"What factors are affecting the global peace and how can we overcome the unrest prevailing the worldwide due to terrorism?"

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Peace, love, forbearance, loyalty, and sacrifice are the virtues people look for in others to maintain cordial
relations with each other, but as the nations are advancing towards the so-called perfection with the help of
cutting-edge technology, they are losing their reforming zeal to assimilate these virtues and their
sympathetic nature upon weakest nations. Strongest nations are marching ahead having all required
instruments with them, on the one hand, and weakest nations are depleting their resources either by fighting
among themselves or by blazing up a fierce fire of terrorism so as to create anarchy all over the world, on
the other hand. Despite paying attention to developing ways to bring peace all over the world, every
developed or developing nation is busy in buying high-tech missiles, nuclear weapons, artillery, and
ammunition. Is not it a contradiction to say that we need peace, on the one hand; on the other, empowering
our military, air, and naval forces and display our invincible power over others?
When you look upon the children of deteriorated regions, you will find that they have become so amoral,
impersonal, and disinterested, for in them no sensitivity is left. They have just witnessed destruction, one
after the other, at all times. Who is responsible for their devastated childhood, scattered dreams, and
unstable future? But we cannot fully blame developed nations for this mayhem because the lack of
education in such regions is giving rise to terrorism and radicalization, which is drawing this calamity
towards them. Then, what should be the solution to restrict such activities, which instigate terrorism and
radicalization in these regions? The crux of the problem, so to say, is in applying painstaking efforts by
developed, as well as developing nations, equally to combat with one of the grievous issues of the world,
not only of one nation or any particular nations.
Global Peace Index (GPI) detects all of the indicators, which affect the global peace and calibrate to
measure the number of incidents disturbing the global peace. However, the data, in its turn, can be utilized
to find which country/countries need the help most. GPI discovered that 2015 was the year when the world
was at the lowest point with its peace. The prominent reason to be at the lowest was the development of
violence in the Middle East and Africa (MENA). The battle between insurgents and the government in
addition to wiping off of the terrorism by nations such as the US, Russia, and France, in this region, have
increased the rate of violence compared to that of the previous years. On the other hand, GPI has also
discovered that the peace in other nations except for in the Middle East and Africa has consolidated slightly,
and is the positive outcome of the data at least.
If we analyze the Global Peace Index, we may find that the Japan, which encountered one of the biggest
annihilations of the century by facing two nuclear attacks, has managed to attain the 10th spot on the list of
peaceful countries. What has made them the most peaceful among other developed nations? The answer is
clear as a bell: Japan's spiritual, as well as scientific progress, has made them stronger than before. But
educating people of decaying nations is not sufficient because even the nation like Libya has the literacy
rate of 89.5%, which implies that baby steps are not going to be of any use. Two conflicting political parties
are unable to come to a mutual consent on their geographical area as well as political powers over the
country and have become major reasons for the decay of Libya, which have also given rise to the barbaric
terrorist group such as Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) on their land. The problem is quite as
complicated as it seems easy on this level. To all intents and purposes, it is one of the toughest and critical
problems to solve, but that does not mean there is no solution at all.
Political instability is also a secondary factor, primary in developed nations, which has been entailing part
of the global disturbed peace. As we see, the rate of terrorist attacks has been increased drastically in the

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developed nations as well. What is that, which is drawing these nations towards attracting these terrorist
attacks? The answer, maybe, lies in the political instability. We have seen the Brexit, immigration of
millions of refugees from war-hit zones to European countries, incapability to handle the rising number of
immigrants by the representatives of the government, and somewhat the recession; all this has led to the
political instability and disturbed the global peace thereby.
Political instability in Syria is one of the notorious examples we have been witnessing, and Syria's internal
problems are more complicated than that of Libya. Intervention in the borders of Libya by the US military
was feasible, for it was geographically and population-wise one-third of the Syria. Unlike Libya, it would
be too complicated to intervene in the internal affairs of the Syria by the US or any other governments.
Syrian Armed Forces have gained the backing of their one of the regional allies such as Iran and Hezbollah
in Lebanon, Asian giants such as the Russia and China have come forth in the support of Al-Assad led
Syrian Armed Forces, whereas NATO countries such as the US, France, and Turkey, in addition to Saudi
Arabia, are backing Istanbul-based Syrian National Council (SNC) and Free Syrian Army (FSA). To
recapitulate, it seems a moot question to find an answer with a panacea, but we need to come up with a
unanimous solution over the grievous activities happening in the region of the Middle East and Africa
(MENA).
According to the report of Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2015 from Institute for Economics and Peace
(IEP), top 10 nations in the list are Iraq, Afghanistan, Nigeria, Pakistan, Syria, India, Yemen, Somalia,
Libya, and Thailand. Apparently, conflicts between Sunni, Shia, Kurd, and Arab have made the situation
worse to control even by the intervention of any other nations like the US. On the other hand, different
terrorist groups have bolstered their roots in some of these countries and creating tremendous threat not
only to these countries but also to the entire world. Recent terror attacks in France, Belgium, Germany,
India, Florida (US), and Austria have shown that the heat of terrorism is not limited to the Middle East and
Africa (MENA) anymore. The effect of terrorism, so to say, is increasing and spreading worldwide just like
forests get engulfed in the rage of fire.
Is it plausible to think that fight will bring peace to us? There is the law of nature called Law of Attraction,
which explains that peace attracts peace. However, a few extremists in the name of religion indulge in
terrorist activities without knowing the real teaching of their own religion, for no religion preaches violence
and fanaticism. These extremists are puppets of those vicious mindsets who want to rule the world just for
the sake of their ideology to bring their single-handed dictatorship all over the world. Then what is the
solution to curb youth's involvement in terrorist groups? Firstly, the education. Secondly, cessation of
growing intolerance towards the particular religion, which has become a major reason for much of the
hatred of one nation towards another. Lastly, refrain greed for oil, because most of the superpower nations
like the US, apparently, have encroached the territories of oil-rich countries in the name of curbing terrorist
activities but the real motive was to get possession of oil wells in the region.

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