Opening of COP20 in Lima, Peru 2014. Wikimedia. Public domain.In the aftermath of the Paris attacks, leaders of the world’s strongest nations meeting in the Antalya G20 Summit vowed to destroy terrorism. French President Francois Hollande took the lead in calling for the US and Russia to join a global coalition to destroy the Islamic State, declaring that “France is at war”.
The jihadist militant group tries to establish itself as a global terrorist organisation, claiming responsibility for bringing down a passenger airplane in Egypt, and carrying out bombings that killed hundreds of civilians in Beirut and Paris. All this in two weeks time.
World leaders opt for tighter border controls and military action, despite the wave of empathy raised for the death of innocent citizens worldwide. Yet, the international community does not seem to have come up with a new strategy to tackle the rise of ISIS and the escalating brutality that comes with it. On the contrary, we see more of the same that followed after 9/11. A war, which evidently makes fundamentalist violence worse.
