Social unrest inherent in democracy and the rule of law

(c) Social unrest inherent in democracy and the rule of law

Social ills such as unemployment, criminality, immorality and drug abuse help to exacerbate this social unrest.

This might be wishful thinking, however. And, even if social unrest does erupt, repression might succeed again.

However, performance seems to have been adversely affected by the social unrest which has beset the country.

Many industrialized countries, especially in Western Europe, were facing difficult economic conditions and some were experiencing unprecedented social unrest.

So any accusations of corruption or backdoor dealings between authorities or business would arouse a social outcry or even unrest.

Wherever there is social unrest in Indonesia, we bring justice and foster dialogue and reconciliation, as we did in Aceh.

Major social unrest cannot be ruled out. The one certainty is that the next three decades will not mirror the last three.

I think that there will not be a referendum this year, unless the social unrest and protests grow much more, he told FNL.

However, violations of the Constitution and of civil service rules and regulations sparked off fresh political instability, the result of social, military and political unrest.

The book is called Blessed Unrest.

I was affected by this communal unrest.

Some will hold the EU and the measures imposed by Brussels responsible for the outbreaks of social unrest. In such a situation, the crisis will have triggered a social rather than an economic domino effect, which is no less worrisome.

With HIV AIDS adding to this bleak picture (5 per cent of the population is infected), it is not surprising that Haiti lives in a climate of recurrent social unrest.

Moreover, while Kokborok speakers want to use Latin script to facilitate the transition to higher education, the Bengali script predominates in the region, which has led to protests and social unrest.

Expanding the service sector, where productivity is low, will hold back aggregate output. And if growth decelerates further the annual rate has already dropped from 10 to 7.5 social unrest may increase.

Lastly, his delegation urged the international community to address the political unrest and social tensions that continued to produce movements of refugees and internally displaced persons in most parts of the world.

This settlement agreement would end two months of unrest in Tesla.

While continuing to face a difficult financial situation, the Government was nevertheless able to pay salaries up to December 2004, in time for the end of year festivities, thereby dissipating the potential for social unrest.

Fine tune the message so as to also address emerging fields of interest and potential consequences that go beyond traditional focus fields (such as poverty and hunger, social unrest, political instability, conflict or mass migrations).

And for the first time, I was affected by this communal unrest.

More importantly, according to the UN and the World Bank, the social impact of the global economic crisis continues to be felt in terms of rising hunger, unemployment, and social unrest. The combination of rising food and fuel prices and the financial and economic crisis has reduced poor families purchasing power, access to social services, and employment opportunities.

Rather, political unrest should be seen partly as endogenous to the economic system.

Inevitably, there were eruptions of social unrest. Recall the Luddites, who responded to the early nineteenth century mechanization of the textile industry by smashing the new technology, and the Swing Riots, in which workers destroyed threshing machines.

As funding problems recur in the recession hit economies, governments may resist bailing in and the associated losses. Civil unrest and political destabilization could erupt into financial and social crises that ultimately threaten the monetary union s survival.

Long struggling European citizens especially the long term unemployed have yet to gain any sustained benefit from the austerity measures to which they have been subjected. And the result is not just general disappointment and worrisome social unrest.

These countries, once models of economic hope and democratic promise in Latin America, have become examples of democracies without legitimacy or credibility. Although they have made significant social progress in recent years, they have become centers of popular unrest.

Thus, legal logic and precision are challenged by assuming that one could propose peacebuilding operations for situations that are not contemplated or even defined by international law, such as pre conflict situations, destabilizing social unrest and the breakdown of society.

Moreover, the social unrest that often accompanies economic strife could cause countries to fragment into smaller units that fight one another over values or resources. To some extent, this is already occurring, with Iraq and Syria splintering into sectarian or tribal units.

Nuclear power offers the possibility of cheap, plentiful electricity, which will contribute to social and political stability. Iranian experts argue that, in considering the trade off between internal unrest and external sanctions, the Iranian government must choose between domestic security and international security.

Since 2004, however, the downward trend has halted and slight increases in coca cultivation have taken place, mainly in Bolivia and Peru, as a result, in part, of the political upheaval in Bolivia as well as the social unrest in both countries.

But, as in the 1970 s, the success of Nigerian diplomacy will depend on the government s ability to win legitimacy at home. That will require repairing and improving damaged infrastructure, generating economic prosperity, running efficient social services, and taming the unrest in the delta region.

What remains to be seen is how the end will come. And, whether it comes in the form of a capital strike by foreign bondholders, or of domestic labor strikes and wider social and political unrest, France s leaders remain entirely unprepared for the inevitable.

Special attention should be paid to ensure that all laws, acts and policies in this regard reflect the right to non discrimination on any basis and are not carried out in a way that fosters racism, xenophobia, religious intolerance, or any undue social unrest.

Political unrest and social tensions nevertheless continued to prevail in some regions of Africa, producing movements of refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), mainly in West Africa (Côte d'Ivoire, Togo), the Great Lakes region (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic) and the Sudan.

It trusted that their efforts would bring peace to a country which had suffered unrest for too long.

It was stressed that expressions like situations of destabilizing civil unrest or societal breakdown would themselves require definition.

Dramatic poverty conditions were recognized as the main root cause of conflict and political unrest in the country.

The Minister of Health noted that civil unrest had led to a very fragile health system in the departments.

They may however be challenged by multiple outbreaks of widespread civil unrest, resulting from a worsening socio economic situation.

In democracies, repeated elections lead to short term policy choices. In autocracies like China and Russia, leaders resist the radical reforms that would reduce the power of entrenched lobbies and interests, thereby fueling social unrest as resentment against corruption and rent seeking boils over into protest.

China s export led economic model has reached its limits, and the transition to domestic led growth is intensifying internal frictions. Managing unrest through repression is more difficult than in the past, as rapid urbanization, economic reform, and social change roils a country of 1.3 billion people.

The closest thing, in some ways, to the China Model is nineteenth century Germany, with its industrial strength, its cultivated but politically neutered middle class, and its tendency toward aggressive nationalism. Nationalism became lethal when the economy crashed, and social unrest threatened to upset the political order.

Where do the European Union, the eurozone, and the EU s highly indebted countries go from here? Will Europe be able to roll back its welfare states biggest excesses without economic distress and social unrest toppling governments and, in the peripheral countries, undermining already tenuous agreements with creditors?