The global refugee crisis threatens liberal world order
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From DAS SMACC, Vera Sistenich explains why it is critical that we care about the global refugee crisis. The global refugee crisis exemplifies some of the greatest challenges facing our global institutions and liberal world order today. From human rights, to xenophobia, sexism and economic protectionism, terrorism and climate change. National and international responses to the refugee crisis are sculpting moral and political norms around the globe. It is critical that we care about the refugee crisis today because it exemplifies some of the greatest challenges to our social order. As Hannah Arendt, the German-born Jewish political theorist wrote, "The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. ...[T]hinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down". It is now critical that we not only care, but think deeply, about our attitudes and policies towards refugees, wherever we come from. Tune in to an engaging and informative talk by Vera Sistenich, as she challenges us to consider how the global refugee crisis threatens liberal world order. For more like this, head to our podcast page. #CodaPodcast
The global refugee crisis threatens liberal world order
- Vera Sistenich @ThinkSyncs
- A refugee is a person who, “owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted for reasons of race, religion, nationality, membership of a particular social group, or political opinion, is outside the country of his nationality, and is unable or, owing to such fear, is unwilling to avail himself to the protection of that country” The Refugee Convention, 1951
- What is the crisis?
- KevinNinja Merkel’s Party
- GDP cost to Europe 0.09% 10% rise in migrants -> 2% drop in wages of menial jobs Pension spending will reduced 0.25% by 2030 Refugees pay less tax than benefits for first 20 years
- Economic protectionism
- “It is mere populism and an empty promise to the Rust Belt to suggest a different outcome. There’s no protecting to greatness, only competing for greatness. Not buying from foreigners is unlikely to go unnoticed or unpunished” Seeking Alpha, May 2017
- 1 in 3.6 billion!
- “Culturally-correlated irritations”
- IOM
- “The very best predictor of a state's peacefulness is not its level of wealth, its level of democracy, or its ethno-religious identity ... it is how well its women are treated” Valerie Hudson, Sex and World Peace
- “We are not born equal; we become equal as members of a group on the strength of our decision to guarantee ourselves mutually equal rights” Hannah Arendt
- FredtheOyster
- Dichotomy of the modern migration narrative: “Real” vs “Fake” (economic migrants)
- “Voluntary” vs “Distressed migrants”?
- Key tension in our liberal world order: Human rights vs Sovereignty of nation states
- Post-WW II Liberal World Order: Free markets UN Human rights NATO Rule of law WTO Elected governments IMF Independent judiciaries World Bank Free press G-20
- Financial Times
- Perverse triad of oil
- The Green Movement is a Peace Movement
- In conclusion...
- “The manifestation of the wind of thought is not knowledge but the ability to tell right from wrong, beautiful from ugly. ...[T]hinking gives people the strength to prevent catastrophes in these rare moments when the chips are down” Hannah Arendt
Notas do Editor
- KevinNinja
- Travel ban.
- Pointing the Islamophobic or xenophobic finger at refugees exacerbates the conditions leading to radicalisation and is likely to backfire in the strategy against the rising phenomenon of home-grown terrorist.
- Fred the Oyster
- Whilst it is accepted in refugee circles that...