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Web of wars is constructed from Richardson's data for international conflicts of magnitude greater than 3.5. Two nations are connected by a line if they had actual hostilities (not just a formal declaration). The color and thickness of the line indicate the magnitude of the overall war, not the specific conflict between the two nations. Civil wars are omitted, and the diagram ignores many changes in national status (such as the assembly and disassembly of Yugoslavia). The two-letter codes for country names are those used for Internet domains.
source: http://www.americanscientist.org/Issues/Comsci02/compsci2002-01cap5.html
QUOTE: "War deaths amount to something like 1 percent of all deaths; in many places, more die by suicide, and still more in accidents. If saving human lives is the great desideratum, then there is more to be gained by prevention of drowning and auto wrecks than by the abolition of war." (Brian Hayes)
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