Monday, August 27, 2012

Global Peace: A Delusion at Present

Have you ever wondered why we human beings have not been able to achieve global peace? Our technological advancement has been terrific, but why have we not learnt to co-exist peacefully? Why some or the other region in the world has to be a “conflict zone”? 

 Courtesy:  http://www.oxfam.org/en/content/2012-g8-summit-camp-david-maryland
The answer is simple: Peace does not help generate money for the ruling class. 

Leaders of countries with “conflict zone” are short sighted, corrupt, self-indulgent, incompetent or all of that and continue ‘kicking the can down the road’, neglecting steps for the real solutions. This is the scenario in most of the developing countries with conflicts.

Whereas, leaders in “conflict-free” countries need conflict in other countries to drive their economy. Check the list of ‘Top Arms Exporters’ (Ref: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, 2012. http://www.sipri.org/googlemaps/2012_of_at_top_20_exp_map.html):

1. USA
2. Russia
3. Germany
4. France
5. United Kingdom
6. China
7. Spain
8. Netherlands
9. Italy
10. Israel

If there is peace in the world, who will buy the arms? The list is full of “developed nations” (except China, Russia which fall in developing category). All these nations often look out for excuses to intervene in other countries’ conflicts. In the name of “peace”, “democracy” and “freedom”, they often generate more complexities by providing arms to rival groups, fueling the conflicts; for example: almost all wars around the world after IInd World War. Interestingly, all five permanent members of UN Security Council are topping this list of the arms sellers.

No wonder, global peace is a delusion in the present world order.

See this interactive world map of conflict zones:
Slide the arrow to see how number of conflicts has increased in recent times.

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