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Africa’s Diaspora to the RescueDAKAR – There is something dismally familiar about the tide of news reports concerning Africa’s increased suffering – more poverty, malnutrition, civil strife, and death – in the face of the recent global financial crisis.
US President Barack Obama, who has expressed deep concern about the overthrow of Morsi, is perhaps the only leader able to mediate in such a situation and work for a consensus solution that prevents a civil war.
In this narrative, Thaksin masterminded the siege by hiring a small group of rogue army officers, and by paying the poor to go to Bangkok to start a civil war.
Unless the ruling elite embrace an honest and earnest effort at national and class reconciliation and soon, Thailand could well descend into a civil war along class lines that would make the turmoil of the past two months in Bangkok seem like a brawl in a bar.
Whereas the US and Russia disagree about how to end the Syrian civil war, they have cooperated in disarming Syria of its chemical weapons.
Will such silence and neglect prevail again if civil war is renewed in Sudan?
Since Sudan won independence from the United Kingdom in 1956, the country has been convulsed by almost constant civil war based on the north-south cultural and religious divide.
More than two million people were killed in the second Sudanese civil war alone, which broke out in 1983 (essentially continuing the first war, which ended in 1972).
Legal and illegal migration triggers far-right hostility in countries that customarily brag about their commitment to civil liberties.
In Myanmar, Buddhist racism is at the root of a virtual civil war in the state of Rakhine and is fueling a humanitarian crisis in which hundreds of thousands of Muslim Rohingya have fled their country by land and sea.
The religious and ethnic passions of the Sinhalese were encouraged during the final, bloody push that ended Sri Lanka’s quarter-century of civil war with the Tamil Tigers in 2009.
Thanks to agreements between the rebels and the government that Nelson Mandela and South African Vice President Jacob Zuma helped broker, Burundi can now either turn decisively away from civil strife, or risk a return to the machete politics that have mauled Africa's Great Lakes region for a decade.
Since its independence from Belgium in 1962, Burundi has suffered five episodes of what amounts to the same civil war.
Presidential assassinations do not necessarily lead to civil wars, but in Burundi, a large-scale massacre of Tutsi civilians by Hutu immediately followed the coup attempt.
The danger is that applying this approach rigorously will invariably result in a bloated civil service and army.
This demands less outright combat and more effective peacekeeping, through strategic decision-making, intelligence gathering, and civil engagement.
And the day’s plutocrats are seen as having sway over elected politicians and civil servants.
Still, Latin American civil society is coming together to push back against political indifference and the culture of impunity.
The emergence of an embryonic “world civil society” heightens demand for universal and charismatic figures, holding out the hope of global accountability, but also carrying populist overtones.
Lasting solutions will require partnerships between government, business, and civil society, which can be hard to negotiate and manage, since these different sectors of society often have little or no experience in dealing with each other and may mistrust each other considerably.
Water ministries are typically staffed with engineers and generalist civil servants.
Because of this political failure, many fear that Serbia faces civil war.
After all, any crisis creates new opportunities (for example, the Syrian civil war has prompted important action on chemical weapons).
But even in countries where there is some degree of political pluralism and an absence of civil strife or domestic armed conflict – such as Lebanon and Tunisia, and potentially the Palestinian Authority and Algeria – incremental approaches can achieve only partial success.
But they reflect the respect she commanded, and her commitment to conducting herself in a civil manner even when dealing with her opponents.
The power to tax, for example, is often used more to employ civil servants or workers in favored companies than to provide services the people want.
Iran lacked an independent judiciary, basic press freedoms, and civil society organizations.
His was a conception of democracy based on a strong civil society and morality.
Civil society groups must now assert themselves.
Avoiding coercion, premature elections, and hypocritical rhetoric should not preclude a patient policy that relies on economic assistance, behind-the-scenes diplomacy, and multilateral approaches to aid the development of civil society, the rule of law, and well-managed elections.
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