NEW DELHI(PTI): In the increasingly economically, interdependent global economy, the regional conflicts and insurgencies that countries face must be settled more through socioeconomic development policies than crushing them by guns.
“Governments across the world tend to resolve conflicts by military means” but a recent study by the center for global trade development shows that “economic factors could present a better alterative not only to case the regional crises but in helping uplift the economic development of the whole country.” ‘The study on “regional conflicts and economic development, ‘conducted in over 220 countries, shows that economic stagnation as the common root problem for the regional conflicts worldwide.
“The prominent regional cot flits in Mexico, UK, Spain, Ireland, Russia, India, Sri Lanka and Pakistan present a common Toot problem: Economic stagnation than any other factors like political ambitions of local leaders.”
Factors like “Religious beliefs, interference of alien nations, minority or ethnic complex, intellectual and sociopolitical is. Latinism and income inequality” are also not so relevant when compared to economic factors, it says.
The US based CGTD suggests decentralization in local and regional administrations, privatization of infrastructural entities and shifting of population groups as alterative solutions to this issue. Also, when large number of people are shifted to new areas, including the conflicting areas besides new business opportune ties and economic development, the communities can integrate more effectively in the national economy, the report says, Although most regional conflicts are prevalent in multiethnic and multi religious communities, CGTD analyses that in coming years, “new regional conflicts will also emerge in rather homogeneous societies of Africa, China, Russia, Tran, frag and many Arab nations due to income disparities and imbalanced development.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 11, 1994
