Major global conflicts in Gaza, Ukraine, Syria, and Sudan have reached desperate levels with no resolution in sight. Last year saw a peak in state-based conflicts, presenting the highest recorded total since 1946. The normalization of extreme war crimes, including targeted attacks on civilians and children, has become routine. Moral relativism exacerbates the situation, as differing viewpoints on morality hinder consensus on peace. The collapse of the international rules-based order is apparent, creating a fragmented moral landscape that complicates the pursuit of peace and justice.
In Gaza, talk of ceasefires, truces and pauses typically ends in tears. The sheer scale and depravity of war crimes and other conflict-zone atrocities is extraordinary.
The deliberate, illegal targeting and terrorising of civilians, the killing, maiming and abduction of children, and the use of starvation, sexual violence, torture and forced displacement as weapons of war have grown almost routine.
Murdering and massacring innocents is morally indefensible, yet this question persists in protests and across various platforms around the world.
The collapse of the international rules-based order is mirrored by a crisis of the moral order, leading to a world ethically and morally fractured.
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