New Delhi, Dec. 11 -- The adage 'kings' battle, plebeians perish' still holds good in contemporaneous geopolitical and geoeconomic tensions. Multidimensional protracted conflicts across regions and States have continued to adversely affect the protection of civilians and brought about catastrophic humanitarian consequences on them. The Global Risks Report 2025 ranked State-based armed conflict as the top risk for 2025.
Torture, suffering, death, injury, forced displacement, and enforced disappearance of civilians have become very common narrations in armed conflicts. Over the course of the 20th century civilian fatalities in war climbed dramatically from 5 per cent at the turn of the century, to 15 per cent during World War-I, to 65 per ce...