War is an act of violence that is intended to compel the opponent to fulfill their political motives and morality. War is characterized by destruction. Carl von Clausewitz, a war theorist, stated that war is a natural part of human life. In its ideal form, war arises due to numerous variables, technological, psychic, social, and other timeless elements, including political impact, human intelligence, will, and emotions. The motives that lead towards war are instinctive hostility and hostile intention. In terms of absolute war, force is necessary; war disarms the enemy and uses exertion of powers. War occurs due to sociocultural differences and similarities, significant change in the balance of powers, individual perceptions and expectations, and a will to conflict. Doctrinal war involves understanding humanity, avoiding ethnic discrimination, knowledge and information warfare, countering knowledge and observation about action, and maintaining morale—judicious exploitation of the workforce, flexibility, and cooperation among the states.
Conflict is a dispute in a situation defined by the parties underlying goals, beliefs, mutual perception, and communication. Conflict is a process of communication, expressing passions and ideas. In achieving a new structure of expectations, conflict integrates underlying goals and mutual perceptions to reduce antagonism and helps to find facts. The procedure of fact-finding is essential to resolve conflict and clarify the conflict situation.
The Modernized Principles of War and Conflicts
The objective of modernizing the principles of war is to develop rethinking warfighting fundamentals such as adaptability, the changing concepts of national security, and parameters of the battlespace. War is becoming more a conflict of decision processes and conflict resolution along with non-conflict behavior and values. The modern war is information War, unified, and holistic.
- The Agenda for Humanity
It is a five-point plan that explains the changes needed to alleviate suffering, reduce risk, and reduce vulnerability globally. In the Agenda, people’s safety and dignity are elevated, and global leaders and all humanitarians are asked to act upon five core responsibilities. It comprises protecting civilians and civilian’s property. State and non-State parties ensure delivery of humanitarian and medical assistance such as providing essential needs for food, water, medical care, shelter, and protection to the areas that need humanitarian aid. States, regional, national and international organizations use investigative reporting, analysis, and decision-making mechanisms to enhance compliance with international humanitarian law. Improve compliance and accountability. Civil society and other global leaders should have greater compliance with international humanitarian and human rights laws.
- Ethnic conflicts
Ethnic conflicts are accompanied by gross human rights violations, such as genocide and crimes against humanity, economic decline, state and infrastructure failure, environmental problems, and refugee flows. Violent ethnic conflict leads to tremendous human suffering. To reduce ethnic and communal identity, the experts have suggested understanding the theories of ethnic identity. The approach helps to define individual self-identification. Mobilizing ethnic identity and ethnic nationalism will help deal with social and political systems that lead to inequality and control other ethnic conflicts including genocide, and mass rape.
- Knowledge and Information Warfare
Knowledge and information comprise command and control warfare, intelligence-based warfare, and psychological war. Some important factors such as, attention, memory, learning, and decision making help to improve human behavior and civilians’ decision power.
- How to counter knowledge of warfare
Some essential knowledge about specific warfare comes from examining the features of particular conflict situations, the political forces affecting the parties, and the resources. Other knowledge includes understanding the conditions that help the states know how to encounter specific conflicts and battles.
- Morality and Warfare
War helps to focus on individual choices. These moral decisions revolve around things concerning lifestyle and preferences concerning personal aspects of our lives. Communal morality talks about the overall cultural assumptions, beliefs, and practices. It involves essential elements of life in a community such as economic equality, the fair and just treatment of all persons, and ensuring that nobody is abused or denied human dignity.
- Economic growth
War can strengthen an economy by providing jobs. The war allows weapons and ammo manufacturing; consequently, in times of conflict, more people buy weapons which boosts the economy.
- Technological advancement
War with different states helps nations to develop better technology than their opponents. It includes better equipment and progress in aviation technology.
- Judicious exploitation of the workforce
War improves labor mobility that allows workers to improve their financial situations. Workers move locations to seek job opportunities that have a positive impact on productivity. As labor mobility improves, simultaneously, businesses and economies get developed.
Conclusion
War is an intense armed conflict between states, governments, societies. It is generally characterized by extreme violence, destruction, and mortality. Conflict is a dispute in a situation defined by the parties, underlying goals and beliefs, and facts. War takes place due to the changing relations of numerous variables–technological, psychic, social, and intellectual factors.
To further enhance your knowledge about the war and conflict, read the Religious Freedom Forever By Andy Swarna. Andy is an out-of-the-box thinker. He identifies himself as a self-learner. He is always concerned about resolving issues that people face in their daily lives. The author’s journey in politics, faith, and conflict resolution has revealed a historical fact and a universal truth that sums up the whole creation in a thought. The natural truth helps us envision our perceptions, allowing us to understand the power of honest opinions. To turn your ideas into reality, whether in the form of a resolution, law, or principle, it has to go through a specific process. This process contains knowledge from different thinkers, philosophers, ideologists, and historians. As suggested by thinkers and ideologists, using knowledge and the universal truth helps to reach one’s goals in faith and politics. Andy’s work has enabled him to devise a plan, a purpose, and being universal human is a solution to all human problems.
Reading the book lets us know that war is the symbol of triumph and demonstrates greater power and strength. Wars occur due to social, political, and ethnic reasons. It includes sociocultural dissimilarity, status difference, coercive state power, nationalism, and civil war. War brings economic gain, creates employment, additional economic activity, and contributes to the development of new technologies that can filter through into other industries. War helps to reduce ethnic and communal identity and develop individual self-identification. Thus, war settles down the conflicts concerning politics and faith. It helps to bring nonconflict values, morality, courage, peace, and harmony in society.