Konflikty wewnętrzne w krajach światowych peryferii. Uganda – studium przypadku

Abstract

Many authors point out enormous socio-economic and cultural divisions in the new global order. The world is said to be divided into the rich and prosperous centre, the semi-periphery, and the periphery inhabited by 2/3 of the global population. Ulf Hannerz discusses four scenarios of ‘global ecumena’, the cultural analogy to new global economic order, one of them being ‘global homogenization’. The analysis of the recent political history of Uganda – a model periphery country – provides some arguments against this scenario. The elements of culture, such as the political system or conflict regulation, are not fully transferred from the centre to the periphery. What is actually transferred to countries like Uganda are only some democratic procedures that lead to quasi-democracy. In reference to conflict regulation, one can observe the clash of the traditional meaning of justice represented by the ethnic group with the one represented by the International Criminal Court. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the only possible scenario of ‘global ecumena’ is deformation of Western elements of culture implemented into periphery countries.