Country Report Parallel Research Programme - ICRC Worldwide Consultation on the Rules of War (International Committee of the Red Cross , 1999, 38 p.): Broad areas of comparability: Expectations for the future

Country Report Parallel Research Programme - ICRC Worldwide Consultation on the Rules of War (International Committee of the Red Cross , 1999, 38 p.)

Broad areas of comparability

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		Barrier between combatants and civilians
		Practices putting civilians at risk
		Treatment of captured combatants
		Child combatants
		Why norms of war are not observed
		Expectations for the future

Expectations for the future

When looking beyond the war, the respondents in the ICRC and parallel surveys express very similar expectations for the future. Solid majorities in both sets of studies think there will be peace in the future in their countries (57 per cent in the ICRC surveys and 61 per cent in the parallel surveys); a quarter in both sets of surveys (23 per cent, compared with 25 per cent) expect there to be more war in the future.

FIGURE 6 Future expectations (per cent of total population responding)