There are dozens of ongoing wars in the world:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_ongoing_armed_conflicts
Several of the countries participating in WLM 2022 are involved in an
armed conflict connected to one of the major global emergencies per UNHCR.
https://www.unhcr.org/emergencies.html
UNESCO has some initiatives for some areas where wars have somewhat
subsided, like Iraq, but I couldn't quickly find systematic data about
all ongoing conflicts.
https://www.unesco.org/en/revive-mosul
http://uis.unesco.org/en/topic/sustainable-development-goal-11-4
I doubt it's wise or feasible to task the WLM team (or any group of
people inside Wikimedia really) with deciding whether one war is worse
than another, who is responsible for what, at what point responsibility
warrants punishment on the citizens of that country etc.
It's also probably hard to find any country which is not currently
involved in the violent destruction of cultural heritage somewhere in
the world. (EU countries would probably be the first to be excluded,
given all we've done around the world. Colonialism and its effects are
still alive and well.)
A more feasible objective might be to draw some rules about direct
involvement of WLM activities and resources in areas under conflict, if
we don't have any yet. It would be embarrassing if a photo from an
occupied/contested area won the contest run from the "wrong" country, or
worse if grants were used to somewhat fund an occupation. These are
things we can actually measure and change.
Best,
Federico
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