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    Scoop.co.nz (press release), New Zealand
    June 7 2005

    Kamala Sarup: Winning A Peace
    Opinion: Kamala Sarup

    Winning A Peace From Global Perspectives

    By Kamala SarupI see the many recent wars in many countries around
    the globe as the inevitable clash between the different political
    cultures and ideologies. Radical terrorists are attempting to
    preserve their culture from contamination by the non-radical
    cultures, but the pervasiveness of worldwide media make this
    objective impossible, in my opinion.

    It is a case of the rich, irreverent, profane, and materialistic
    versus the poor, devotional, fervent, ascetic, and theocratic.
    Ultimately, it must be resolved, as are all past wars, but it will
    likely take many years because of the large populations involved.

    But the majority people in favor on Peace, and they want technology.
    I believe the technology will prevail, ultimately, to preserve the
    economic interests too. In my opinion, the U.S. and its coalition
    partners temporarily will quiet Iraq and then leave, but I have
    little confidence that there will be continued peace there and in
    Afghanistan because of the many internal ethnic, religious, and clan
    differences.

    Suffering of civilians in war is increases substantially during any
    kind of war. Because of the bloody war, many countries are strewn
    with landmines, which kill thousands of people every year. Most of
    the abuses against children, including sexual assaults on girls, take
    place. Children often suffer alone, afraid of speaking out or being
    punished.

    The cold war ended with the collapse of communism, but on the other
    hand, radical forces bent on spreading fundamentalist ideologies have
    arisen. In the past several years, the fighting for power has
    continued not only in Nepal but in Sierra Leone, Burundi, Angola,
    Nigeria, Sudan, Liberia, Guinea, Zimbabwe, Congo. Several years after
    mass killings in Bosnia, Somalia, and Rwanda, there are at least six
    major cases of genocide. The mass killings of Armenians by Turks,
    Jews by Hitler, Cambodians by the Khamer Rouge, Kurds of the northern
    Iraq by Saddam Hussein, Tutsi of Rwanda by the Hutu and of Croats,
    Muslims and the Albanians of Kosovo by the Serbs.


    Recently, UN Secretary-General Annan has also said a number of
    countries underscored proliferation as a grave danger, while others
    argued that existing nuclear arsenals imperil us. He also points out
    that since the review conference last met in 2000, North Korea has
    announced its withdrawal from the treaty and declared itself in
    possession of nuclear weapons. Libya has admitted that it worked for
    years on a clandestine nuclear weapons program. And the International
    Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has found undeclared uranium enrichment
    activity in Iran.

    The 1972 BTWC prohibits the development, production; stockpiling,
    retention or acquisition of biological weapons is a unique class of
    weapons. Today, 143 States are parties to the Convention. Security
    Council Resolution 1325, adopted in October 2000, specifically
    mentions the need to consider the different needs of ex-combatants
    and their dependents in DDR (disarmament, demobilization and
    rehabilitation).

    Even this year had been a significant year in disarmament and arms
    control. The Moscow Treaty was a major bilateral achievement. A group
    of countries, the G-8, also took an important initiative to prevent
    the proliferation of sensitive technology and material related to
    weapons of mass destruction and reduction of conventional weapons.

    Recently, the secretary-general issued the report of his Policy
    Working Group on the United Nations, which contained 31
    recommendations for action against this global threat, including
    several relating to disarmament. Recommendation 18, for example,
    urges the consideration of the establishment of a mechanism in the
    Department for Disarmament.

    As a general principle, all disarmament obligations should indeed be
    rigorously enforced - compliance is an absolutely vital issue for the
    effectiveness and credibility of disarmament activities.
    non-governmental organizations, media organizations and peace and
    human rights organizations could play in promoting and implementing
    missile control and disarmament.

    So, there are plenty of problems and plenty of reasons why any
    governments, and International organizations, have an enormous role
    to play. Any International organizations and governments of the war
    torn countries must help to bringing peace. So toward eliminating the
    condition that sustain terrorism and violence, International
    organizations should work between the government and rebels and
    support a negotiated settlement.

    It is not easy to bring peace in the conflict areas. International
    organizations and governments must expand its role and program in the
    troubled countries including Nepal.

    It is Universal truth, People want peace. "Having to fight, having to
    pay the costs of wars from their own resources, having painfully to
    repair the devastation war leaves behind, and, to fill up the measure
    of evils, load themselves with a heavy national debt that would
    embitter peace itself and that can never be liquidated on account of
    constant wars in the future". Immanuel Kant said. To promote peace
    promotes a deeper and more durable peace because it promotes a social
    field, cross-pressures, and political responsibility; it promotes
    pluralism, diversity, and groups that have a stake in peace.


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    (Kamala Sarup is editor of http://peacejournalism.com/ )
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