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Lessons from a year of crisis and conflict

by admin on | 2024-12-30 09:27:32 Last Updated by admin on 2025-01-05 02:15:45

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As the curtain falls on 2024, we find ourselves reflecting on a year that tested our resilience, illuminated systemic vulnerabilities, and underscored the urgent need for change. This was a year marked by abductions that gripped communities with fear, an economic malaise that deepened inequality, and political tumult that tested the very foundations of governance. The wave of kidnappings has cast a dark shadow over communities: families torn apart, whole societies cowed into fear. The increase in kidnappings for political ends, as well as because of criminal greed, has brought to the fore the fragility of security systems across regions. Each incident serves as a grim reminder of the vulnerabilities within law enforcement and shows gaps that embolden perpetrators and leave citizens unprotected. These abductions have caused trauma; deeper into society, they show erosion of confidence in public institutions and a feeling of impunity that emboldens the commission of crimes. Some nations have risen to this challenge, showing resilience and unity in the face of this scourge. They have banded together, supporting victims to restore order. Where institutional dysfunction buckled under, so as to leave victims and their families with no justice and trapped the communities in endless cycles of fear and despair, there have been some which buckled above odds. Snatched closure of many heightens pain together felt that acts like a clarion call for better systems and accountability toward newer resolve in protecting human dignity. The year 2024 has fared for many as a period of marked economic stagnation and struggle, struggle-widening inflation, general job losses, and an ever-growing gap between rich and poor, slowly depleting the livelihoods that millions depend upon. Successive shocks were slowly slipping...Read More