3014. Real and fake security, and the United Nations
Invited abstract in session MC-20: Ethics and OR, societal complexity and public service, stream OR and Ethics.
Monday, 12:30-14:00Room: 45 (building: 116)
Authors (first author is the speaker)
| 1. | Cathal MacSwiney Brugha
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| Centre for Business Analytics, University College Dublin |
Abstract
Real security protects and civilises, unites and reconciles, gives security. Fake security subjects and colonises, divides and rules, takes ‘securities’. One example of fake security is where Israel seeks to secure its future by taking and subjecting two properties for itself, the Gaza Marine Gas Field, and the valuable trading route, from Asia to the Red Sea to the Mediterranean. In doing so, they are endangering the security of 2.4 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, 113 million Egyptians nearby, another 300 million people in the Middle East, and the security of future generations of Israelis. Another example is where, to secure for itself the valuable agricultural land of Ukraine, Russia is destroying the security of 37 million Ukrainian people, and the food security of millions in Africa, that are short of food. The United Nations Organisation could bring real security. A United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR) could join the United Nations Relief and Works Agency in the Near East (UNRWA), and bring security to the Gaza Strip, and then to Ukraine. Further, the 2 trillion (tn) dollars wasted on colonisers’ military budgets could then be spent by UNPROFOR on further increasing global security, by reducing international crime: maritime 0.2 tn, cybercrime 6 tn, and organised crime 10 tn. Then to deal with global climate change. Only real climate security projects and actions provide any prospect of protecting future generations from global climate insecurity.
Keywords
- Ethics
- Decision Analysis
- Complex Societal Problems
Status: accepted
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