The world is the arena of permanent confrontation among individuals and communities. They are pushed toward confrontation by the human beings inner nature and by their contradictory interests. Permanent struggle for money, social position, influence, resources, and territories has different forms of manifestation, from a banal quarrel to fight for survival within the natural jungle as well as to urban jungle and armed conflict. Perpetual peace we dream at is more and more a utopian objective unless we could accept that “Wars no longer begin or end, they are assumed to be the natural continuous state of things”.
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