http://riidblog.org/Recent content in Basilio G. Monteiro PhD on Rielo Institute for Integral DevelopmentHugo -- gohugo.ioenMon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/archives/30-03-2025/Mon, 31 Mar 2025 00:00:00 +0000http://riidblog.org/archives/30-03-2025/Basilio G. Monteiro PhD<p><a href="http://riidblog.org/img/peace.png"><img src="http://riidblog.org/img/peace.png" alt="peace"></a></p> <p>Since World War II multi-lateral international relations emanated from political science dominated the peacebuilding efforts. Eighty years later it is proven to be an unmanageable patchwork in search for a solution.</p> <p>The grand idea of globalization and the aspirational global peace is facing an increasingly fragmented world at war with each other, either an economic war or an actual one with sophisticated and mutually destructive weapons. The forces for conflict resolution, reconciliation and peacebuilding are feeling a gut punch and the wind taken away from them in the prevailing and evolving geo-political realities. The forces of warmongering have the global megaphone.</p>