He believes World War III will happened in his life time, and those fears only increased when tensions between Iran and the US intensified. "Geopolitically the Middle East is under the eyes of all the super powers and those super powers will always use their proxy wars to fight on our land," he said. While he's now moved to the US, he still doesn't believe the Middle East will ever see calm. Researcher Muhammaad Al-Sayyed, 27, lived in Lebanon, which borders Syria and Palestine, for 16 years. In particular, residents of Israel and Palestine believed they would never see an end to conflict in the region, with a whopping 65 per cent of respondents believing the violence to "never end". However, millennials in countries currently active in conflict such as Ukraine, Syria, Palestine, Israel, Nigeria, Colombia and Afghanistan, had all agreed there would be another world war soon. The future is in their hands," Mr Daccord said. "Millennials and youth are fighters in current and future conflicts. The death of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani is a watershed moment, even in the long and bloody history of Middle East conflict. With the world in such disarray, it came to no surprise to Mr Daccord that millennials living in countries at war had hope for a brighter future and were willing to stand up for humanity, with 74 per cent believing most wars could be avoided. Three out of four millennials believe war is avoidable "It is very concerning that almost half of all millennials think it’s more likely than not that there will be a third world war in their lifetime," he said.
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"Our global survey reveals that millennials are nervous about their future and see cataclysmic war as a real likelihood in their lifetime," ICRC director-general Yves Daccord said. It also revealed that 84 per cent completely disagreed with the use of nuclear weapons, but more than half of them, 54 per cent, thought an attack would occur in the next 10 years. The data overwhelmingly showed millennials were nervous about their futures, with more than half believing that nuclear weapons are likely to be used somewhere in the world within the next decade. The global report interviewed 16,000 millennials aged between 20 and 35 from 16 countries and territories at peace and at war around the world.