What factors are currently the greatest threats to world peace?
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Apathy and Ignorance, beautifully illustrated in the answers to your question.\n\nThank you for your time.
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This planet will only ever be at peace when it no longer exists.\n\nMankind is a violent creature.\n\nMaybe the time for peace will be when the nuclear winter/artificial virus has finished off a vast majority of the populace. \n\nTherefore the responsibility of the individual is to prepare for such events.\n\nTrain your body and mind. Converse with intellectuals. Become someone who is valued in the community and recognised as a leader.\n\nArmageddon draws ever nearer with each hour that passes....
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1 Radical Islam and Jihad\n2 Immigration\n3 Social Security
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It is a false assumption that most humans want peace. At our core, what we really want most is control. We want control over our lives, our freedoms, our cultures, our traditions, our resources, etc.\n\nAnything that threatens our sense of control leads to another basic instinct called fear.\n\nWhen humans fear something, they inevitably seek to destroy it. \n\nIn a world with unlimited human wants and finite resources, natural selection does not favor those peoples, cultures, and civilizations that only want peace. It favors those who want control.
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The world will never be safe. Countries will still try to dominate and subjugate one another.\n\nMutual destruction only limits Nuclear action.  There are pleanty of ground wars going on.
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World peace is a misnomer. There has always been war on the earth, and there will be war long after we are gone from it. It is a sad truth that war is part of human nature. I would love it if the whole world could get along, but let's be honest, most of can't even get along with our neighbors and co-workers, much less the rest of the world.
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Try reading the book " The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" Samuel P. Huntington, 1996. He predicts that future conflicts will be determined by cultural factors more than economic or ideological factors. The Western world needs to develop a deeper understanding of religious and philosophical concepts of other civilizations. Religious and cultural fundamentalism can only gain ground by using for their own benifit the contemporary problems such as underdevelopment, unemployment, poverty and racism. And yes China, will become the next World Superpower and will have a strong relationship with Rusia and Japan. These are the results of his studies based on history and facts.
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The United States & England, both share the "BURDEN" of  haveing to "Deal W/Danrerous Areas in the World that are in fact Sensitive to  (World Peace). Of course that the two most popular Countries in the entire world are w/out say, is & alway has been the "Marriage of England & The U.S.A."both Countries are both Modeled Countries that the World Views as, Living Models that excell all other Countries. What other Countries would you want to defend you & the World?
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I think many people in Iran may WANT peace, but I don't trust their leaders.  Ahmedinejad speaks with a voice of war and hatred.  When you consider this AND the fact that they appear to be building nuclear weapons, I'd say that Iran is one of the most dangerous countries in the world today.  Most people in most countries (including the U.S.) WANT peace, but the governments rarely provide peace.  The government of Iran is not peace-loving.
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I'd say one of the most pressing issues would include the US occupation of Iraq.  I'm sure you can find lots of historical data and speculations about the future conclusion.
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it depends on how much people are willing to sacrife for world peace. and i don't mean lives. i mean putting away petty differnce over religon, land, and money. if we learn to respect others differnces and boundries may be. but in today's world world peace seems impossible. sorry
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War\nPeace\nCorruption
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World Peace.  It would benefit every single person.
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Certainly not.\n\nForce can be used and will be used for everthing, by the people who can use it.\n\nto keep the "global order" we are used to see, there's need of total control over our lifes, and all the violence needed to exterminate de threats against that order.\n\nyou may think by now we must have learnt something from our deads, from our wars, from the results of our own cruelty.\nwell, i can see clearly all people talking about peace has been always, in all countries, killed.\n\nso, the only "effective way" is to have more exterminating power. \nand control. check this up: \nhttp://www.lanacion.com.ar/exterior/nota.asp?nota_id=855347&origen=ranking
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I do not think it is a nation that is the big threat to peace.  Religion is the threat and has been for one heck of a long time.  There are many other factors as well such as language, customs and economy.  Nations get caught up in wars and other conflicts due to one or all of these and more reasons.  I keep hearing and Reading how bed things are now.  Do any of you read and understand history at all.  There is more peace on this earth now than there has been for over three thousand years.  This is a fact, it is true.  What is causing all this fear is the fact that now anything that happens any place on earth and beyond can be shown to the entire world in a matter of minutes.  The news media spends very little time reporting the good. Good does not earn enough money so it is the bad that people want to see and hear about.  I know most will not believe what I say because most are not able to think for themselves.
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world peace/ for everyone to get along.
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Peace\nProsperity\nUnity