The Armed Conflict Survey provides in-depth analysis of the political, military and humanitarian dimensions of all major armed conflicts, as well as data on fatalities, refugees and internally displaced persons. Compiled by the IISS, publisher of The Military Balance, it is the standard reference work on contemporary conflict.

    The book assesses key developments in 36 conflicts, including those in Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, South Sudan, Israel–Palestine, Southern Thailand, Colombia and Ukraine.



    The Armed Conflict Survey also features chapters on UN peacekeeping; sexual violence; the Islamic State’s shifting narrative;  governance by armed groups and rebel-to-party transitions.

    Contents

    Editor’s Introduction

    Chapter One - Thematic Essays

    Whither UN Peacekeeping?

    Conflict-related Sexual Violence

    The Islamic State’s Shifting Narrative

    The Changing Foundations of Governance by Armed Groups

    Rebel-to-party Transitions

    Chapter Two - Maps, Graphics and Data

    Territory lost by ISIS and operations against the group in

    Ten years of Mexico’s ‘war on drugs’

    Distribution of highest reported level of rape during civil war

    Refugee movements to selected non-Western countries

    Global conflict fatalities

    Myanmar’s newest insurgency

    Chapter Three - Middle East

    Egypt

    Iraq

    Israel–Palestine

    Lebanon–Hizbullah–Syria

    Libya

    Mali (The Sahel)

    Syria

    Turkey (PKK)

    Yemen

    Chapter Four - Sub-Saharan Africa

    Central African Republic

    Democratic Republic of the Congo

    Ethiopia

    Nigeria (Boko Haram)

    Nigeria (Delta Region)

    Somalia

    South Sudan

    Sudan (Blue Nile, Darfur and South Kordofan)

    Chapter Five - South Asia

    Afghanistan

    India (Assam)

    India (CPI–Maoist)

    India (Manipur)

    India (Nagaland)

    India–Pakistan (Kashmir)

    Pakistan

    Chapter Six - Asia-Pacific

    China (Xinjiang)

    Myanmar

    Philippines (ASG)

    Philippines (MILF)

    Philippines (NPA)

    Southern Thailand

    Chapter Seven - Europe and Eurasia

    Armenia–Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh)

    Russia (North Caucasus)

    Ukraine

    Chapter Eight - Latin America

    Central America (Northern Triangle)

    Colombia

    Mexico

    Chapter Nine - Explanatory Notes

    Index

    Biography

    The International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS),