Given what tend to pop up daily on the front page of major news-sources, it might come as a surprise that 2016 has, thus far, shown a global slowing-down of previously escalating political conflicts. In a recent Boston Globe-article (linked), Joshua S. Goldstein and Steven Pinker explain why there’s been a decline in war (and ultimately deaths) over the first few months of this year, and why there’s reason to be cautiously optimistic over current statistics.
Davide Bonazzi, who was commissioned by editorial designer Nathan Estep to come up with an image for the article, cleverly summarized this positive news with the illustration below.
