Any inkling of some semblance of peace in Syria following the bombastic “cessation of hostilities” announcements by the men in charge of US and Russian foreign relations last week was short-lived indeed. Granted, in his public pronouncement of an agreement reached more by the Syrian War’s external agents than by its direct belligerents, US Secretary of State John Kerry did everything he could to dissuade anybody of the idea that what was to be implemented was “a ceasefire”. He said that the parties involved were more comfortable with the more ballpark term of “cessation of hostilities”. Even that term, however, proved a total misnomer. It quickly became clear that last week’s Syrian “peace” charade was really a case of unhelpful superpower intervention in a conflict that has gone from a warranted popular uprising against a tyrannical four-decade old regime to being the latest proxy-war battlefield for the new cold war between Russia and the West and for the burgeoning rivalries am...
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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.