24. Contemporary global issues

24. Contemporary Global Issues

profile: War Conflicts, Terrorism, Immigration

state: Environmental Protection

CONFLICTS

The Afghanistan conflict is a series of wars that has been fought in Afghanistan since 1978. Starting with the Saur Revolution military coup, an almost continuous series of armed conflicts has dominated and afflicted Afghanistan. The wars include The Soviet–Afghan War, Afghan Civil War (1989–92), Afghan Civil War (1992–96), Afghan Civil War (1996–2001), United States invasion of Afghanistan and then The War in Afghanistan (2001–present) is the continuous incumbent war in Afghanistan, where the main conflict consists of Afghan Army troops, backed by additional United States troops, fighting against insurgents of the Taliban, and later also ISIS. NATO has also been involved in this war. It has been estimated that 1,405,111 to 2,084,468 lives have been lost since the start of the conflict…

The Syrian Civil War is an ongoing multi-sided civil war in Syria fought between the Ba'athist Syrian Arab Republic led by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, along with domestic and foreign allies, and various domestic and foreign forces opposing both the Syrian government and each other in varying combinations. The war is currently the second deadliest of the 21st century.

Trump authorized the killing of Iranian Soleimani. 2020 it could raise in huge conflict. Iran wanted revenge

REFUGEE CRISIS

Refugee crisis was a period characterised by high numbers of people arriving in the European Union from across the Mediterranean Sea or overland through Southeast Europe.The migrant crisis was part of a pattern of increased immigration to Europe from other continents. Between January 2015 and March 2016 the top three nationalities among over one million Mediterranean Sea arrivals were Syrian refugees (46.7%), Afghan refugees (20.9%) and Iraqi refugees (9.4%). Opposition to immigration in many European countries appeared to result partly from the socio-economic threat they were perceived to represent

The majority of people arriving in Italy and Greece especially have been from countries mired in war Syrian war, War in Afghanistan, Iraqi conflict or which otherwise are considered to be 'refugee-producing' and for whom international protection is needed

MIGRATION

• It is quite obvious why are people migrating poverty, wars, discrimination, economic reasons, quality of life…

TERRORISM

• Charlie Hebdo most toutching for us Europeans, most known, most extreme, most shocking…

• Two brother on Janary 7. 2015 murdered almost whole editorail staff of Charlie Hebdo bcs they were doing cartoons about Islam and muslims in not very nice way making fun of the ,,stupidity“ of some habits etc…

POPULISM AND OTHER

• Populism UK Brexit, USA Trump, CZ A. Babiš

• Fires Siberia, Australia

• Floods England, US

• polution in China…

Global climate change vs Global warming

• Although people tend to use these terms interchangeably, global warming is just one aspect of climate change. “Global warming” refers to the rise in global temperatures due mainly to the increasing concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
  “Climate change” refers to the increasing changes in the measures of climate over a long period of time – including precipitation, temperature, and wind patterns.