RIOTS AND WAR

Riots and War



Riots and War

Introduction

This paper will be analyzing riots and war. For this we will be selecting an event from which riots and war has occurred. The media that we have selected for this assignment is the 3 day violent riot occurred in UK. In this case there were about 35 policemen injured and more than 200 people were arrested. We will discuss how it relates or conceit related to peace and war /violence and non violence.

Discussion Analysis

Root causes of violence, wars and what drives conflicts. The culture of violence pervades our society, glorifying war rather than educating for peace, nonviolence, and international cooperation. The continued military spending (USD $1.4 trillion per annum) in our society perpetuates a culture of violence and hostilities. Military spending in armed conflicts, involvement of Pentagon and Military Industrial Complex's 'war of aggression,' has a direct vested interest in the perpetuation of such conflicts is a major cause of ongoing wars.

Terrorism, fundamentalism and radicalism are producing continued, unrelenting attacks on civilian and military targets around the world. Escalation of small arms and lights weapons (800 million in circulation) both start and prolong conflicts, causing millions of deaths. Production of new mini nukes, buster bunker bombs and stockpile of existing 30,000 nuclear warheads, along with proliferation of nuclear and biological information and technology can result in terrorism, indiscriminate mass killing and destruction (Angell, 1969).

Economic globalization has marginalized broad sections of the world's population, further widening the gap between rich and poor. The over use of environmental resources is neither sustainable nor equitable (Allison, 1969: 689). The world's dominant consumers are overwhelmingly concentrated among the well off, but the environmental damage from it falls most severely on the poor, over consumption of the earth's resources can result in ecological mayhem. Increasing colonialism and neo-colonialism is evident in indigenous and un-represented people who are suffering from the suppression of their right to self-determination, ethnic and cultural genocide, and the violation of their cultural, language and religious freedoms, and the militarization and nuclearisation of their lives, lands and waters.

Ethnic, religious and racial intolerance and nationalism are among the principal sources of modern armed conflict. The costs of the gender injustice and machismo that still pervades most societies are high for men whose choices are limited by this standard, and for women who experience continual violence both in war and in peace.

Lack of protection and respect for children & youth continue to be exploited and victimized, particularly in violent conflict situations where harming children have become not only a consequence, but frequently a strategy of war. The lack of democracy and just global governance at all levels of society are causing conflicts and replacing the rule of law with the rule of force. The common assumption is that violence and warfare are inherent in human nature (Alger, 1977: 277). A violence inlocal community paves the way for conflicts at national and international levels. The role of media in one dimensional reporting, and thus, it is misrepresenting ...