Human Wrongs Watch
– A Chinese curse is “May you live in interesting times”. That meant that too many events would disrupt the essential elements of harmony, on which the Chinese pantheon is based.
Roberto Savio
We certainly live in very interesting times where every day dramatic events pile on us, from terrorism to coup d’etat, from climate disaster to the decline of institutions and ever increasing social turmoil.
It would be important, even if very difficult, to look in a nutshell why we are in this situation now – “lack of harmony.” So here goes a dramatically compressed explanation.
Let us start from a little known fact. After the Second World War, there was a general consensus on the need to avoid the repetition of its horrors.
The United Nations served as the meeting place for all countries, and the Cold War created as a reaction, an association of the newly independent countries, the Non Aligned countries, which acted as a buffer between the East and West camps.
More, the North South divide become the most important aspect of international relations. So much so that in 1973, the United Nations General Assembly adopted unanimously a resolution on a New International Economic Order (NIEO).
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