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Research line 1: The Challenges of Globalisation
Deepening on the globalisation phenomenon, advantages and opportunities that offers, and the challenges that lays out for the effectiveness of rights for peace and for the economic, ecological, social and political and cultural sustainability of our societies.

Within this research line are included the following issues:

  • Real globalisation and Possible Globalisation.
  • Violence in the Global Age (hard threats).
  • New Wars and the Curse of Resources.
  • The Local-Global Conflicts.
  • Humanitarian Crisis and the Responsibility to Protect.
  • Missions of International Organisations in Conflict and Post-conflict Situations.
  • Economic, Ecological and Social Challenges (soft threats).
  • Financial Speculation (even in food).
  • The Debt Crisis
  • The Lack of Monetary Sovereignty of the States.
  • Tax Fraud, Capital Flights and Fiscal Bunkers.
  • Food crises, Poverty and Unemployment.
  • The (un)Sustainability of Pensions.
  • Ecological Crisis: Climate Change, Pollution and Loss of Biological Diversity.
  • Internal and International Institutional Crisis: Corruption, The Crisis of Traditional Political Parties, The Power of Banks.