Bulletin n. 1/2008
May 2008
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • Gibson Ian
    Down and Out in Globality: The Violence of Poverty, The Violence of Capital
    in Peace, Conflict and Development , Volume 12, Issue 12, May ,  2008 ,  pp. 35
    This paper will focus on the continuing conditions of poverty within globality and poverty’s interrelation with violence and inequitable usages of capital. These conditions are both supported and maintained by systems contained within globality. Elite classes in the North and South (arguably the helm of globality) who control movements of capital, dissemble concern towards issues of poverty while maintaining systems that ensure both poverty and violence will continue, the most prominent systems being global capitalism and war (whether selling arms for, or fanning the flames of). This global overclass (see Rorty, 1999) responsible for major global economic decisions has subsumed nation-state politics and law resulting in political inaction that rarely contributes to any significant reductions in global poverty or global violence. However citizen-driven action and here ‘citizen’ refers specifically to those whose defining purpose is to make the world better than they found it (see Reardon 2001, Singer 2002 & Bauman 2006) has kept both the issues of poverty and violence against the unrepresented on governmental and international agendas, consistently demanding that the root causes of poverty and violence be tackled, and that a sustainable rights-driven agenda be adopted, one that correctly identifies poverty as violence against the unrepresented.
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