Changing or trifiling nature of conflict?

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Hi! everyone.Could you tell me what "changing nature of conflict" means?Does it mean the causes of conflict are changing ?And also does"trifling nature of conflict (between the two groups)" means that the cause of the conflict is a quite a mere one?Thanks!

Philip · Accepted Answer

Context would help here, but I think that the 'changing nature of conflict' might refer to the idea that people in conflict are now using more violent actions to solve the problem (shooting, physical abuse, etc.). Trifling does carry the idea of insignificance.

Silak12 · Answer

Philip Trifling does carry the idea of insignificance.

Thanks for answering sir. So, am I right here?

silak12also does"trifling nature of conflict (between the two groups)" means that the cause of the conflict is a quite a mere one?

Philip · Answer

You are correct.

Silak12 · Answer

Here is the context for the first one:
The new answer is that aid dollars should be spent directly on solving these ‘political’ problems, that in fact there are no problems in the developing world today with purely economic or political character, that this is a chicken-or-egg debate in which neither factor actually comes first.
This has much to do with the changing nature of conflict.Once upon a time, wars had defined causes (ethnic tension, or scarce resources, say), defined actors (rebel movements or governments with clear leaders), and defined structures (civil or international, with a defined moment of outbreak and a formal treaty at war’s end).
For most of the 20^th century, the international community’s response was equally compartmentalized: there was ‘development’ spending to improve economies to prevent conflict; ‘diplomacy’ to build a peace agreement between warring parties; ‘peacekeeping’ to ensure that peace stuck; more ‘diplomacy’ to strengthen governance after a conflict; and ‘humanitarian relief’ to rebuild the economy and society.
Conflicts today don’t lend themselves well to this approach. Cycles of violence repeat over generations, and shift from criminal violence to political crime to outright warfare and back again. Local, national and international criminal networks help finance an interconnected network of civil and international wars. If there is no beginning and end to conflict, it no longer makes sense to differentiate between development as conflict-prevention and humanitarian aid as conflict-relief. In areas riddled by repeated violence, any economic investment has to function as a little bit of both. If there is no clean line dividing the criminals from the warlords, it no longer makes sense to choose between investments in the justice system, in democracy or in formal diplomacy. Most of world’s fragile and failing states need all three, and they need them to complement one another.

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