World's military officers gather in Abu Dhabi to discuss ways to protect civilians,
reports The National (UAE).
The statistics speak for themselves: there are at least 40 active battlefields with 600 non-state armed groups operating around the world.
Throw into the mix 100 representatives from about 130 state militaries and you have a complex web of conflict tracked by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) over the past few years.
This is compounded by state-sponsored proxies, new technology, shifting alliances, political indecisiveness and a zero-sum game, resulting in familiar news stories about people left with nothing but the rubble of their homes.
“Across the globe there are terrible examples of where civilians are targeted, maimed and killed and livelihoods destroyed,” Clare Dalton, the ICRC head of mission to the UAE, said on Monday.
“We have to be able to look at why this is happening.”
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