The violence has reached a critical point all around the world, even though it affects Africa in an excessive way, where conflicts, human rights violations, physical destructions, and generalized displacements leave the international community anaesthetized. The incredible savagery of some of the conflicts, and the unacceptable sufferings inflicted, compel us to find the ways to help our fellows. In this way, we must activate and urgently use the new International Criminal Court, in order to make appear criminals that defy the laws before the justice. But within one century the face of war has changed.
Wars take place less frequently between states, but increasingly within states.
The participants their organization and their way of doing things - and their goals are of a new type. This new type of conflict is often of local or regional nature, played out along ethnic lines, and involving terrorism. These conflicts can destabilize entire countries. Their consequences are felt across borders. They leave a lasting physical and mental impact on the people, on the minds.