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Date: August 15, 2005 at 12:56:54
From: Richard Geegbae, [80.179.242.92.satcom-systems.net]
Subject: Peace & Conflict |
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Today I sit and see many countries in the world, especially in Africa,
allowing the international community to define peace as dispatching
operations resources/peacekeeper into countries of conflict and taking away
arms from fighters. Peace entails more that intervention of the "Blue
Helmets" on the ground of conflict; proper peace needs a wider and broader
notion of human security.
The roots causes of conflict should be identified. How this can happen is to
host conferences and workshops in these countries.?If these root causes are
identified a national conference on peace and reconciliation can be held,
inviting the parties to the conflict, opinion leaders as well as youth
leaders.
Another aspect is, peace can not be secure while poverty and starvation
continued to hang over these countries that are coming from war. There can
not be peace without alleviating poverty and the building of reconciliation
and freedom on the foundations of injustice. I wish to propose that these
failures such as conflicts are political problems and economic
problems which have political and economic solutions. There is nothing
inevitable about conflict in one part of the world,or tyranny in
another - human rights and freedom combined are as universal as they are
political, amenable to human agency of any colour or creed.
Finally, in this regard the international community and conflicts countries
should developed a clearer understanding both of the limits of peacekeeping
and also of its continuing usefulness.
By Richard Geegbae
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