THE FUTURE OF DISASTERS: INTERESTING TRENDS FOR INTERESTING TIMES.

This article presents information regarding the trends in natural disaster. the succeeding years clearly demonstrated that disasters resulting from conflicts are of equal significance to natural disasters in terms of their human toll. Genocide, ethnic cleansing, and ethnic and religious civil wars in the former Yugoslavia, Chechnya, and East Timor attracted considerable numerical toll and in its long-term steadfastness of purpose is the genocide of Burundi, Rwanda and Darfur. Traditional models of disaster study have long focused on disasters as fitting within three relatively neat and predictable categories, which can be described as natural, man-made, and national security.