Peace, Justice and the Ultimate Crime

The issue of gender equality has achieved, on a worldwide scale, very much the same position as the issues of slavery and torture. That is to say, while it is now generally accepted around the globe that gender equality is a burning issue that must be dealt with and while, in general, the inequality of women, abuse of women’s rights and gender violence are all considered to be throwbacks to barbarism and aberrations in modern society, the fact is that there is still a very long way to go in creating a world in which men and women are, indeed, on an equal footing. The fact of the matter today is that, while the world has undoubtedly made serious advancements toward gender equality, and while the empowerment of women has grown within the context of year 2000 global Millennium Development Goals (including increased equal access to primary education between girls and boys), the surface has barely been scratched, and women and girls continue to suffer discrimination and violence in...

To read Parts I, II and III, please visit the following links: http://vivoonwarpeaceandjustice.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/the-rise-of-nationalist-populism.html http://vivoonwarpeaceandjustice.blogspot.com.ar/2016/08/the-rise-of-populist-nationalism-part.html http://vivoonwarpeaceandjustice.blogspot.com.ar/2016/09/the-rise-of-populist-nationalism-part.html Although an undercurrent of populist nationalism has been surging toward the surface since the turn of the millennium, it is no coincidence that it has become a fully-fledged international trend in the years since the 2008 world financial crisis, the catalyst for which was the US mortgage debacle and the ensuing stock market crash that it triggered. Nor is right-wing populist nationalism the only manifestation of rage and frustration on the part of common citizens at what they perceive as a broken system and as a worldwide “game”—led by the West—in which the deck is definitively stacked against them. Trumpism in the US, Nigel...