EMA Second Thematic Conference Presentation

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EMA Second Thematic Conference

presentationOgunbanwo Saheed Adebayo

Erasmus Course: Agrismundus (Sustainable

development in Agriculture)University College Cork,

Cork,

Ireland.

March 29-30th, 2010.


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Tolerance and Understanding ofour cultural differences: The key

to Global peaceful co-existence.


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OUTLINE OF PRESENTATIONy Introduction

y Brief history of Wars/crises

y

Types of wars/crisesyWars/crises region after the World Wars

y Causes of Wars/crises/Conflicts

y Impacts of Wars/crises/Conflicts

y Short and Long terms effects of Wars/Conflict/conflicty Facts and Figures of impacts of Wars/crises/conflicts

y The way Forward

y Case studies


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Introductiony It is Almost a century ago that the World experienced

the first calamity/chaos

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It is more than a half century after the second Worldwar

y There is still crises/Wars in Some Regions of the Worldup till today

y Conflicts leads to crises/Wars

y There is the need for Global peace

y How can we Achieve it ?

y The Goals of individuals and Corporate bodies


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Brief History of crises in the Worldy The first World War popularly called (the great War) first

broke in Europe in the summer of 1914 and ended in 1918.

y The second World war which came barely two decades afterthe first world war between (1939-1945). This War causedmore devastating effect than the first war. Millions ofpeople were killed.

y After the end of the Second World War. Although, there isno other World War but series of Tribal, Civil and Religiouswar has continue to dominate virtually every nations. e.g.Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland in Europe,Liberia civil war in Africa. Religious/Ethnic Crises in somepart of Nigeria.


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Types of wars/conflictStudies have shown that there are two types of Wars.

1. Crisis (or generational): This is believe to have come

from people within a society, region or nation.2. Non Crisis (or Mid-Cycle): This is believe to be

political in nature, it comes from the politicians andcan start at anytime and ends at any time.


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Wars/crises region after the World

warsy In 2004, Generational Dynamics listed six regions of

the world where third War may arise from as:

y Palestine/Israely Russia/Caucasus

y India/Pakistan

y China/Taiwan

y Korea/Japan

yWestern Europe


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Wars/ Crises Region ContinueAlso in 2006, The human Security brief report released

by school of International studies in Simon Frazer

University Toronto, Canada, Identifies four regions ofthe world to have been increasing in the number ofcrises/conflicts between 2002-2005 as:

y Central/ South Asia

yMiddle East /North Africa

y The Americans

y South East Asia/ Oceania.


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Causes of wars/conflictIntolerance is the major cause of all the conflicts/wars

experienced in the early centuries and in the recent times.Also, studies have shown that there are many causes of wars,

conflicts and crises. Among the worldly acceptable causesare:y Racismy Nationalismy Religious strife

y Ignorancey Language barriery Extreme povertyy wealth


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Impacts of Wars/conflictsImmediate and short term effects of wars/conflicts are:

y Loss of lives and properties

y Food and fuel price hikesy The Global recession

yAn influenza pandemic

y Swine flu HIV/AIDS

y Climatic Change

y Series of other natural disasters such as floods


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Long term effects of Wars/crisesyWars/Conflicts have a very long lasting negative

impacts on human developments; destroy physical and

human capital leading to increases in Malnutritionwith a profound Psycho- social impacts as it rips ofsocieties or countries apart.


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Facts and Figures of Impacts of

Wars/Conflictsy The United Nation development Programme (UNDP)

in 2009 estimated that everyday armed violence has

killed more than 2000 people, most of whom werecivilians.

y Globally, the economic losses caused by criminalviolence have been calculated to be as high as US$163

billion per year.


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The Two Big Questions!There are two big questions that comes to mind when

talking about global peace and they are:

yCan peace be achieved in the world?

y How can we change the world with all its conflicts andwars into one Harmony and cooperation consideringthe different cultural and religious background of each

countries?


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The answers to the questionsy Yes, peace can be achieved in the world. We must not

forget that peace is the only pre-requisite for a society

to survive bearing in mind that humanity has manyand varied challenges.

y Therefore, Global peace should be consider asinevitable, it is what we must seek and found among

ourselves. If we want peace for ourselves we should bepeaceful to others as well.


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The way forwardIndividual Goals

y The ultimate goal of every individual should be how all the

world will be unite as one family.y For the world to be successful in the establishment of peace

we must all do away with prejudice in any form; be it ofrace, colour, class, creed, nation, sex, and degree of wealth.

y Selfishness, Aggression and Intolerance have been assumed

to be inseparable part of human nature. But there is theneed for all to move away from this assumption and weshould believe that people can and do change.

At least change is the only thing that is constant in life.


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Individual Goal ContinueWhere there is no peace there can not be

development(IMF)

Therefore, the structure ,causes and values of peaceshould be understood by all, we all need to bring astrategic approach to raising the worlds attention andawareness to the importance of peace as the onlypanacea to the Global Wars/conflicts and the Survival

of humanity.The introduction of Global peace Index (GPI) in 2007 by

Steve Killelea (an Australian IT Entrepreneur andPhilanthropist)


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Corporate and Global Goalsy There must be a sincere and large world body which

will be able to prevent wars/conflicts and settle

disputes between countries.y There is the need for signing of a world peace treaty

by all the nations ,with representatives of each countryand any nation that breaks the treaty should bear the

consequence.


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Corporate Goals continuedAlso, more violent countries can learn from the

characteristics of the less violent ones. In other words

individuals, the national actors and the internationalcommunities can search for the behaviours that areassociated with peace and violent free, which they canembark upon instead of trying to fight and preventconflicts and war.


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Case study 1Tribal/ethnic crises in Some Villages in Nigeria

y Understanding the norms and values of each

community or environment.y Respect the culture of the people

y Tolerance

y diplomacy

yjustice


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Case study 2The Crises among some sets of students in Ireland

y Understanding each other

y Tolerancey Respect of culture

y Managing Crises

y Communication gaps


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Thank you all For listening!


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