Conflicts Within Nations

topic posted Mon, October 22, 2007 - 6:06 PM by  Roger
The United Nations, despite loads of criticism -- particularly fromt he Bush administration -- has done a splendid job in bringing countries together, or at least, to the negotiation table. But what can the United Nations do about racism, fascism and conflicts between groups WITHIN nations? For example, a new crack down (one of many, I'm understanding) is being carried out by the Australian government against indigineous people (Please peruse the article below) under the guise of protecting the state agains prospective terrorism. I find these sorts of conflicts to be very troubling because would international laws of protection and human rights apply, considering that these are affairs that oocured within nations and when one of the perpetraitors is countries government? Of course, we have precedence, such as, the Rwandan genocide, but what happens when the situation isn't as serious as genocide? What role can the U.N. play in reconciling these kinds of conflicts in this "new" age of fear and global "terrorism"?

www.iht.com/articles/200...2/asia/nz.php
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Roger
Miami
  • Re: Conflicts Within Nations

    Mon, June 2, 2008 - 11:11 AM
    The first thing we can do is to realize that there is very little threat a the national level. The major terrorist act is over with, and the orboros of the military is what we are actually dealing with. So the economic whiplash, which comes around as Lakota mining operations excavating uranium or war veterans in recovery who become angry. Many of these men who have more experience with munitions than the average engineer create. small acts of violence targeted usually at a personal level, undifferentiated by the press, which are now referred to as 'terrorist acts' are what Homeland Security mostly deals.

    The environmental crisis may soon do away with any intention to create a wartime envirionment. "Peak water' is actually created not just by global climate shifts, but by the impact that war has on the environment, self-fulfilling prophesy, not the other way around. As we learn how to live in an impending desert-like world, our fantasy life becomes enamored with objects...a new materialism emerges, and the helpless reality of growing food and finding water impacts on our consciousness. Having a job in order to feed ourselves and our communities become crucial, and more and more people end up on the lower end of the food chain and pay scale. Finding ways of sharing resources with peaceful means becomes paramount. Sustainbility in local biohm and in local community
    groups is essential.