Marginalisation of the majority world

A complex interplay of discrimination, global poverty, inequality and deepening socio-economic divisions, together make for key elements of global insecurity. While overall global wealth has increased, the benefits of this economic growth have not been equally shared. The rich-poor divide is actually growing, with a very heavy concentration of growth in relatively few parts of the world, and poverty getting much worse in many other regions. The ‘majority world’ of Asia, Africa and Latin America feel the strongest effects of marginalisation as a result of global elites, concentrated in North America and Europe, striving to maintain political, cultural, economic and military global dominance.

How small arms and light weapons proliferation undermines security and development

Rachel Stohl, EJ Hodendoorn | Center for American Progress | March 2010

Issues:Global militarisation, Marginalisation

The proliferation of small arms and light weapons is an immediate security challenge to individuals, societies, and states around the world and an enormous hurdle to sustainable security and development.

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Posted on 25/03/10

New Report Highlights the Links between Poverty, Marginalisation and Terrorism

Lia Brynjar with Skjølberg Katja | Norwegian Defence Research Establishment | March 2010

Issue:Marginalisation

New Report Highlights the Links between Poverty, Marginalisation and Terrorism

A new report by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment providing a critical survey of the academic literature on the causes of terrorism  demonstrates the link between marginalisation and levels of political violence and terrorism.

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Posted on 18/03/10

Reimagining Development

Issue:Marginalisation

 A new initiative of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex brings together 34 research projects exploring whether crises in food, finance, fuel and climate -  and the way that people are responding to then - present us with an opportunity to rethink or 'reimagine' what international development means and how it needs to change.

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Posted on 11/03/10

The New Faces of Violence and War: Peace and Security Challenges

Issue:Marginalisation

In this recent article, Mariano Aguirre, Director of the Norwegian Peacebuilding Centre in Oslo, examines the complex and unpredictable challenges to peace and security.

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Global Security after the War on Terror

Paul Rogers | Oxford Research Group | November 2009

Issues:Climate change, Global militarisation, Marginalisation

This paper examines the context of the decision to go to war after 9/11 and the anticipated results. It goes on to analyse the actual  consequences and seeks to explain why they have been so radically different to original expectations by the United States and its closest coalition partners such as the UK. The paper then updates the analysis of the major global challenges that Oxford Research Group has previously discussed and the need for a new paradigm focused on sustainable security. It concludes by assessing how the experience of the eight years that have followed the 9/11 atrocities might make a change of paradigm more likely.

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Posted on 1/12/09

Multiple Futures Project - Navigating Towards 2030

Issues:Competition over resources, Global militarisation, Marginalisation

In March 2008, the Supreme Allied Commander Transformation called for NATO to consider "that different views of future worlds will strengthen our endeavor to develop a more rigorous and holistic appreciation for future security challenges and implications for the Alliance."

The result, a Multiple Futures Project (MFP), acknowledges that in a rapidly changing global security environment, the landscape we know may be very different in 2030. It puts forward four plausible worlds upon which structured dialogue on  risks and vulnerabilities can occur: Dark Side of Exclusivity, Deceptive Stability, Clash of Modernites, and New Power Politics.

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Posted on 23/11/09