The Emerging Conflicts – Other Future Fault-lines of the World

2017 ◽  
pp. 123-136
Keyword(s):  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines

scholarly journals COVID-19 Highlights, Fault Lines in China, India and the World

Social Change ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 50 (3) ◽  
pp. 473-478
Author(s):  
Manoranjan Mohanty
Keyword(s):  
Child Welfare ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Mass Communication ◽  
Fault Line ◽  
Private Initiative ◽  
The Third ◽  
Individual Enterprise ◽  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines

The on going COVID-19 pandemic has succeeded in bringing before us many social, political fault lines which can no longer be ignored and must be addressed urgently. The first is the phenomenon of inequality in power, status, wealth and living conditions which has been growing rapidly in recent decades within countries and between countries. The second is the clear decline of publicness in society, economy and politics. Inspired by capitalism, individual enterprise and private initiative have been eulogised to such an extent that the state’s investment in basic public goods such as health, education, housing and child welfare has remained woefully inadequate. The third fault line is an over-centralisation of power leading to a clear decline of democracy by manipulating institutional mechanisms and making full use of the technology of mass communication to mobilise votes. If these emerging fault lines don’t engage global rulers immediately then the sufferings faced by humanity the world over will explode.

New Fault Lines? On Responsibility and Disasters

2014 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristian Cedervall Lauta
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Criminal Law ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Disaster Research ◽  
Legal Process ◽  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Central Claim

This article investigates the L'Aquila decision. It aims to present a theoretical framework from contemporary disaster research and political philosophy to better understand why blame and responsibility has come to play such a prominent role in the aftermath of disasters. Furthermore, it presents a number of examples from criminal law around the world to provide context to the decision. The central claim in tthis piece is that the decision is not an extraordinary, isolated decision on responsibility following disasters; rather the decision is emblematic to an on-going development of disaster responsibility. Thus, after disaster follows a legal process aimed at identifying, and if necessary, penalizing the mistakes leading to the horrifying outcome. In that way disasters are increasingly like any other event in society with major negative implications; it is evaluated and if appropriate adjudicated.

scholarly journals Post-Crisis Reckoning: Making Sense of Early 21st-Century Civilizational Ruptures

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
György Kalmár
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Sense Making ◽  
Cultural Logic ◽  
Early 21St Century ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
The World ◽  
Key Concepts ◽  
Default Position ◽  
Fault Lines

Abstract As the world is struggling with the Covid crisis and its numerous aftereffects, it is easy to forget that the present pandemic is only the latest of a whole series of paradigm-changing 21st-century crises. Indeed, the word “crisis” has become one of the key concepts for the understanding of the early 21st century. Thus, crisis seems very much to be the default position of the 21st century, the new norm. In this paper, I argue that the 21st century has a recognizably different cultural logic from what the previous one had: most of our social, ideological, political, financial, and ecological paradigms are either changing or will (or must) change soon. As most of our critical concepts, intellectual tools, and ideological frameworks were made during the boom years of the late 20th century, they are clearly outdated and inadequate today. Thus, in this paper, through taking account of these shifting intellectual and artistic paradigms, I attempt to indicate how the present crisis of knowledge and sense-making may be turned into a process of knowing and making sense of crisis, and thus help us meet the challenges of the new century. It is often through these fault-lines, breakdowns, and inconsistencies of our narratives that one may recognize those pre-crisis assumptions that we have to critically re-evaluate and update in order to understand the new century.1

scholarly journals When States Go Thirsty: A Critical Analysis of Water War Thesis

2017 ◽  
Vol II (I) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Manzoor Ahmad ◽  
Adil Khan ◽  
Muhammad Imran Mehsud
Keyword(s):  
Water Resources ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
Critical Analysis ◽  
Climate Changes ◽  
Water Crisis ◽  
Basic Premise ◽  
Water Wars ◽  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines

This paper discusses water war thesis. It argues that water war thesis is loosely based on the arguments by different world leaders, and writers which state that the new fault lines between states will be drawn on waters. The basic premise of the water war thesis rests on the argument of water crisis; the demand-supply gap will make states thirsty for water. It asserts that as climate changes unfold and population of the world increases, the thirsty states of the world will vie for water resources which will result in water wars. However, there are different writers who challenge the thesis by arguing that instead of generating conflict, water scarcity will induce cooperation amongst riparian states. This paper mainly focuses on this question of whether water scarcity results in conflict or cooperation. In other words, it offers a critical analysis of the water war thesis

Sound Off!: Placement Tests: The Shaky Bridge Connecting School and College Mathematics

2006 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 174-178
Author(s):  
Sheldon P. Gordon
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Earth’S Crust ◽  
Placement Tests ◽  
College Mathematics ◽  
News Reports ◽  
The Earth ◽  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Earth's Crust

The earth's crust is composed of a series of large plates floating on underlying molten magma. These plates are constantly shifting, and as they bump into one another, one plate often rides up on top of the other near its edges. The interfaces between plates form fault lines in the earth, and the resultant pressures that build up along the interfaces eventually release to form earthquakes, as we are too often reminded in vivid news reports from around the world.

Terrorizing defences: Sport in the Liberian civil conflict

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (3) ◽  
pp. 358-378 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gary Armstrong ◽  
James Rosbrook-Thompson
Keyword(s):  
Civil Conflict ◽  
Charles Taylor ◽  
World Cup ◽  
Team Games ◽  
Football Team ◽  
The World ◽  
National League ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
The One ◽  
Rules Of The Game

The democratically elected President of Liberia was between 1997 and 2004 also the country’s ‘Chief Patron of Sport’. Enjoying tennis more than team games, the one-time President, Charles Taylor, realized that the electorate’s enthusiasm for the game of football meant that the game could be a useful vehicle with which to associate. As well as funding the salaries of the national ‘Lone Star’ football team, Taylor also sponsored a football team in the national league drawn from his personal militia known as the ‘Anti-Terrorist Unit’ (ATU). Prone to random murder by night, the same players, out of their recognizable uniform and in match kit, respected the rules of the game and the position of the referee. Others seeking the same sporting enjoyment were, when on the field of play in 2003, captured and forced to join the Presidential militia when rebel forces sought to overthrow Taylor. Players of another team – mainly children – were killed mid-match when a rocket-propelled grenade – origins contested – landed in their midst. The Liberian nation’s most famous citizen and one-time FIFA World Footballer of the Year, George Weah, twice fled the country in terror, once when threatened by the forces of the President, and again years later when an angry mob of irate football supporters blamed him for their national football team’s failure to qualify for the World Cup Finals. There was no shortage of incidents in Liberia in the aforementioned years that could be classed as ‘terrorist’ and indeed terrifying; sporting practice at times exemplified the alternatives available to conflict, yet at other times it accentuated the fault lines in what BBC political journalist Fergal Keane famously called Africa’s ‘basket case’.

scholarly journals Politics of care in the early years in Australia since the pandemic

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (4) ◽  
pp. 395-400
Author(s):  
Lisa Bryant
Keyword(s):  
Early Education ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Early Education And Care ◽  
The World ◽  
Education And Care ◽  
Care Systems ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Impact

Almost every part of human society have been impacted by COVID-19 and it has exposed our world’s economic and social fault lines. How each country cared for their youngest members rapidly became obvious as one of those fault lines. Many countries had inadequate early education and care systems that quickly started to buckle under the impact of lockdowns. What happened in Australia, although unique in the exact way it played out, was essentially replicated around the world. Education and care of our youngest citizens was realised to be essential, market based care systems began to crumble, the government poured more subsidies into the system, and educators and teachers watched as their roles were reduced in the public’s eye to childminders. Educators and teachers had to take on more work as they sought to engage with children at home, and sought to keep themselves safe. Eventually the government granted everybody that needed it, free ‘childcare’, a move that would see economists, feminists and families call for it to remain free once the country re-opened. The main opposition party has now joined that call and we may see a legacy of a re-imagined education and care system in Australia in the wake of the pandemic.

scholarly journals Impact of COVID-19 on Migrant Labourers of India and China

2020 ◽  
pp. 089692052097507
Author(s):  
Rajiv Ranjan
Keyword(s):  
Land Reform ◽  
Rural Economy ◽  
Chinese Word ◽  
Poverty Eradication ◽  
Chinese Migrants ◽  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Different Characteristics ◽  
India And China

The COVID-19 crisis has posed unprecedented economic challenges for governments across the world with certain sectors becoming more and more vulnerable to this pandemic. The plight of migrant labours in India during lockdown has shown fault lines not only in the economy but in the society too. The pandemic has worsened the condition of migrants both in India and China as it has put the severe challenges to poverty eradication programmes and increasing the income of farmers. Nevertheless, migrants labourers in both countries have different characteristics, Chinese migrants are farmers as the Chinese word for them 农民工 ‘nongmin gong’ signifies, whereas migrants labourers in India can be either small landholding farmers or landless labourers. This paper compares the plight of migrant labourers of both India and China in the current pandemic situation to contextualises the causes of this misery in the broader framework of land reform and capability to absorb them in rural economy in both countries.

Pakistan’s Susceptibility to 5th Generation Hybrid Warfare due to its Prevailing Fault Lines: A Comparative Analysis with Yugoslavia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Humayun Hassan
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Qualitative Analysis ◽  
Paradigm Shift ◽  
Former Yugoslavia ◽  
Hybrid Warfare ◽  
Economic Disparities ◽  
The World ◽  
Fault Lines ◽  
Generation Hybrid ◽  
Better Than

Warfare has witnessed a paradigm shift ever since the fall of USSR. The examples of Iraq, Afghanistan, and Sri Lanka are depictions of how this warfare destroys the opposing force. The world witnessed disintegration of former Yugoslavia in early 1990s due to internal warring factions. Literature argues that besides multitude of causes, a major role was played by socio-economic, religious and sectarian fault lines. Multiple scholars have argued that similar fault lines and problems are present in the contemporary Pakistan. These problems are prone to exploitation due to our inbuilt problems such as sectarianism, religious radicalization, and economic disparities. However, to a great extent, Pakistan has fared better than former Yugoslavia because of its ability to launch a multi-faceted offensive strategy, ranging from direct military action to counter-propaganda, and economic counteractions. To this end, this paper is a qualitative analysis of the exploitative component of 5th Generation Hybrid Warfare. It explicates how Pakistan has been successful in thwarting the threat and maintaining peace. Using existing literature and case studies, this paper also signposts the need to take certain measures which will be instrumental in preventing such issues from taking roots.

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