Globalization and violence

Six ways are described in which the current phase of globalization has apparently tended to cause destructive violence notwithstanding its benefits to many people: (1) a fast-expanding gap between rich and poor, (2) the media making the gap evident worldwide, (3) ruthless big-business practices overwhelming weak international (and some national) laws, (4) worldwide availability of very destructive weapons, (5) a disturbingly fast rate of mutual cultural penetrations, (6) fear of macro-ecological catastrophes due to excessive increases in world population and in per-capita consumption and waste. The cause-and-effect relations are not simple but are a matter of intricate compounds. Some of the problems have to be addressed by strong government.

Recent terrorist attack in Paris, which was also shocking in its kind, set another exceptional example as to how cold-blooded criminals dare to target and kill people selectively. If we ask how this carnage could be prevented unfortunately no practical answer comes to mind. This means that people alike states are really helpless before terror and violence in similar conditions.

2006

International Interactions, 2012

2002

Globalisation—understood as external and internal market liberalisation—generates conditions in poor countries that are conducive to the emergence of extremist movements, instability and conflict. Liberalisation and the accompanying requirement of macroeconomic stabilisation subject people to rapid and sometimes devastating changes in fortune. Yet globalisation has had vastly different effects in different countries. Many have succumbed to sporadic growth or stagnation, inequality and turmoil, whereas others have achieved a broadly based prosperity, peace and democracy. A comparison of two liberalising African cases—Egypt and Mauritius—is employed to explain this divergence in paths. Mauritius has so far deftly navigated the maelstrom of globalisation by achieving growth with considerable equity and genuine democracy, while Egypt has followed a path of belated and partial liberalisation, irregular growth, the rise of new inequalities and insecurities, repression and violent Islamist movements. The major reason for this divergence lies in certain contingent institutional and class processes.

2006

the research is aim at exposing the positive and negetive impact of globalization on african nations