How the Four Powers Accomplished German Unification. A majority of political actors was opposed to unification. Along with these actors other powers, e.g. Poland, rejected unification. There are alternatives to violence in resolving the ethnic conflicts of the former Soviet Union. The violence has added trauma and human distress to compound the underlying problems of accommodating or making room for different ethnic groups on common territory where each not only has rights of cultural identity and of livelihood but also responsibilities to neighbouring groups of different ethnicity.
Overt violence has a very alienating effect.
People are not only physically separated but the deaths of 'martyrs', hostage taking, and enemy image propaganda by the media make the underlying conflict more inaccessible to resolve. David Krieger We Still Live in the Nuclear Age. The Nuclear Age began on a quiet stretch of desert in Alamogordo, New Mexico on July 16, 1945. On that day humanity took a long step on the road to its own demise. Just three weeks after the first test, a second atomic bomb was exploded, this time over the city of Hiroshima.