Category: Challenges
There are many challenges to peace to societies and the world as a whole.
- Agriculture and its role in inequality
- Going from hunter-gatherer to agrarian societies marked a huge change in humanity's development, but also enabled the two major inequalities we have today.
- Alliances of nations
- World politics is not just about the big players.
- Assessing risk
- When presented with challenges to our current situation, we have to assess how much risk they are.
- Culture-based violence is not OK
- Modern democratic societies try to incorporate more tolerance of cultural diversity, but there are aspects of many cultures that are antithetical to this goal.
- Dr Black and Mr White
- Everyone was expecting Barak Obama to be some sort of savour to the black people of the US, claiming to bring hope to the many, but that's all it was.
- Fringe porn
- The massive amount of information on the web has enabled some marginal ideas to enter into mainstream discourse. This is not necessarily good for society as a whole.
- Identity and power
- It is said we are in an era of so-called identity politics, but what is it and is it new?
- Male – the invisible gender
- Like white people are considered the invisible race, because they view themselves as the default cultural perspective, male is the hidden gender, in that patriarchy is the dominant perspective.
- Money
- Many, including many political parties, are focussed upon money as the solution to their problems, but is that the right way to view it?
- No discussion with delusion
- Many seem to think that many of our issues are because people on both sides are taking up intractable positions and being unwilling to hold rational discussions to solve them.
- Politicians still don't get it
- Many politicians still seem to fail to understand why they are not trusted by voters. Hint: Their allegiance is not to their voters.
- Quotas
- Some see having quotas for women or others as being a free ride, instead of being based on merit. It is not. They are about finding out what is stopping them achieving the number of positions that represents their numbers in society.
- Social media
- People often seek to communicate as a means of validation. Social media celebrates and encourages that, but not in a way that serves us.
- The glamour of Russia
- The Russian revolution in 1917 was the start of veneration of Russia as a sort of leftist utopia. It continued even when Stalinist Russia was known to be far from that utopia.
- The myth of race
- Racial discrimination is based upon the idea that there are distinct races. However, the sequencing of the human genome showed that there are no genetic markers that definitively identify race.
- Tourism, pandemics and climate change
- Tourism gets hit hard by pandemics as countries close down their borders to protect their citizens. Travel within countries is also restricted, and businesses are shut down, resulting in cleaner air.
- What are debates for?
- For some reason, instead of sitting down to nut out solutions to problems, we run debates.