CARPET-bombing. Collective responsibility. Genocide. These are the words of modern warfare.
More civilians die in modern warfare than soldiers. While we have become better at most things, we have not become better at war.
Our ability to kill and mutilate has reached levels never seen before. Whether it’s Gaza, Israel, Darfur, Rwanda, Bosnia, Syria, Congo, Ukraine, Yemen, Afghanistan or Nigeria, civilian deaths in war have remained unacceptably high.
Over the past 23 years, more than 5.5 million deaths have occurred because of war, the vast majority of those being civilians killed in acts of war. The political decision-makers of war never die in war. It is the sons and daughters of ordinary people who die in war.
Religion, nationality, race, land and borders are all reasons why world leaders send…