War and armed conflict are a form of organised violence that we must endeavour to better understand and conceptualise. Not all conflicts are the same: there are colonial conflicts (England in India, East Africa and the Middle East, etc.; France in Algeria, Kanaky and West Africa, etc.); occupation conflicts (Israel in Palestine, etc.); religious fundamentalist conflicts (between different creeds or different currents within the same creed), and other
kinds of conflicts. Many conflicts are justified to the rest of the world as ethnic conflicts between tribes or groups within a country or region, while the true economic reasons behind them are concealed. In reality, many conflicts are rooted in capitalism and have been provoked to control natural resources (oil in Iraq, coltan in the African Great Lakes region, uranium in Niger, gold in Mali) and boost the arms industry, private militias and national security companies.

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