War and humility
Stephen Feltham believes the seeds of war are sown in our own backyards.
2013 witnessed a growing amount of attention being given to the one hundredth anniversary of the beginning of world war one. There has been much said already, and even more to come, on that terrible event. It is a troubling thought that opportunities for peace will be missed by the current style of remembrance. Many would say that the trigger for world war one was that fateful day in Sarajevo when, on the 28 June 1914, one hundred years ago, Franz Ferdinand of Austria and his wife Sophie were murdered by Gavrilo Princip. It is a consensus that this event marked the start of world war one. Perhaps the opposite is true: the day actually marked the end of a process of squabbling and bickering that had been occupying minds through several decades. To avoid wars we should seek lessons at least from the decade preceding that war.
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