Patriarchy as a Major Impediment to World Peace Today
By Adis Duderija, New Age Islam
27 February, 2014
Discussions on peace
are central to humanity since they force us to deal with some
fundamental issues regarding our human existence, its purpose and
nature.
As we all know
world-peace is much more than just the state of ‘absence of war ‘. The
voluminous literature of ‘just peace’ and ‘just war’ testifies to this
fact well. My purpose is not to engage with this literature directly but
to offer some reflections on what I consider to be the major impediment
to world peace today.
Today, we live in an
incredibly interconnected world that one or two generations ago was
simply unimaginable. Things we do and choices we make on a daily basis
often can have significant impact, both positive and negative, on people
who live on different continents, who come from different religious,
cultural, ethnic or racial backgrounds and whom we will never meet in
person. How our actions impact upon others, often, are not always easy
to discern or to understand. Nevertheless, given our state of
interconnectedness, it becomes ethically incumbent upon us to try our
utmost to understand how our place in the world and things that we do
(or not do) impact upon others no matter where they live or what their
secondary identities are. By secondary I mean those that are distinct to
us and fall outside of our commonly shared humanity.
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