Diminish Violence and Extremism
By Kamala Sarup
Peace will reduce conflicts, violence and extremism. If the leaders of countries promote education and values that
emphasize national and international identification, then the conflicts will diminish, in the long run. If they promote
sufficient economic, judicial and political equality, then the people at the bottom of the ladder will not want to
topple those at the top. Therefore, the results of reducing violence and extremism are that when people engage in
production and art rather than war, then the killing and maiming are reduced and the general living standards are
increased and people are more satisfied.
The results of reducing conflict, violence and extremism are that when people engage in production and art rather than
war, then the killing and maiming are reduced and the general living standards are increased and people are more
satisfied. However, people are ignorant, aggressive and acquisitive, so some conflict remain. That is why, in every
country, it is necessary to have a non-violence groups.
Most of the conflicts, violence and extremism is the result of reliance on the non-productive and poverty as a source of
food by the poor. Unfortunately, under capitalism, "the consumer is king", and under communist governments the hierarchy
takes care of itself, so people born in more favorable environments with ability and motivation will get a big share of
the food while those in less favored environments will go poor and they engage in war.
Every nations must redistribute income to the poor, but these efforts do not close the inequality gap sufficiently to
prevent poverty. Therefore, there will be continued violence and poverty. Today, humanitarian organizations, must
redistribute fund for poor from occurring as a result of wars. It is amazing to some people around the world go violence
and poor. The rationale for such policies would depress economy and bankrupt capital producers. Such is the thinking
driven by market economics.
The leadership are against improving the peaceful existence. So reduce conflicts, violence and extremism every nation
would have to import goods, including knowledge. Just tourism unskilled or semiskilled labor, which do not buy very
much. To make matters worse, tourism has not expanded and maybe even declined because of the ongoing war and terrorism,
which has also drained the economy of money that could be used more productively and for peace.
However, we must have sufficient money to improve the economy competence of our people either internally or by sending
them to foreign schools in sufficient numbers to make a difference economically to the entire world. It would be a major
contribution if scholars would make a cash flow analysis of the economy to determine with some precision where money
comes from and where it goes. That analysis might suggest some equalist that would accumulate it in sufficient
quantities to spend on improving its development.
How to contribute to equality, it is helpful to have an idea of how fundamental social change can come about? What role
do social movements or organizations play? What about protest, education, public policy, personal growth, alternative
institutions, reform?
However, some internal conflict, including wars, will not be exist if we improve our economy. If we study history, we
will find continued bloody and non-bloody conflicts. However, every nation must be peaceful, both internally and
externally. Will they remain so for the indefinite future?
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Nepali Journalist and Story Writer Kamala Sarup is an editor of peacejournalism.com. She is specialising in in-depth
reporting and writing on Peace, Anti War, Women, Terrorism, Democracy, and Development. Some of her publications are:
Women's Empowerment (Booklet). Prevention of trafficking through media (South Asia, Nepal Book) Efforts to Prevent
Trafficking in for Media Activism (Media research). Two Stories collections. Her interests include international
conflict resolution, cross-cultural communication, philosophy, feminism, political, socio-economic and literature. Her
current plans are to move on to humanitarian work in conflict areas in the near future. She also is experienced in
organizational and community development. A meeting of jury members held on 21 March in Geneva has decided to attribute
Kamala Sarup, with a Honorable Mention of International Award for Women Issue. http://peacejournalism.com/