NEGATIVE IMPACTS OF POLITICAL INSTABILITY AND CONFLICTS ON SUSTAINED DEVELOPMENT IN THE GLOBAL SOUTH
The main purpose of this paper is to critically examine the root causes of political instability and conflicts in some poor countries in the Global South. This paper discovers that over the years, these poor countries in the Global South after their independence are still battling with serious conflicts, political and economic instability which have created serious untold hardship, insecurity, unemployment, illegal migration, poverty, and high rate of death in these countries. This paper observes that some of these countries include; Nigeria, Niger, Democratic Republic of Congo, Sudan, Somalia, Cameroon, Colombia Afghanistan, Pakistan etc. This paper discovers that poor governance, ethnicity, social inequalities, political infighting and unemployment are the major causes of political instability and conflicts in the Global South. Employing the methods of hermeneutics and critical analysis which involve interpreting the cases of political violence and conflicts and critically analyzing the impacts on sustained development in the Global South, this chapter argues that if there is no appropriate major put in place to curb these conflicts, there can never be a sustained development and peace in the Global South. This paper concludes that to reduce the likelihood of conflicts in the Global South, it is essential to promote inclusive development, educate the leaders properly, reduce inequalities and tackle unemployment in the Global South.
Keywords: conflicts, development, global, impacts, instability, negative, political, south, sustained