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The Jamaican political conflict is a long-standing feud between right-wing and left-wing elements in the country, often exploding into violence. The Jamaican Labour Party (JLP) and the People's National Party (PNP) have fought for control of the island for years and the rivalry has encouraged urban warfare in Kingston .
Conflict Combatant 1 Combatant 2 Results Anglo-Spanish War (1654–1660) Spain. Spanish West Indies; Commonwealth of England: Treaties of Madrid (1667 and 1670) The English invasion of Jamaica takes place in May 1655. Spain formally cedes several territories to England, including Jamaica, in 1670. First Maroon War (1728–1740) Windward Maroons ...
Uppsala Conflict Data Program; Failed state; Ongoing conflicts in World List of ongoing armed conflicts Chronological List of wars: before 1000 List of wars: 1000–1499 List of wars: 1500–1799 List of wars: 1800–1899 List of wars: 1900–1944 List of wars: 1945–1989 List of wars: 1990–2002 List of wars: 2003–present Ongoing military ...
Part of the Iran–Iraq War and the Iraqi–Kurdish conflict: Iraq: KDP PUK: 1983 1983 United States invasion of Grenada United States Antigua and Barbuda Barbados Dominica Jamaica Saint Lucia Saint Vincent and the Grenadines Grenada Cuba: 1984 2003 Siachen conflict India [49] [50] [51] Pakistan: 1985 2000 South Lebanon conflict (1985–2000)
Amnesty International and Jamaica's third party have echoed these sentiments. [45] In 2013, the Government of Jamaica announced it would set up a Commission of Inquiry to investigate and report on the operation: the commission, informally known as the Tivoli Inquiry, started sitting in December 2014.
The Correlates of War project is an academic study of the history of warfare.It was started in 1963 at the University of Michigan by political scientist J. David Singer. [1] [2] Concerned with collecting data about the history of wars and conflict among states, the project has driven forward quantitative research into the causes of warfare.
The 1962 Constitution of Jamaica established a parliamentary system whose political and legal traditions closely follow those of the United Kingdom. As the head of state, King Charles III - on the advice of the Prime Minister of Jamaica - appoints a governor-general as his representative in Jamaica.
Armed Conflict Location & Event Data (ACLED) is a non-profit organization specializing in disaggregated conflict data collection, analysis, and crisis mapping.ACLED codes the dates, actors, locations, fatalities, and types of all reported political violence and demonstration events around the world in real time.