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War and conflict · report
War Makes States
Conflict Alert 2019
Edited by Liezl PG. Bugtay, Nikki Philline C. de la Rosa and Judy T. Gulane
- Publisher
- International Alert
- Year
- 2019
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 100
- Availability
- Free to read
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About the book
The 2019 Conflict Alert report on the fall in violent incidents in Muslim Mindanao after the Marawi war, even as extremist violence continued. Its title borrows Charles Tilly's line that war makes states, as the BARMM was being set up.
Conflict Alert is International Alert's system for tracking violent conflict in the Bangsamoro, built with partner universities, the police and local validation groups. This 2019 report covers its 8th year of data, from 2011 to 2018, and was edited by Liezl Bugtay, Nikki Philline de la Rosa and Judy Gulane. It was funded by the World Bank and the Australian government.
It counts 2,910 violent incidents in 2018, a 30% drop from 4,140 in 2017. Deaths also fell. The report gives martial law, with more police and military checkpoints, as the most likely reason. Chapters cover incidents by province, the human cost, causes of conflict, gender-based violence, land conflict in the Iranun corridor, timing and weapons.
It warns that the region is "not out of the woods yet". Extremist violence had become the leading cause of conflict deaths since 2016, and violence tied to the transition was growing. The title quotes the sociologist Charles Tilly, and one section looks at how war has shaped the building of the state in Muslim Mindanao.
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