The U.N. says the current economic crisis is “deepening hunger worldwide,” and warns that the effects of wide-scale hunger may have irreversible consequences on health, education and productivity.
Today buyers and sellers do not trust each other, and the economic activity essential for civil order and prosperity has all but stopped for many nations.
The current financial crisis reveals that humanity has been here before. And we’ll be here again, unless we start taking a fundamentally different approach.
Career diplomat Uri Savir has a passion for peace in the Middle East. This interview by publisher and Mideast scholar David Hulme is Savir’s second for Vision.