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"The
wide-ranging contrast between rich and poor as the principle characteristic of
the relationship between the north and the south makes up the most urgent
task of our age. An absence of violence and war in performing this task must
remain the central theme. (...). Irrespective of the fact that the consummate
level of poverty to be encountered in developing countries bears witness to the
hardly tolerable structures of discord in the sense of structural
violence,
counterforce
is to be reckoned with in line with the increasing consciousness of this state.
Besides the north-south divide as a global dimension of conflict, several fields
of conflict exist in the third world which also need to be transformed into the
object of peace-educational reflection. Due to boundaries often being drawn by
former colonial powers according to power-political perspectives, ethnic groups
who were separated are now
pressurizing for
reunification for reasons of common culture and language, thus catering for
permanent conflict. A third important significant potential for conflict is
created by efforts for cultural autonomy as have been arising increasingly in
the form of Africanisation, Arabisation and Islamisation since the 60s." |
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Human Rights I
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Democracy I
Parties I Europe
I Globalisation
I United Nations
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