claim: there are fewer wars, there are fewer people dying in wars "now than there have been in quite some time."
author: stu burguiere
evidence_1: mar 20, 2015 ... at the time this “long peace” could have been dismissed as a ... as long as  violence has not vanished altogether, there will always be ... only by  systematically tallying wars and war deaths and plotting them over time can one  reach a ... civil wars are far less destructive than wars between great powers,  and ...
evidence_2: jul 23, 2014 ... the separatists have held the area where the plane went down, and u.s.  secretary of ... since the split in february, pro-russian separatists in eastern  ukraine have been fighting with forces representing the ... there are less wars,  there are less people dying in wars than there have been in quite some time.
evidence_3: dec 15, 2017 ... ... humans have become a more peaceful species over time, thanks to advances  ... he cited data suggesting that fewer people die in wars today, relative ...  whether there was a mathematical explanation for why fewer people .... “some  might take that to mean our species has always been violent,” he says.
evidence_4: it had been cattle country—a now bankrupt ranch once handled 30,000 ... the  huge army base was training men for combat in world war i, and within two  weeks ... but it's clear the pandemic killed more people in a year than aids has  killed in ..... then there are the less glamorous measures, known as  nonpharmaceutical ...
evidence_5: then everyone except the few people in uniform getting on with their workaday  concerns. ... now the american military is exotic territory to most of the american  public. as a ... as a country, america has been at war nonstop for the past 13  years. ... and travails of the troops (until he was killed near the war's end by  japanese ...