The industry of the war

by Massimiliano Fanni Canelles

In a society where tribal wars, armed conflicts, civil wars, diseases, trafficking are common, the population reaches levels of poverty that, in the West, we cannot even imagine, and the plight of children in these areas is inextricably linked to this poverty.

Poverty is not a quantifiable with the measure of income, with the gross domestic product and the debt of the country. Poverty assessed mainly through the analysis of the elements “quality”, as life expectancy, the infant mortality and the literacy rates. A poverty maintained by the well-being of the western world now lives on the shoulders of the third.

When we tackle the issue of globalization we must ask ourselves how this should be done, but mainly we should analyze what all this speculation, perpetrated against the weakest, never to return anything, can be profitable in the long term. Today there are 225 individuals in the world who have one million dollars per head, equal to the sum of income of 2 billion and a half of the poorest people on the planet. These represent 47% of the world’s population and most of them are actors, artisans and fatalities, the largest industry of all time: that of war.

In the past age conflicts were predominantly driven by the attempt to govern in an autocratic country. With the increasing capabilities of commerce mankind has cultivated other reasons to be more “economic” as the control of the gold resources and the wealth. Today at a “global” is the motivation for pushing energy increased initiation of armed conflict.

In any case it is always a blend of power and wealth on the one hand and poverty and degradation that generates the other in the cynicism that allows you to trample anyone, including women and children. And if many steps have been made in establishing democratic governments, which allow you to amortize the push towards the individual pursuit of power, but much remains to be done in the relationship between capitalism and the international market, between capitalism and poor world.

As the principle of development cooperation should be imposed, it would be appropriate to first to give up the idea of an end in itself, which should and must necessarily give way to future plans that will enable the poor to create economic and social development ” from below “, by itself, sustain itself with micro-projects. To achieve this it is necessary that the governments, the Ong and all stakeholders involved in social realize, how the only way, the only picklock able to break the vicious circle of poverty, is to defend the right to education and vocational training.

Will be necessary to liberalize the international market, is that of raw materials, and energy. This section would avoid the creation of engaging in control of deposits and their way of the distribution. One aspect that clearly hampered by the presence of many “signs”, conflicts of interest by local and international, from political and religious manipulation and not least by the interests of the military.

But if it is still such a utopian conversion you should at least require the signatory States of the application card and conventions for the protection of human rights. We have a moral duty to return the children to their rights. Not those rights imposed to the adult but, listening carefully, those expressed by the children themselves, so that no longer speak of “children’s culture” but a “culture of childhood.”

Translated by Martina Delser

Massimiliano Fanni Canelles

Viceprimario al reparto di Accettazione ed Emergenza dell'Ospedale ¨Franz Tappeiner¨di Merano nella Südtiroler Sanitätsbetrieb – Azienda sanitaria dell'Alto Adige – da giugno 2019. Attualmente in prima linea nella gestione clinica e nell'organizzazione per l'emergenza Coronavirus. In particolare responsabile del reparto di infettivi e semi – intensiva del Pronto Soccorso dell'ospedale di Merano. 

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