I fear today's technology can reinforce our instinct to confuse what's familiar with what's normal … which leads to skewed perceptions, bad decisions, and needless conflict.
For three years now Saudi Arabia has been slaughtering thousands of Yemenis in a needless conflict wherein, to quote Bloomberg quoting the UN, "especially a Saudi Arabian-led coalition and the Yemeni government it backs, have shown a disregard for civilian life possibly amounting to war crimes".
Without effective diplomacy, military capability is squandered in needless small conflicts for little gain.
Needless to say, conflicts also lead to significant vulnerabilities among populations, whilst population movements create further opportunities for disease spread.
"There is a needless level of conflict.
However, when we stop taking things so personally, we liberate ourselves from needless upset, defensiveness and conflict.
Needless to say, this new conflict is no more straightforward than the one he just left.
Needless to say, I was conflicted.
Needless to say, every contemporary conflict stems from when, one way or another, these principles are broken.
