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Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration

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Peace and security explore key elements of human life, where peace (Boulding in Cultures of Peace. Syracuse University Press, New York, 2000), future, nature, spirituality (King in The Autobiography by Martin Luther King. Warner Books, New York, 1998) and well-being link up with a comprehensive way of nonviolent conflict resolution (Gandhi in Ghandi, An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. Beacon Press, Boston, 1993; Ameglio in Resolución noviolenta de conflictos en sociedades indígenas y minorías, 2004).

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Notes

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    Some ideas are taken from Úrsula Oswald Spring’s book on International Security, Peace, Development and Environment, Encyclopaedia on Life Support System, Vol. 39, Oxford, EOLSS, 2007.

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    Other destabilisation processes were induced in Nigeria, Congo, Venezuela, Sudan, Yemen, Syria, and previously in Angola, Indonesia, Timor, etc. They are expressions and control mechanisms of former colonial and superpowers whose behaviour exhibits their intention to appropriate cheap, often scarce resources.

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    This confrontation among Arabs and black Africans has historical roots of more than 1,000 years, when Arabs, especially Tuareg, sold black Africans to America. The trade of slavery continued and in Mauritania slave trade was not criminalised until 2007.

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    The Operation or Plan Cóndor (the eagle of the Andes) integrated the military regimes in South America (Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay and Bolivia) under the leadership of the US (CIA and DIA). Their goals were to eliminate the opposition to their military regimes and the neoliberal economic model imposed on society. Plan Cóndor targeted especially left-wing young people in order to limit their opposition, which was often influenced by the Cuban Revolution, but also to control the secret services of France in the 1970s (Salguero 2011).

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Oswald Spring, Ú. (2020). On Peace and Security. In: Earth at Risk in the 21st Century: Rethinking Peace, Environment, Gender, and Human, Water, Health, Food, Energy Security, and Migration . Pioneers in Arts, Humanities, Science, Engineering, Practice, vol 18. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38569-9_2

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