DOES WAR SOLVE CONFLICT ?

                       DOES WAR SOLVE CONFLICT ?
                        CHIBU NDUBUISI     24/04/3017

Peace be to you.

Why did mighty empires crumble even with the strenght of their armies? Johan Galtung talks about positive and negative peace. For positive peace he defines it as the absence of structural violence and negative peace to mean presence of structural violence. For positive peace to be, structures of rule of law, respect of human rights, respect for dissenting voices and strong institutions must be able to work independently without meddlesome overbearing influence of other structures in the system. We can remember vividly the recent travel ban in the USA by an executive order of  President Donald Trump and how a court of competent jurisdictions reversed the ban because it negates some principles of their federation. Negative peace is  when Economic and Financial Crime commission (EFCC )or police for example in Nigeria becomes the jury and prosecutor In a case that requires the judiciary to play its own part. The murder of APO six is a case in point. It is when the presidency unjustly detains people even when a court of competent jurisdictions has given judgement that such people be released. Such empires dont last. Empires that undervalue people dont last.

Since the invasion of Iraq,  lybia,Afghanistan, can it be said that America solved the conflicts in these regions or aggravated them? In the short run, governments were changed but in the long run what we have seen is woe after woe.

Can Nigeria  boast that after the Biafra war( 1967-1970) that the issues that led to the war in the first place  were solved? The answer is obvious from the continued agitation from that region in the guise of  MASSOB and IPOB.

Many war pundicts would want us to believe that war solves problems. Yes, it might in the short run but in the long run it does not solve any conflict that was occasioned by faulty structural systems that needs fixing. "A society that scorns plumbing because it is a humble job and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted job, neither its pipes nor theories will hold water".

Jonathan sacks writes that "one day we will learn the lessons of peace, that war never solved any conflict in the long run. That in victory the victor is defeated. That in conquering others, we diminish ourselves.

Lets keep negotiating for a better tomorrow.

Peace be with you

Comments

  1. Unknown24 April 2017 at 19:35

    Everyone has a duty to ensure that peace is sustained in the society,and it starts especially from the small community called Family.

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