I en recension av Ranelids senaste bok stod siffran 12. Jag letade lite och hittade uppgiften "about 26" på Wikipedia. Där fanns en hänvisning till texten NATO and Peacekeeping, av en Robert J. Jackson, i vilken det hänvisas vidare:
http://www.nato.int/acad/fellow/95-97/jackson.pdfHugh Miall has calculated that since 1945 there have been over 150 armed conflicts with an estimated 25-30 million deaths, excluding famine and disease, and I. Kende has concluded that there have only been 26 days without war. See Hugh Miall, The Peacemakers (London: Macmillan,1992) and I. Kende "Local Wars since 1945", in E. Laszlo and J. Y. Yoo, eds., World Encyclopedia of Peace (New York: Pergamon,1986).
Någon som sitter inne med Istvan Kende?
Hittar även en hänvisning till hans Kriege nach 1945: Eine empirische Untersuchung (Frankfurt/Main 1982). Eller här, i Public Management of Society, till något han publicerade 1977 (Krigets nya ansikte på svenska?):
Between 1945 and 1976 there were worldwide 120 wars, with 25 million people dead in the territories of 71 countries. In this period, there were only 26 days of peace (Kende, 1977).