Inequality, Conflict and Social Justice

INEQUALITY, CONFLICT AND SOCIAL JUSTICE
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Introduction
Inequality, conflict and social justice have been a part of the world ever since. People have evolved and societies have been built through conflicts and resolutions of the same. Inequality has been the epicenter of the of these conflicts and have often lead to social justice. Ethnicity and race have often decorated these conflicts in the form of social injustice. These have mutated into hatred, ethnocentrism and more injustice. The situation has been made worse by democracy. Since democracy depends on the majority population, this has precipitated injustice as the minority keep being ignored and their views not making effect in the overall governance in the society. Because of this, people have often tried to come up with means and ways to solve these conflicts and iron out the difference in order to build a stronger society. CITATION Cam72 \l 1033 (Campbell)
Causes of conflict and social justice
In the ancient world and even today, conflict was often been built upon ethnic tensions, difference in religious beliefs and ideological differences.
Religious conflicts have often been because of right to a given belief. Each side claiming that they are the ones with the right belief and wanting to cow the other believers to take to their way. The most common and well known example of this kind of conflict is the Christians and the Muslims who have engaged in countless wars and conflicts in different part of the world. The worst part of this type of conflict is that it is deemed a holy war. Giving those involved in the war the right to feel just to keep fighting. Some religions even go ahead to promise tho...