The Equation

Nowadays, two different worlds go beyond, they cannot live one separated from the other. These two worlds are not heaven and hell, are not Mars and Venus, and are not the spiritual and physical world. They are two worlds that live feeding each other, as all the opposites complement mutually.

The world is divided economically, socially and politically. The two biggest differences can be found looking for the different ways of living: having or not having enough to survive currently. These two big groups are completely close, both of them are related in all of the ways we can think about.

It a country is classified as first world country, this is because the fact that there are countries that don't belong to this category, obviously. These third world countries are who are feeding the big economies of the world.

Diverse forums, meetings and debates, are organized by non governmental organizations around the world. Years ago, when the American President Bill Clinton was in office, he clarified what was going to be necessary for the world to establish as main concerns: Prosperity and Security. Both points were set in a meeting of the World Economic Forum, where its chairman and founder, Klaus Scwab, declared: "We will not have strong, sustained economic growth across the world unless we have security. But we will not have security in unstable parts of the world without the prospect of prosperity". So the equation was security plus prosperity equals peace.

However, years later, in the World Social Forum, that took place in Bombay, the third world countries and international community is talking again about peace. Now the speech goes against the United States and its republican government. Nobel prices, workers, politics and social activists, UN members, claimed one more time for the peace challenging to have it globalized. A point of view where the economy goes in second place, where the peace is not the result, but the beginning.

Maria Sol de Brito

Febrero 2004