Common humanity not common community: The solution to global crisis

Abstract

Is a peaceful world an impossible dream? This is one of the most mind wafting questions of the
contemporary era. The contemporary period is dotted with both minor and major conflicts and wars.
Therefore, scholars are afraid that with the trend and ferocity of the phenomenon, humanity stands the
risk of going into obliteration. To check this insidious phenomenon, men developed several socio
political and religious ideologies. One of the major attempts towards this direction is the forming of
several alliances and unions that will bring individuals together into community. The most important
phase of this unionization of mankind is globalization-global village- ideology. This aims at bringing the
whole human race into one organic family, with market as the controlling force. Notably, the
globalization also known as „Common Community‟ in this work did not produce the required miracle
as wars and conflicts have become a common place. Against the backdrop of the failure of common
community ideology, we therefore propose a new ideology that can yield the peace dividend to the
world. This ideology is “Common Humanity”. This emphasizes the essence of human nature as a
common factor that unites humanity to common fate. It is anchored on care, respect, reciprocity and
human values. It accentuates unity in diversity rather than uniformity. This paper, having taken
historical as well as documentary survey of the contemporary society, underscores that if shareholders
in the world of politics will adopt this common humanity paradigm, humanity, will in short time,
experience a peaceful world of her dream.
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