Journal article
Armed Conflict Versus Global Sustainable Development as Functions of Social Change
Journal of Futures Studies, Vol.19(4), pp.51-72
2015
Abstract
This paper offers a futures analysis of armed conflicts and its detrimental impact on the three pillars of sustainable development - economic, social and environmental. It draws on macrohistory to contextualize war along its socio-political and psychological drivers and explores alternative options for conflict resolution. The macrohistory perspective offers an alternative view of armed conflict, as avehicle of social change, due to its disruptive action on stagnating social conditions. War, as a feature of the dominator society, is a barrier to sustainable development. Hence, to enable global sustainable futures, the Causal Layered Analysis suggests plausible routes towards a partnership society.
Details
- Title
- Armed Conflict Versus Global Sustainable Development as Functions of Social Change
- Authors
- Marta Botta (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast - Faculty of Arts and BusinessAliasghar Abbasi (Author) - Amirkabir University of Technology, Iran
- Publication details
- Journal of Futures Studies, Vol.19(4), pp.51-72
- Publisher
- Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University
- Date published
- 2015
- ISSN
- 1027-6084
- Copyright note
- Copyright © 2015 Graduate Institute of Futures Studies, Tamkang University. Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Social Sciences - Legacy; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; Sustainability Research Cluster
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99449488602621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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