09th January 2010
Should we start equating ourselves to the consequences of failed states?

There are serious lessons to be learnt from failed states such as Afghanistan, Pakistan, Yemen, North Korea and a couple of African States to name but a few, but what are the first signs of a failed state? In our view, indiscipline, corruption and lack of education could very well represent the hardcore of the problem. How can Governments arrest and promote a new ideology to change this direction? Students who don’t have academic qualities need to be channelled towards vocational institutions at an early age and parents need to face the hard facts.
Birth control should remain a top priority to avoid minors from becoming parents as parents ought to remain the foremost link to proper guidance. We have felt for years that vocational schools should be enhanced throughout the region with help from the European Union who have a track record in that field, as a young individual without academic qualities is simply lost in the academic world.
Corruption at top levels is a poor example but crime and corruption amongst the youth to sustain a living in the absence of good, standard education is the root of all the problems amongst most failed states.