The document discusses the current humanitarian crisis as a result of capitalism, imperialism, and lack of global governance. It argues that wars and military interventions by Western powers like the US and EU in countries like Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya and Syria have devastated societies and displaced millions of refugees. It calls for replacing capitalism with a model like Scandinavian social democracy and establishing democratic global governance to prevent war, terrorism, and further humanitarian crises.

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HOW TO PREVENT HUMANITARIAN DEBACLE IN THE
CONTEMPORARY WORLD
Fernando Alcoforado *
One observer aware of what happens in the world realizes that we live in a process of
unprecedented economic, political and social breakdown in human history whose
product has been widespread violence in all parts of the Earth. The main responsible of
all this are, on the one hand, the chaotic capitalist economic system and on the other, the
ungovernable international system. From its origins in the sixteenth century as a mode
of production, capitalism has been characterized by barbarism which means savagery,
cruelty, inhumanity, incivility. Massacres, genocides and multiple forms of human
degradation characterize capitalism in its historical development. In turn, the
international system has not prevented wars between great powers and imperialist action
practiced by them for centuries against the peripheral capitalist countries even less
establish world peace.
It is in the capitalist periphery that capitalism and imperialist action expose its most
barbaric face. This is the case, for example, the current refugee crisis which is the
largest since World War II. The refugee crisis is the tragic result of a criminal policy of
wars and military interventions to plunder the peripheral capitalist countries
implemented by the United States and the European Union in Afghanistan, Iraq, Sudan,
Libya and Syria. What the world witnessed today, with thousands of desperate refugees
trying to reach Europe is the effect of this criminal policy maintained by major Western
powers. In more than a decade, Afghanistan and Iraq wars, undertaken under the guise
of being "against terrorism", and justified with vile lies about "Iraqi weapons of mass
destruction", devastated whole societies and killed hundreds of thousands of men,
women and children.
The rise of the Islamic State (ISIS) and the sectarian and bloody civil wars ongoing in
Iraq and Syria are product of the devastation promoted by the United States and its
allies. Given the reduced humanitarian assistance and the lack of prospects of returning
home, many Syrians are trying to reach Europe, especially to Germany, through the
Mediterranean, the most dangerous sea route. In addition to the Syrians, there is more
than three million refugees from sub-Saharan Africa. The flow originating from
countries that are already many years in crisis, such as Sudan, Congo and Somalia, are
in addition to hundreds of thousands of people who had to leave countries such as South
Sudan, the Central African Republic, Nigeria and Burundi. The terrorist attack that
grows every day in the world, especially in the Middle East and Europe is the product of
the criminal policy of military wars and interventions adopted by Western powers.
Through schemes subject to their interests, the US government and its Western allies
have sponsored all possible acts of state terrorism, including illegal arrests and
detention, torture, murder, among other actions. Millions of people in Asia, Africa and
Latin America have suffered and suffer from these acts of state terrorism. Since the end
of World War II the world has known 160 wars when died about 7 million of soldiers
and 30 million of civilians. All "mega death" occurred since 1914 reached a total of 187
million dead. The wars are still part of our everyday besides terrorism to what has
become endemic in the current era. It is unacceptable to live in a world where, in the
last 6000 years of human history, there have been only 292 years of relative peace
among peoples. World history is largely a history of wars, because the states in which
we live born of conquest, civil wars and struggles for independence.

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This coincides with the fact that the United States has too extended his empire to the
point of not being more able to manage it, as happened with Spain in the seventeenth
century and the United Kingdom in the twentieth century. Since 2001, the Bush
administration raised the war spending after the attack on the twin towers in New York
to promote Iraq and of Afghanistan invasion and later Barack Obama promoted the
military intervention in Libya and, more recently, in Syria. Rampant violence and crises
that manifest themselves in various forms in the world in which we live are caused by
the decadent world capitalist system and the ungovernable international system.
Therefore it is essential to replace capitalism for a new model of society similar to
Scandinavian social democracy which is the economic system most successful in the
world because it has the highest HDI (Human Development Index) and to build a new
governance global model to ensure world peace and the real progress of humanity.
What will be the end of our world, of our lives if the world if today has become an
ungovernable chaos in which humans kill each other and think only of power and
wealth? It's what they do today with our world destroying for money and kill for wealth
and power. The lives no longer worth anything, nothing has value, all for power and
wealth! We have to avoid that humanity walk to the abyss of self-destruction.
Tomorrow, who will rule the world? Nobody, probably, if nothing is done to build
global governance. And this is the worst scenario. No country for more powerful it is
will be able to prevent wars and terrorism, resolve other problems of planet even less to
promote world peace. Wrongly, no country wants global governance because they do
not want to give up their sovereignty. The price of this approach has been the barbarity
of the escalation of war and terrorism unprecedented in human history. In addition to
preventing wars and terrorism, global governance would be absolutely necessary to
meet the global crises, economic, financial, ecological, social, political and combating
organized crime.
It can be said that humanity has evolved until now from the stage of savagery to
barbarism. Savagery is a characteristic stage of societies or primitive peoples. The term
barbarism has two distinct meanings, but linked: lack of civilization and barbaric
cruelty. The great challenge of the contemporary era is to make humanity progress from
barbarism stage in which it is at present to civilization. In the last 150 years, barbarism
has increased permanently. Year to year, decade to decade, violence and contempt for
the human being have increased seeming not to be a limit to this phenomenon.
Something far worse: men and women have become accustomed to barbarity no longer
exist surprise, strangeness, or horror face the inhuman acts.
Civilization is considered the most advanced stage of a given human society. There are
some elements generally accepted by everybody of what would become a civilized
society: 1) provide guaranteed security for all citizens whom should not fear the loss of
their lives or have physical damage; 2) provide health care of the highest quality
possible for all members of society; 3) grant access to food and water for all citizens so
that no one goes hungry or thirsty; 4) provide basic living conditions for all citizens; 5)
have a democratic legal system whose laws are established to preserve the well-being of
the population; 6) provide an educational system that guarantees equal access to high
level of education for all people in order to make population its highly educated; 7)
provide for the population freedom of thought, belief, religion, affiliation and
expression; and 8) guarantee the right of people to participate in government decisions.

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It is time for humanity to provide the most urgently possible of tools necessary to take
control of their destiny and put in place a democratic governance of the world. This is
the only way to end war and terrorism and, ultimately, stop the decay in the course of
humanity. Democratic world governance is unbelievably necessary because there is no
other means capable of building a world in which every woman, every man of today and
tomorrow have the same rights and the same duties, and in which the interests of the
planet and all nations, all forms of life and future generations, are finally taken into
account.
The fundamental role of democratic governance in the world would be the achievement
and maintenance of world peace and construction of governability of the economy and
the global environment. Through them, it would be pursued the defense of the general
interests of the planet. She sought to make every State to respect the rights of every
citizen of the world seeking to prevent the spread of global systemic risks of economic
and environmental. She would avoid the empire of one country and anarchy of all them.
The preservation of peace is the first mission of every new form of global governance.
Governance with these characteristics can only result from consensus among all peoples
and nations of the world. This would be the way that would make it possible to avoid
wars and terrorism and promote the convergence of all the peoples of the world around
a common goal.
Today, the world faces a humanitarian debacle. Humanity must understand that it has
everything to gain by joining around democratic governance in the world representative
of the interests of nations, including the most powerful, controlling the world in its
entirety, in time and space. The new world order to be built must organize not only the
relations between men on arth, but also their relationship with nature. It is necessary,
therefore, to be drawn up a planetary social contract that enables the economic and
social development and the rational use of nature's resources for the benefit of all
mankind. The building of a new world order based on these principles is urgent.
* Fernando Alcoforado, member of the Bahia Academy of Education, engineer and doctor of Territorial
Planning and Regional Development from the University of Barcelona, a university professor and
consultant in strategic planning, business planning, regional planning and planning of energy systems, is
the author of Globalização (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1997), De Collor a FHC- O Brasil e a Nova
(Des)ordem Mundial (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 1998), Um Projeto para o Brasil (Editora Nobel, São
Paulo, 2000), Os condicionantes do desenvolvimento do Estado da Bahia (Tese de doutorado.
Universidade de Barcelona, http://www.tesisenred.net/handle/10803/1944, 2003), Globalização e
Desenvolvimento (Editora Nobel, São Paulo, 2006), Bahia- Desenvolvimento do Século XVI ao Século XX
e Objetivos Estratégicos na Era Contemporânea (EGBA, Salvador, 2008), The Necessary Conditions of
the Economic and Social Development-The Case of the State of Bahia (VDM Verlag Dr. Muller
Aktiengesellschaft & Co. KG, Saarbrücken, Germany, 2010), Aquecimento Global e Catástrofe
Planetária (P&A Gráfica e Editora, Salvador, 2010), Amazônia Sustentável- Para o progresso do Brasil e
combate ao aquecimento global (Viena- Editora e Gráfica, Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo, São Paulo, 2011),
Os Fatores Condicionantes do Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social (Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2012),
Energia no Mundo e no Brasil- Energia e Mudança Climática Catastrófica no Século XXI (Editora CRV,
Curitiba, 2015) and As Grandes Revoluções Científicas, Econômicas e Sociais que Mudaram o Mundo
(Editora CRV, Curitiba, 2016) .