Transcript Pres_MAKERERE_042015x - College of Humanities and Social

Public Dialogue
‘Sharing Experience From Afghanistan’
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RELIGION, INSURGENCY, TERRORISM, and
NEW WORLD ORDER
• BASED ON MY ORIGIN, BACKGROUND, EXPERIENCE &
CAREER, EDUCATION✰
• What I have to say “matters”.
RECENT ACTS OF VIOLENT EXTRIMISM
• Al Qaeda, Taliban, ISIS, other splinter groups
• Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan,
etc.
• Assassination of the leading Justice Officer
• RAISING CONCERNS IN UGANDA✰
• RAISING FEAR IN NEIGBORING COUNTRIES
• RAISING CONCERNS IN THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY
“COUNTERING VIOLENT EXTREMISMIS IS NOT
JUST A MATTER OF MILITARY AFFAIRS!”
– PEACE & CONFLICT RESOLUTION,
– NEGOTIATIONS,
– COMMUNICATION, DIALOGUE, EDUCATION
…are as much as important as military actions.
Procedures
• Share thoughts, ideas, and experience
• Buzz Words
• Open Dialogue
– Raise the level of consciousness to connect people to
ideas, and people to people.
– Build a sense of aspiration, understanding and hope to
devoting more resources to our efforts…
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Afghanistan
– Landlocked Country in Central Asia
• Bordered to Pakistan, Iran, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan,
Tajikistan, and China
• 33 Million Population
• 14 Ethnic Groups
– Pashtuns (over 50%) ✰ , Tajik (23%), Uzbek (9%), Turkmen
(8%), others
• 43 Provinces
• 68% under age of 25 (Uganda ¾ are below 30 years)
History
1979 Invasion
– 1 Million died
– 6 Million refugees
1989 Withdraw of Russian
89-94 Civil War
1994 Taliban
– 28000 Pakistanis
– Financed Saudi Arabia
Taliban & Al Qaeda
• Osama Bin Laden & Al Zawahiri hosted by the
Taliban in Afghanistan
• Bin Laden enter in political Marriage with
Mohammed Mullah Omar (Tribal Elder) ✰
• Send Arabs to Afghanistan
Karzai Government
• 2001 NATO, ISAF, and Northern Alliance,
Afghan Troops
• Build new government with democratic
structures
• RETURN OF REFUGEES
• AGO✰
• Career at the MoFA
Thesis:
“We’ve got to devote more resources to the
efforts against the “violent extremism,” we don’t
just mean the terrorists who are killing innocent
people. We also mean the ideologies, the
infrastructure of extremists --the propagandists,
the recruiters, the funders who radicalize and
recruit or incite people to violence.”
• THROUGH DIALOGUES, build on:
– Character and Values, Commitment, Optimism &
Hope, Respect to Each Other
– Outreach to the national and international
communities, SME’s, Scholars, Muslims, and
– Engage with Partners,
– Raise Awareness
– Understand & Act
» …then, WE emerge stronger.
Young Generation
• Era of technology, .com Generation
• Responsible to offer Support
– Propaganda videos, online magazines, social
media, terror twitter accounts, etc.
– Young people are targeted online in cyberspace
– We are the one who are connected and connect!
In short!
We must focus on prevention through
education and dialogue -- preventing groups
from radicalizing, recruiting or inspiring others
to violence in the first place.
I suggest we concentrate our efforts in several
areas as follows:
Religion: Islam
• Clarify the twisted Ideologies:
“Issue: As a Muslim you 100% accept the faultless word of
God!”
– They say they are religions leaders
– Holy warriors in defense of ISLAM (JIHAD) ✰
– Propagate West together with its allies are at war
with Islam.
• FBI shows that a very small percentage of terrorist
attacks are carried out by Muslims.
• Terrorism is NOT religious driven!
Jihād
• Jihad = term referring to a religious duty of Muslims. In
Arabic, the word Jihād means "struggle" or
"resisting”.
• It can refer to internal (body, mind, and soul) as well as
external efforts to be a good Muslims or believer, as
well as working to inform people about the faith of
Islam. ✰
• Islam also allows the use of force, but there are strict
rules of engagement. Innocents - such as women,
children, or invalids - must never be harmed, and any
peaceful overtures from the enemy must be accepted.
• Suicide is prohibited in Islam ✰
• No Religion is responsible for Terrorism
• Religious leaders and scholars preaches that
Islam calls for justice and peace, and
tolerance and respect towards others.
• “Whoever kills an innocent, it is as if he has
killed all mankind.”
Misinterpretation demands Dialogues:
• Muslim world has suffered historical grievances
• Ills in the Middle East flow from history of
colonialism and conspiracy “Action=Reaction”
• Islam is incompātible with modernity and tolerance
• Religion and Culture is intoxicated with Western
values✰
• New World Order✰
Experience from Afghanistan
• Similar target pattern in Afghanistan, Middle
East, North Africa:
– Young people
– No educations
– No jobs
– No opportunities✰
• They are more vulnerable to conspiracy theories, and
radical ideas
• They have nothing to weigh
• Extremists offer Salaries
• Social Services
– School, Health, Marriages
• Fight Injustice, and Corruption
WE must offer something better!
However:
– Employment, education, and economic opportunities
don’t necessarily keep would-be terrorists from taking
up arms.
– “Terrorism is not just job-seeking by another name.
It’s driven by deep-seated problems and personal
frustrations in that society or government.”
• HISTORY, NEW WORLD ORDER CONSPIRACY
– There are millions of young people living in poor and
violent countries. A very small percentage of them
actually join an armed movement.
– Poverty alone does not cause a person to become a
terrorist, any more than poverty alone causes
somebody to become a criminal.
Vacuums provide grounds for Extremism
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Security
Educational
Religious and Moral
Governmental Performance
Injustice
Adolf Hitler, Mussolini, Mao, Stalin, raise to power in a
political and philosophical vacuum
Ideas
• Invest in the education and skills and job training
that our extraordinary young people need
• Countries will not be truly successful if parts of
their populations are denied opportunity.
• Continuing Dialogues and forge new partnerships in
entrepreneurship and innovation, and science and
technology, so young people from Central Africa can
start new businesses and create more prosperity.
• When governments oppress their people, deny human rights,
or marginalize ethnic and religious groups, or favor certain
religious groups over others, it sows the seeds of extremism
and violence.
• Nobody should be profiled or put under a cloud of suspicion
simply because of their faith.
• Terrorist groups claim that change can only come through
violence. And if peaceful change is impossible, that plays into
extremist propaganda.
• Institutions that uphold the rule of law and apply justice
equally. Security forces and Police that respect human rights
and treat people with dignity.
Different Components
• Military Component
• Peace and Conflict Resolutions/Dialogues
– High Peace Council Afghanistan
– New Afghan Government follow up
• Financial Terrorism Combat
• Assistance Program to Victims of Terrorists
NEW WORLD ORDER
• Conspiracies
• Dramatic change in world political and
economic thought and the balance of power.
• Eastern powers emerge as key players in this
world
• Conflicts over land, water and food
• "massive shift of wealth" to China, Russia,
India, Brazil and South Africa
• Evolutionary Leadership Theory:
– Leading and following are adaptive behavioral
strategies
– solve social coordination problems in groups
(e.g. moving to new areas, hunting or conflicts with
other groups)
Global Governance
New collective efforts to identify, understand, or
address worldwide problems that go beyond the
capacity of individual nation-states to solve.
Global Financial Crisis, Global Warming and Climate
Change, Poverty, World Hunger, World Trade,
Nuclear Conflict, Global Terror, Security, . . . but
also, Development, Refugees, and Population, etc.
“In a One World with international affairs and global
issues, it is likely that a New World Order - a paradigm
shift - under global governance & international
management is most likely to come.
Operating Organizations: World Bank, USAID, IMF, United
Nations, etc.
“The only question is whether world government will be
achieved by conquest or consent.”
Personal Thoughts
• Capitalism has had always a far reaching aim.
• Created a World System of financial control in
private hands.
• And it controls politics and countries and the
Worlds Economy.
Thank you!