plotting-attacks.html

FP, do your homework better :)

Am I the only one that has taken note of how many of the 33 listed are being fought and perpetuated by either Islamic extremists or Communists of various stripes?

On the page on Northern Ireland:

"The conflict escalated in 1972 when Westminster declared direct rule over Ulster"

Compeltely false. The conflict escalated in 1971 and 1972 because civil authority in Northern Ireland was collapsing. Direct rule de-escalated the conflict, decreasing violence and helping avoid a catastrophe.

Cyprus!!!!

Still has the only divided city in the world, Nicosia ???????

Come on guys you will have to research a little harder than this!

"Today, much of the country falls increasingly under the control of militant groups while the TFG and its president, Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed, a former ICU leader"FP.
FP please do not short change Africa, we have went through enough. Do the right thing which is reporting and analyzing the truth. I feel that you always short change on Facts and analyzing about Africa. It is a well know fact that the TFG is not in control out side of the Airport and the Palace with the so called AU and Ethiopian forces in direct violation of the UN charter. Please stop miss leading for your interest, tell the truth. Thank you.

I think it's cruel what is being violated everywhere in the world in human rights, and this one is so powerless as a spectator
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