To achieve peace must wars be waged? The economic impact from decline in this area across the world was 13.6 billion (millions and millions) dollars in 2015. The world has turned into a less peaceful place, due to an increase in terrorism, violence and political instability.
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In Focus
Facundo Cabral nocturne
The Argentinean singer could not talk until he was 9 years old, illiterate until he was 14, widowed at the age of 40, he met his father at 46, and he was killed by drug traffickers at 73 years old on 9th July 2011 in Guatemala City. Armando Orozco […]
A dream of Europe
The European Union is a contemporary manifestation of Kant’s fantasy of universal peace. Long condemned as chimerical, his vision is increasingly being realised in Europe. Steve Latham This project of the imagination is, of course, fragile, ever likely to disintegrate into atavistic warfare, as in the Balkans at […]
Forward the fracture!
Daniel Rodgers’ book “Age of fracture” argues that the consensus underlying western society has become fractured, and any notion of cultural unity lost. Steve Latham He traces this back to roots within both conservative and liberal thinking in the last quarter of the Twentieth Century. Both Right and […]
The wickedness of “media bashing”
One of their worst qualities is their intensely public impunity. There is no going back. The slander, lies, rumours, gossip, false evidence and generally all the attacks provided by the civil and penal codes, are especially hostile when they happen in public, without boundaries or possible restraint. Fernando Buen […]
















