Global framework is the need to end all wars |
The fall of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union once kindled hopes for a more peaceful world. Those hopes were brutally tested by the attacks of 11 September 2001, and subsequent crises have continued to expose deep fractures in human behaviour and global governance. Even the collective efforts that contained the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic failed to produce a lasting shift toward cooperation; instead, we keep witnessing again and again a Hobbesian retreat into fear, hostility, self-interest and pompous chest-thumping.
The brinkmanship of short-sighted leaders and flawed decision-making has pushed humanity toward recurring crises testing the moral, institutional frameworks and near collapse of the rules-based global order. One wonders how soon the current status quo would be overtaken by the looming uncertainty namely Artificial Super Intelligence. People everywhere long for peaceful resolution of conflicts at every level – within families, communities, nations, and between countries – but procedural fixes alone cannot heal the deeper social, economic, and political pathologies that fuel conflicts and wars. Time and again, the world has been spared catastrophe more by luck than by design, whether through miscalculation or the failure of nuclear fail-safes. The nation-state system, premised on absolute sovereignty, has revealed its limits in addressing problems that cross borders.
Global markets remain vulnerable to currency volatility and concentrated wealth, with roughly one per cent of the population controlling the vast majority of resources. Many poorer countries struggle to meet basic needs while servicing debt and diverting scarce resources to internal conflicts and disaster relief. These pressures risk cascading into broader economic collapse if the ongoing Middle-East crisis continues........