Comfort Ero offers three lessons for peacemaking in an unstable world

By Comfort Ero, president of International Crisis Group

We are in the middle of a very violent decade. Since 2020 a series of major wars—in Ethiopia, Myanmar, Ukraine, Sudan and the Middle East—has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives. The number of smaller conflicts is also rising. Over a quarter of countries globally are afflicted by some form of serious violence. The year ahead is unlikely to see much of a let-up.