{"id":202932,"date":"2025-12-25T07:32:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202932\/"},"modified":"2025-12-25T07:32:17","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T07:32:17","slug":"the-bondi-attack-reveals-the-fragility-of-peace-and-why-we-must-rebuild-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/202932\/","title":{"rendered":"The Bondi Attack Reveals the Fragility of Peace \u2013 and Why We Must Rebuild It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The world is entering its most fragile period for international consensus since the end of the Second World War. According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.visionofhumanity.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Global-Peace-Index-2025-web.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Global Peace Index 2025<\/a>\u202f(GPI), global peacefulness has declined in 13 of the past 15 years. There are now more active conflicts than at any time since the Cold War. International aid is shrinking, geopolitical competition is rising, and global goodwill is fragmenting.<\/p>\n<p>We call this period the Great Fragmentation: a world where trust \u2013 between countries, communities and institutions \u2013 is breaking down. Our mechanisms for cooperation are weakening at the very moment when collective challenges such as climate change, economic inequality, mass displacement and rapid technological disruption require unprecedented collaboration.<\/p>\n<p>When these pressures converge, violence becomes more likely, whether in conflicts abroad or in violent incidents at home.<\/p>\n<p>One of the GPI\u2019s 23 indicators is the ease of access to small arms and light weapons. The proliferation is\u00a0staggering:\u00a0more than one billion firearms\u202fare in circulation globally, of which around 85 per cent are held by civilians. Access to weapons does not automatically lead to violence, but it heightens the potential for it. Where Positive Peace \u2013 the attitudes, structures and institutions that sustain peaceful societies \u2013 is strong, the risks are mitigated. Where it is weak, weapons become a flashpoint.<\/p>\n<p>Highly peaceful countries such as Iceland, Portugal,\u00a0Singapore\u00a0and New Zealand feature low homicide rates, low terrorism\u00a0impact\u00a0and\u00a0relatively tight\u00a0access to firearms. But the relationship is not universal. Switzerland and Finland, for example, combine\u00a0high levels\u00a0of civilian firearm ownership with high peacefulness, because they also\u00a0maintain\u00a0strong governance, low corruption, rigorous\u00a0training\u00a0and robust licensing systems. Their foundations for peace counterbalance the risks that guns introduce.<\/p>\n<p>This nuance is crucial. <\/p>\n<p>Weapons amplify the environment in which they exist.\u202fIn cohesive societies with strong institutions, risk is\u00a0contained\u00a0simply by the social cohesion of society. In fragmented societies, the same weapons can turn local tensions into mass-casualty events.<\/p>\n<p>Across Ukraine, the Middle East, and parts of Africa, Asia and Latin America, peace agreements are becoming harder to achieve. Conflicts are increasingly complex, fragmented and shaped by transnational networks, including arms trafficking, cyber operations and the spread of extremist ideologies online. Traditional diplomacy is struggling to manage conflicts that no longer have clear fronts, clear actors or predictable trajectories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The world is entering its most fragile period for international consensus since the end of the Second World&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202933,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[972,3127,110221,85,46,1630,43,3950],"class_list":{"0":"post-202932","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-finland","10":"tag-gun-laws","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-new-zealand","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-switzerland"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202932","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202932"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202932\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}