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Race, Gender, Illness and cold War
Academic, administrative, and commercial interests were involved in different combinations in colonial science as practiced within British, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Belgian, and American frameworks. In the period preceding the Second World War, similar agencies and policy instruments were established in the major countries. ...
During the Cold War period, these internal problems were over-shadowed by the larger global confrontation of the super powers and their proxy conflicts between and within nations. ... Internal and regional crises were addressed, contained, or covered up through this bi-polar control mechanism of the Cold War global order.
With the end of the Cold War, and the strategic withdrawal of the major powers, crises are now being perceived in their proper national and regional contexts. ...
As a symptom of the structural problems that generate conflict, displacement is a national challenge that ultimately calls for creating an environment where all citizens feel a sense of belonging on equal footing, where their human rights and fundamental liberties are respected without discrimination on the grounds of race, national origin, ethnicity, religion, culture, gender, among other grounds, where the state will respond effectively to their needs for protection and humanitarian assistance, and where, in the end, they are guaranteed lasting solutions to return to their homes, or be resettled and assisted, through for example income generating projects, to resume self-reliant and integrated development.
During the Cold War, ideology and the world scene played a major role. ... What were unusual with the Cold War were the extent and intensity, and the nuclear weapons threatening presence. A great deal of the super powers gross national product was utilized in the race, and both sides built its military alert measures around nuclear physics arms programmes. ... The Cold Wars focusing on nuclear arms and development of nuclear physic technology has also led to the spreading of nuclear arms to other nations than the two super powers
The Cold War has forced tremendous changes in technology. ...
During the Cold War, the world experienced a solid economical surge. ... The major costs with the arms race contributed to the Soviet Unions breakdown. ...
The arms race, the Cold War of espionage, and the nuclear industry with its no fault insurance policies are a deadly game, perhaps a cultural death wish, based in paranoia. ...
We play a game of one-upmanship in the arms race and in the limited war of espionage, marked by covert hostilities, based in a need for secrecy and security. ... And the opposition escalates creating a weapons race that ever brings us closer to disaster. ... intervene in Lebanon, setting up another potential escalation to a third world war. ... People must have their consciousness raised beyond that of mere ideologies, technical solutions, and political platitudes to see that a war economy is the most insidious form of oppression.
It will take people of quiet courage and integrity to intelligently oppose the war machine. ... We have already broken many taboos in accepting ourselves, so it should be easy to break others and oppose war, nuclear threat, minority persecution.
Approximate Word count = 2445
Approximate Pages = 9.8
(250 words per page double spaced)
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