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It had been growing at five percent per annum for the last one and a half decades, but this year's forecast was three percent.

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And in recent decades, a lot of the funding for shop class has gone away entirely.

Yet, not only is there at least some good news to be told about fewer such conflicts now than two decades ago, but what is perhaps more important is that we also have come to a much better understanding of what can be done to further reduce the number of ethnic conflicts and civil wars and the suffering that they inflict.

Civil wars have made news headlines for many decades now, and ethnic conflicts in particular have been a near constant presence as a major international security threat.

For nearly two decades now, the news has been bad and the images have been haunting.

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