The first thing to be done in order to help growers to overcome this situation is therefore to offer them adequate means to escape from their poverty. A further problem stems from the situations of grave economic difficulty in some countries. These situations encourage mass migrations to more fortunate countries, in which there then arise tensions which disturb the social order. In order to respond to such reactions of xenophobic violence, it is not enough simply to have recourse to provisional emergency measures. Rather, what is needed is to tackle the causes, by promoting through new forms of international solidarity the progress and development of the countries from which the migrant movements originate.
Destitution therefore is a hidden but real threat to peace.
By impairing human dignity, it constitutes a serious attack on the value of life and strikes at the heart of the peaceful development of society. Poverty as a result of conflict 4. In recent years we have witnessed on almost every continent local wars and internal conflicts of savage intensity. Ethnic, tribal and racial violence has destroyed human lives, divided communities that previously lived together in peace and left in its wake anguish and feelings of hatred. Recourse to violence, in fact, aggravates existing tensions and creates new ones.