Tens of thousands more people are dying in armed conflicts around the world, even as the number of conflicts falls, according to an authoritative study that attributes the rising death toll to an "inexorable intensification of violence".
Naturally, the task of easing these conflicts falls to a scrappy band of outsiders, led by Newt, the eccentric foreigner, and Tina Goldstein Katherine Waterstonn), a former magical investigator trying to earn her way back into MACUSA's good graces.
When the social programs that give rise to such conflict fall prey to budget cuts, and young, vulnerable mothers fall short without help, the cycle of poverty is allowed to perpetuate itself.
The outcry over the lack of humanitarian access is putting more and more pressure on the United Nations Security Council to ensure it doesn't simply let this conflict fall to the back of their minds.
Those countries variously suffered from high youth unemployment, ethnic conflict, falling living standards, authoritarian government and worries about immigration.
The number of people killed as a direct result of armed conflict fell from a peak in 2014 of 143,000, to 119,000 the following year and 99,000 in 2016.
The UK and other wealthy nations have resettled less than 2% of Syrian refugees escaping the bloody conflict, falling far short of their "fair share", according to Oxfam.
A particular act of killing might be wholly permissible if the conflict in which it occurs is a war, yet be an instance of murder if the conflict falls short war.
The World Bank found that when income per person doubles, the risk of civil war halves, and that for each percentage point by which the growth rate rises, the risk of conflict falls by a point.
