When we released my latest book, El crimen de la guerra (soon to be published in English as War Is a Crime against Humanity ) toward the end of last year, it would have been hard to predict the current situation, in which the world, practically overnight, has returned to a state not unlike that endured throughout the post-World War II years of the Cold War, which only ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Clearly, the world has not lived in a state of blissful peace since that time. Indeed, there are currently more than thirty armed conflicts being waged worldwide, with the worst of them—such as the war in Syria—claiming tens of thousands of lives and leaving millions homeless and displaced. But it is, nevertheless, the first time since the end of the Cold War that East and West are once again in a divisive mood with Moscow and Western leaders flexing their rhetorical muscles and hovering on the brink of disputes that are potential powder kegs. Russian President Vladimir...
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Author Roberto Vivo comments on wars past and present, on the world’s great peacemakers and on the pathway to global peace. His basic philosophy: In a world where 9 out of every 10 victims of armed conflict are civilians, war is no longer a viable political alternative. Indeed, it is the ultimate crime against humanity. If rising generations are to have a future, the key will lie in world peace. War is the pathway to oblivion.