LAW, PEACE AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
Keywords:
Law, Peace, Sustainable Peace, Socio-economic Development, War, ConflictsAbstract
Against the background of cataclysm to humans and lethality to property, rooted in wars and armed-conflicts, at national, regional and global levels and the truism that, without law and peace, no nation can, possibly, stabilise or prosper, this paper interrogates the interconnectivity and convergence of law and peace and their inevitability in ensuring sustainable socio-economic development. The paper finds that since no individual, institution, community, society, or nation can possibly be an island, interrelationships are inevitable because individuals, institutions, communities, societies, and nations are, naturally, duty-bound to interrelate and that this occasionally brews disputes arising from conflicting interests. The paper further finds that wars and conflicts interrupt economies, displace communities, and worsen poverty and inequality and that law is a potent instrument for attaining peace through the mechanism of conflict prevention (proactiveness) or resolution (reactiveness) as a way of ensuring sustainable socio-economic stability and prosperity. It recommends increased use of law, especially alternative dispute resolution models, for the purpose of ensuring national, regional, and global peace. Furthermore, while acknowledging that global and regional institutions are doing their best to ensure peace worldwide. It advocates that more efforts of these institutions are required to guarantee relative peace that is necessary for continuing national, regional, and global socio-economic stability and progress.
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