Human Security Report 2009/2010, , 2 December 2010

EXCERPT: "The most recent data indicate that over 25 percent (nine out of 34) conflicts that started or restarted in the period from 2004 to 2008 were associated with Islamist political violence. The most deadly of these conflicts - in Pakistan and Somalia - were clearly also associated with international and local efforts to crush Islamist groups. But, since the beginning of 2004, there have also been new or reignited Islamist struggles on a much smaller scale in southern Russia, India, Israel (Lebanon), Uzbekistan, and Nigeria. The major conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan restarted before 2004 but were active during the entire period under investigation and therefore impact the count of the total number of active conflicts. [...] Levels of Islamist political violence have remained very high in Afghanistan and Iraq and since 2003 have increased in Pakistan and Somalia.[...] It is important to point out here that the existence of new or re-ignited conflicts associated with Islamist political violence is not a reflection of increasing popular support for violent Islamist extremism in the Muslim world as a whole. Indeed, support for al Qaeda/Osama bin Laden has declined markedly in almost all Muslim countries over the past five years. The growing popular rejection of the Islamists? indiscriminate violence?most of which is directed against fellow Muslims?is a reaction to their extremist ideology and their harshly repressive policies."

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Press conference: Andrew Mack and Safia Morsly-Fikia on the Human Security Report 2009-2010, [video] United Nations, 2 December 2010