HLTH 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Project Ploughshares, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Doomsday Clock
15 Oct 2017
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The ottawa charter for health promotion lists peace as the first prerequisite for health: as levy & sidel explain, war accounts for more death and disability than many major diseases combined . Since war is always human-made, the death and disability it creates can be prevented. In 2011, harvard university"s steven pinker created controversy with his claim that we may be living in the most peaceful era in our species" existence . 1953 to 17 minutes before midnight in 1991. In other words, the goal of a safe, peaceful, healthy planet is still far from reach. In 2016, countries with conflicts that have resulted in direct violent deaths of at least 10,000 people in the past year include syria, iraq, and afghanistan. In 2015, over 65 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes by violence, the highest number since wwii: most of these are in the middle east and in africa.
