Libya's Controversy

            Peace can be seen as a project that it will never be completely achieved. This is because people have different perspectives for the meaning of peace.  Several elements could prevent that the idea of peace could never be reached, such as a simple thing like difference of religion, different points of view or rivalry. In order to achieve peace in a community or in a nation, the people that form this group need to be in peace with them. Achieving peace is achieving perfection, and perfection will never be reach and in consequence it exist war and violence just like in Libya.

There is not a specific element that prevents that peace can be achieve in a certain group or community. Peace is an idea that is not reached at a hundred percent because several factors are intervening. This could be locally, nationally or internationally; the idea of peace is broken locally by the violation of the law, such as stealing or even killing. Nationally could be seen as a war inside a country that involves the citizens of a certain nation, and internationally could be seen as act of terrorism that involves different countries around the world, or it could be a problem in a certain country that later on involves other countries into the problem. These three factors that prevent that peace can be achieved can be demonstrated in Libya. Libya first started with the local problem in which it was based on the dissatisfaction of their governor Gadafi, peace was broken in this country since he started ruling because Gadafi was known because of the abuses to human rights and plans of terrorism just like Huston explains in her article titled War in Libya. Later on this problem transformed into an international problem in which The United States of America was involved and other countries too, such as France. This is an element that interrupted peace between countries, but this intervention was with the purpose of creating peace in an internationally way. Again we can observe how peace it is never reached in none of the three elements, locally, nationally and internationally. These three elements could start locally and later could turn into nationally and finally into an internationally problem; or it could start at any order, but at the end peace is always broken by human errors.

Peace is an idea of a perfect interaction between humans, but humans are imperfect. Therefore, peace it is not achieved as people wanted to. Peace is affected in a same magnitude by the three elements: locally, nationally and internationally. The only difference is that one involves more people, but at the end they all affect the meaning of peace in which is defined as “The absence of war or other hostilities” by William Green.

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