Tegegne Ayalew
Department of Surgery, Medical Faculty, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia.
Med Confl Surviv. 2008 Apr-Jun;24(2):107-14. doi: 10.1080/13623690801950385.
There is a huge global burden of disease and mortality. The principal underlying cause is regarded as poverty. This is associated with a global order of fear, over-consumption, over-population and violence, which can interact in a vicious circle. It is proposed that the solution to the problem is not only the relief of poverty, but the institution of a new order in which the individual is sovereign. This in turn requires a trinity of ideals for the individual: self-control to avoid over-consumption, altruism to cope with fear, and peace to manage violence.