How has the nature of peace and conflict changed in the current phase of globalisation ignou
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Nope.
There never was, there never will be.
“Peace” is the absence of wars, but “war” is not the only problem of the Middle East. Wars in the Middle East usually start between dictators (and Israel). Now you see those dictatorships falling apart and most of it is replaced by tribalist anarchy. The Arabs are not a single community, but thousands of small groups, divided in region, culture, clan and religious affiliations.
Why in Syria there are 1000+ groups fighting? Why in Palestine and Lebanon every political party has its own paramilitary force?
Loyalty is one of the strongest and weakest values in the Arab World. They can’t form a single body, to whom everyone is loyal, there will always be people seeking local control.
An example for this is the clan-disputes in Israel. In the Israeli-Arab villages, most of the communities are separated to different clans (“Hamula” in Arabic), and when there are local elections, the member of the largest clan will always win and neglect the others. Honour is a major factor here. There is rivalry between the clans in many aspects of life and it is almost every week that there is inter-clan violance. In the Bedouin community it is even worse, as they are not only members of a large family, but members of tribes, who have more obligations to their fellows, and when two tribes are having a conflict, it tends to be brutal.
Only last year there were incidents of clashes between Arab clans in two villages in Israel that resulted in dozens of injuries and even deaths. One incident included a Nice-style attack on members of the other clan.
When Clans are not fighting each other (Which is usually the case, I hope I didn’t make you think that there is constant violence between all clans all the time), they are still separated. One thing I noticed is that despite the fact Arabs are less in number than Jews, they have more political parties. In the Israeli parliament the Arabs represent only ~10% of the seats, but 33% of the political parties (they are now in a single list but can’t agree on anything). The Palestinians and Israeli-Arabs have many more news websites, each concerning a local area; they hardly have any general news sites.
In Syria, as mentioned before, the situation is even worse. Where you have thousands of millitant groups, fighting for control and despite the fact most of them are allied into one group, inter-alliance fights occur all the time. The same happens in Iraq as well.
The only way to preserve order in the Middle Eastern Arab countries (North Africa is a different topic) is through dictatorships and no one wants dictatorships.
It will take more than at least 200 years for the Middle East to change.