International Conflict and its Resolution

Currently, the globe faces complex international conflicts, ranging from domestic disputes to cross-border disputes. There is terrible human and moral costs tenant to these conflicts, prompting the urge to solve the disputes (Autesserre, 2014). Lethal violence as a means to address such conflict is combative and often results into loss of human life, degradation of human dignity loss of property. Therefore, the paper will focus on the proper ethical and non-violent mechanisms of solving the conflicts.

The globe must invest in peacemaking institutions as means and ways of pursuing justice.  Often the institutions help in managing conflicts by substituting violence and war as mechanisms of seeking truth and addressing disputes with a peaceful and effective formula of treating the intolerance. Through the global organizations like the United Nations and the regional organizations like the European Union, the institutions should involve in inventing new mechanisms for preserving peace, protecting fundamental human rights, reserve the environment, enhance integral human development and to avoid police conflicts.

The Church is a vital player in the realization of global peace by inculcating peaceable virtues in the communities. Undeniably, peacemaking is only realizable and a subject of policy if it first a question of the heart. Without repentance and forgiveness, peace is untenable. Therefore, in the course of contemporary culture violence and to curb the rising contempt for human life, the Church should foster societies where peaceable virtues can be planted and be cherished. The church must enlighten the communities to bank their trust in God and not on their courage and compassion that often ignite them to action. Additionally, the humility and kindness that the church teaches will help the global community to learn to put the interest of other first before their interests.

In place of the unethical lethal violence as a means of solving the international conflict, the global society should build structures of solidarity. Notably, the alienation of freedom, opportunity, hope, and truth often result in the growth of conflict (Princen, 2014). Therefore, the world the international organizations should reformulate its policies and programs to bridge the gap between the desperately poor and the extremely wealthy. Incontrovertibly, sustainable development, targeted aid and the economic empowerment of the poor and support for human rights and democracy are significant ingredients of peace.

As opposed to the lethal violence as possible means of international conflict resolution, the global community can employ nonviolence mechanisms such peaceful disobedience, dialogue, negotiations, protests and strikes to air their grievances (Ví¤yrynen, 2018). These peaceful mechanisms will help to repel apparent injustice and public evil through ways other than violence. Notably, nonviolence formula proved its effectiveness in the Eastern Europe and the Philippines where dramatic political transitions happened through the nonviolent means even against totalitarian regimes. Therefore, the global community is challenged to consider organized, active, passive ways of solving international conflicts.

However, there are certain instances where war is justified but with the consideration of collection of ethical reflection on the justifiable use of force. In a scenario where war is the option to restoring sanity, clarity on when and the limits of power explained, to ensure restraint in the potential damage by the military forces in the course of the war (Princen, 2014). Therefore, the just use of war stems from the strong theory against the use of force and then establishes the conditions upon which the approach can be suspended to preserve the peace that protects human dignity and human life.

In a nutshell, the world continually faces international conflicts that pose a danger to humanity. The resolution of the disputes should promote human dignity and life. Therefore, the world should pursue the ethically nonviolent mechanisms of solving the conflict as opposed to the violent ways. However, in scenarios where war is justified, proper procedures should be followed.

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