Table of Contents
Editor’s Introduction
Notes on Methodology
Global Trends
Brian McQuinn
Armed-Group Proliferation: Origins and Consequences
Eleanor Beevor and Dhia Muhsin
Non-state Armed Groups and UAVs: Uptake and Effectiveness
Francesco Milan
ISIS Foreign Fighters after the Fall of the Caliphate
Tuesday Reitano
Human Trafficking in Conflict
Conflict Reports
Americas
• Regional Introduction
• Brazil (Rio de Janeiro & Ceará)
• Colombia (BACRIMs)
• El Salvador
• Honduras
• Mexico (Cartels)
Asia-Pacific
• Regional Introduction
• Myanmar (EAOs)
• Philippines (ASG & Moro)
• Philippines (NPA)
• Southern Thailand
Europe and Eurasia
• Regional Introduction
• Armenia–Azerbaijan (Nagorno-Karabakh)
• Ukraine
Middle East and North Africa
• Regional Introduction
• Egypt (Sinai)
• Iraq
• Israel-Palestine
• Libya
• Syria
• Turkey (PKK)
• Yemen
South Asia
• Regional Introduction
• Afghanistan
• India (CPI–Maoist)
• India (Northeast)
• India–Pakistan (Kashmir)
• Pakistan
Sub-Saharan Africa
• Regional Introduction
• Cameroon
• Central African Republic
• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Ethiopia (Communal Violence)
• Lake Chad Basin (Boko Haram)
• The Sahel (Mali & Burkina Faso)
• Nigeria (Farmer–Pastoralist)
• Somalia
• South Sudan
• Sudan (Darfur, Blue Nile & South Kordofan)
Index
& The 2020 Chart of Armed Conflict