Building Bridges Between Cultures in the Nuclear Age: Globalization and the Current World-Wide War

Andregg, Michael M.
2005-08-26
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Building Bridges Between Cultures in the Nuclear Age: Globalization and the Current World-Wide War

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The peace community encourages building bridges between cultures to resolve conflicts and prevent war. Other positive results can be more trade to increase wealth, nation building, and growth of our global civilization by cross-fertilization of ideas and art as well as commerce. The UN asked people of goodwill to consider building bridges during a decade of dialogue among civilizations, rather than engage in destructive clashes. Unfortunately, the current “global war on terrorism” (“GWOT” in American military jargon) highlights some downsides to the building bridges theory. The same mechanisms that move people, money, goods, and information more efficiently can also move murderers, bombs, war plans, and nuclear or biological weapons components. Also, “Globalization” was increasing economic inequalities and tearing up established economies long before the current war. And “cultural hegemony” became a recognizable term long before the “war on terrorism” did. So global tension grows for many reasons. This paper will review these issues and examine three specific cases: South Africa, North and South Korea, and Israel / Palestine to ask whether, on balance, we are moving forward or backward on the road to peace and global harmony. One case appears a clear success, another a failure, and the third remains to be determined.

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This paper was presented at the inaugural conference of a World International Studies Committee affiliated with the International Studies Association. It attempts to apply concepts from peace studies to the global war on terror (GWOT) by examining three cases of persistent but evolving conflicts, in South Africa (apartheid), North and South Korea, and the Israeli - Palestinian conflict.

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World International Studies Committee, Bilgi University, Istanbul, Turkey

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