Nigeria: The Refugee Crisis in Europe - One World, One Prosperity, or One Poverty?

12 September 2015
opinion

One of the lessons the West must learn from the failure of its Syrian policy and the success of democracy in Tunisia is that nothing ultimately substitutes for the will of the people in finding ways of organising themselves in true mass movements to change their society. The true mass movement of the people for democracy is stronger than arming thousands of guerillas by proxy to fight dictatorial and genocidal regimes, the type that we have seen in Syria. The second lesson is the need for a truly moral high ground beyond economic interests, in supporting democratic resistance in developing countries.

One world, one prosperity or one poverty. That is the lesson of the migrant crisis now in Europe. In a globally integrated world, we all have a shared destiny on the long run. Syria looked so far from Europe but now it is now so close. Europe, the US and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) must do more to support democracy and good governance in developing countries, support the building of strong institutions but not by being confused and indecisive as we have seen in Syria. From Iraq to Libya to Syria, Europe and the U.S must learn the lesson of how not to intervene in a country to entrench democracy, whatsoever might be the objectives of these adventures, particularly in Syria and Libya.

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