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Intellectual Lynch-mobs

An obstacle to progress

are more likely to lead to some people dying, some people being tortured, some people

being driven into exile.
Are you in the business of 'human rights' or are you in the business of improving 'human

rights' in Africa's least developed countries?
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It may be decades too late to say this, but where were the Human Rights organisations

during those decades of Bretton Woods Institutions bludgeoning by Structural Adjustments

and Conditionalities? Have the leadership of your Human Rights organisations ever gone
back and self-examined the volume of commentary your organisation gave to individual

African leaderships in relation to the volume you gave Bretton Woods Institutions?
Those same Bretton Woods Institutions whose dogma future historians may well describe

as little better than that of the 19th Century colonists?

Are you in the business of 'human rights' or are you in the business of improving 'human
rights' in Africa's least developed countries?

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Intractable Conflicts

Resolving protracted social conflict
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As Edward Azar stated:
"Reducing overt conflict requires reduction in levels of underdevelopment. Groups that seek to
satisfy their identity and security needs through conflict are in effect seeking change in the

structure of their society. Conflict resolution can truly occur and last if satisfactory
amelioration of underdevelopment occurs as well. Studying protracted conflict leads one to

conclude that peace is development in the broadest sense of the term."
"Protracted Social Conflict." 419
Wikipedia
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One of the biggest curses of the modern age is the widespread scattering of 'intractable
conflicts'. UK struggled for generations, and at considerable social and economic cost,

with what was often referred to as 'the Northern Ireland Problem'. The UK, the home of so
many diaspora, could list any number of our country's legacy from 'intractable conflicts' in

far-off lands. And the rate at which the world finds a solution to even one 'intractable

conflict' is pitifully slow.