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Re:Copenhagen Consensus: ranked solutions to the world's big... by marze on Sunday September 06, 2009 @08:06PM (#808333)
That sounds like a worthy approach. Any practical ideas on how to actually do it?

One possibility would be to allow a section of a country to secede if 60% of the population votes to do so. That might eliminate a popular reason for war in some situations.

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Re:Copenhagen Consensus: ranked solutions to the world's big... by asciilifeform on Monday September 07, 2009 @02:58PM (#809567)
> Any practical ideas on how to actually do it?

The (forbidden) answer has been staring everyone in the face for half a century: bring back colonialism.

http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-cr...

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Re:Copenhagen Consensus: ranked solutions to the world's big... by roundsquare on Monday September 07, 2009 @07:14AM (#808959)
>One possibility would be to allow a section of a country to secede if 60% of the population votes to do so.

How would you find out? In failed states I would think the mechanisms to solicit opinion don't exist to begin with.

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Re:Copenhagen Consensus: ranked solutions to the world's big... by whughes on Sunday September 06, 2009 @09:30PM (#808416)
Not great for the 10-20% minorities which are supported by the government of the whole country. They'd probably face oppression under a new regime, or themselves begin to rebel.
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Re:Copenhagen Consensus: ranked solutions to the world's big... by netsp on Sunday September 06, 2009 @09:43PM (#808432)
How would you define section of a country.
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