However, the gap between the two types of conflict has grown ever greater in recent decades and
years. In this respect, the region can be considered representative of world-wide developments.
Worthy of mention is, in particular, the freezing of domestic bellicose conflicts at a relatively high
level as well as the drastic increase since the end of the Cold War in the number of domestic violent
crises.
Thus, we can confirm the trend toward “minor wars” between state and non-governmental groups
as well as among non-governmental groups discerned by other conflict researchers toward
(Daase, 1999) in Asia. That said, these conflicts of “low” and “medium-intensity violence” in which
violence is deployed to a limited extent, in single cases or only sporadically and which one can
therefore hardly describe as wars (Schwank, 2008) are not a new phenomenon in Asia. Essentially
they have shaped the face of conflict in Asia for decades now.