A Legacy of fragmentation and development failures

Decades of fragmentation and division in the Arab world have created major threats and challenges to its development and progress. Some challenges are political or humanitarian; they concern national freedoms, regional security and refugee populations; others stem from flawed or failed national development policies. Still other threats are environmental, undermining both present-day and intergenerational equity. There are also polarizing cultural challenges that shape the individual and collective consciousness; drag society into conflicts; and limit the potenti for human awakening

Related Subject(s): Economic and Social Development