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Volume-6, Issue-2, February - 2017 • ISSN No 2277 - 8160 Volume : 3 | Issue : 11 | November 2014IF : •3.62 ISSN | ICNo V 2277alue - 80.26 8179 Original Research Paper Management Violence as an impediment to achieve Sustainable Development Dr. Sanjay Assistant Professor, Bharati Vidyapeeth University Institute of Manocha Management & Research, New Delhi Associate Professor, Bharati Vidyapeeth University Institute of Dr. Anoop Pandey Management & Research, New Delhi KEYWORDS : War, Non-violence, Ecological balance. Each year, over 1.6 million people worldwide lose their lives to lost many things. The application of weapons, the destruction of violence. Violence is among the leading causes of death for people structures and oil elds, res, military transport movements and aged 15-44 years worldwide, accounting for 14% of deaths among chemical spraying are all examples of the destroying impact war males and 7% of deaths among females. Moreover, violence places may have on the environment. Air, water and soil are polluted, man a massive burden on national economies, costing countries billions and animal are killed and numerous health affects occur among the of US dollars each year in health care, law enforcement and lost people who live in those wars affected areas. This paper is about the productivity. environmental loss due to wars and attraction towards the solution i.e. Non Violence. Unfortunately the world has seen many wars War or non violence as a human activity is inherently unsustainable striking the environment very badly which includes loss of either socially or ecologically. Violence in today is growing and biodiversity, famine, sanitation problems at refugee expanding in all over the world, generating an atmosphere of fear, uncertainty, untouchability and claustrophobia. We experience not World War I: Trench Warfare – The Great War in 1914, the only the physical violence of war and crime, but also economic, assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary racial, religious, psychological, domestic-family and internal resulted in the First World War. It started with Austria-Hungary violence. There are evidences that violence is a great obstacle to invading Serbia, where the assassin came from, and Germany sustainable development. Violence or wars not only disturbs the invading Belgium. The war was mostly in Europe, between the Allies human beings but also affect the balance of ecological system. and the Central Powers. Therefore, the mantra (magic) for saving and make the resource sustainable is the Non Violence or peace. There is inevitable Allies: France, United Kingdom, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, Russia, relationship between peace and sustainable development. Non Poland, Serbia, Montenegro, Rumania, Albania, Greece, Portugal, violence is not pacism and it isn’t just a simple methodology for Finland, United States, Canada, Brazil, Armenia, Australia, India, New marches or other actions. More importantly non-violence is not the Zealand, South Africa, Liberia, China, Japan, Thailand, Guatemala, resigned attitude of those who avoid conict and graveness out of Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, and Panama fear. Non violence is a great life philosophy and method for taking action. It has always been inspired by deep moral and religious Central Powers: Austria-Hungary, Germany, Turkish Empire, and convictions and today it is the only coherent answer to the spiral of Bulgaria. violence surrounding the entire world. We need to opposed to all types of violence, and not only to the one most spectacular form, Half of the world was involved in it; the war was fought from trench, namely armed conicts between or within state actors that we refer dug from the North Sea to the border of Switzerland. In 1918 when to simply as “war”. The quest for personal peace is bound up with the war was over, empires disintegrated into smaller countries, the aim of achieving a peaceful society, and this can only be attained marking the division of Europe today. Spanish Flu was outbreak and when society as a whole is striving to exist in a reciprocal and it killed over 7 million people. The war did not directly cause the harmonious manner with the balance of life and the extra-human inuenza outbreak, but it was amplied. Mass movement of troops world. In this paper we analyzed that deeply concerned individuals and close quarters caused the Spanish Flu to spread quickly. are doing very cogent work on environmental issues, yet somehow Furthermore, stresses of war may have increased the susceptibility the same energies are not as clearly brought to bear on the war of soldiers to the disease. system, which we note does as much as or more than any other single human activity to destroy the environment. Impact on Environment: If we look into the environmental impact, World War I was most damaging, because of landscape changes PURPOSE OF THE STUDY caused by trench warfare. Digging trenches caused atten of 1. The motive behind this study is to get an insight of the loss to grassland, crushing of plants and animals, and churning of soil. environment due to wars and to nd out a solution for Erosion resulted from forest logging to expand the network of sustainable development. trenches. Soil structures were altered severely, and if the war was 2. The research is aimed towards exploring the living never fought, in all likelihood the landscape would have looked very conditions, war aftermath and measures taken by the differently today. government. Another damaging impact was the application of poison gas. Gases “Warfare is inherently destructive of sustainable development. were spread throughout the trenches to kill soldiers of the opposite States shall therefore respect international law providing protection front. Examples of gases applied during WWI are tear gas (aerosols for the environment in times of armed conict and cooperate in its causing eye irritation), mustard gas (cell toxic gas causing blistering further development, as necessary.” – 1992 Rio Declaration and bleeding), and carbonyl chloride (carcinogenic gas). The gases caused a total of 100,000 deaths, most caused by carbonyl chloride War means destruction of life, resources and humanity. Starting (phosgene). Battleelds were polluted, and most of the gas from the Mahabharata to World wars we do not gained anything but evaporates into the atmosphere. After the war, unexploded GJRA - GLOBAL JOURNAL FOR RESEARCH ANALYSIS X 609 IF : 3.62 | IC Value 80.26 VVolumeolume-6, : 3 Issue| Issue-2, : 11 Februar | Novemby - 2017er 2014 • ISSN • ISSN No N o2277 2277 - -8160 8179 ammunition caused major problems in former battle areas. reason. Within days after the blasts, radiation sickness started Environmental legislation prohibits detonation or dumping rearing its ugly head, and many more people would die from it chemical weapons at sea, therefore the cleanup was and still within the next 5 years. remains a costly operation. In 1925, most WWI participants signed a treaty banning the application of gaseous chemical weapons. The total estimated death toll: In Hiroshima 100,000 were killed Chemical disarmament plants are planned in France and Belgium. instantly, and between 100,000 and 200,000 died eventually. In Nagasaki about 40,000 were killed instantly, and between 70,000 World War II: Gas Chambers – World War II was a worldwide and 150,000 died eventually. conict, fought between the Allies (Britain, France and the United States as its core countries) and the Axis Powers (Germany, Italy and The events of August 6 and August 9 can be translated into Japan as its core countries). It started with the German invasion of environmental effects more literally. The blasts caused air pollution Poland and Czechoslovakia in 1939, and ended with the liberation from dust particles and radioactive debris ying around, and from of Western Europe by the allies in 1945. the res burning everywhere. Many plants and animals were killed in the blast, or died moments to months later from radioactive Hiroshima & Nagasaki nuclear explosions Atomic bombs are precipitation. Radioactive sand clogged wells used for drinking based on the principle of nuclear ssion, which was discovered in water winning, thereby causing a drinking water problem that Nazi Germany in 1938. During the process, atoms are split and could not easily be solved. Surface water sources were polluted, energy is released in the form of heat. Controlled reactions are particularly by radioactive waste. Agricultural production was applied in nuclear power plants for production of electricity, damaged; dead stalks of rice could be found up to seven miles from whereas unchecked reactions occur during nuclear bombings. The ground zero. In Hiroshima the impact of the bombing was invention in Germany alarmed people in the United States, because noticeable within a 10 km radius around the city, and in Nagasaki the Nazi’s in possession of atomics bombs would be much more within a 1 km radius. dangerous than they already where. When America became involved in WWII, the development of atomic bombs started there in Iraq & Kuwait – The Gulf War was fought between Iraq, Kuwait and a what was called the ‘Manhattan Project’. In July 1945 an atomic number of western countries in 1991. Kuwait had been part of Iraq in bomb was tested in the New Mexico desert. The tests were the past, but was liberated by British imperialism, as the Iraqi considered a success, and America was now in possession of one of government described it. In August 1990, Iraqi forces claimed that the world’s deadliest weapons. the country was illegally extracting oil from Iraqi territory, and attacked. The United Nations attempted to liberate Kuwait. Starting Impact on Environment: Between 1941 and 1945, over 1 million January 1991, Operation Desert Storm began, with the purpose of people were killed in the gas chambers of the extermination camp destroying Iraqi air force and anti-aircraft facilities, and command Auschwitz-Birkenau in Nazi Germany. Over 90% of the victims were and control facilities.