Indifference cannot be countenanced.

The Price of European Indifference

Passive tolerance to evil through inaction or indifference.

Solidarity is an excellent therapy for many mental states arrogance, desperation, indifference, egomania.

Encouraged by this indifference, Armenians successfully committed historical crime and genocide against Azerbaijanis.

You see, the scale of the suffering numbs us into a kind of indifference.

It was the continuing devastating war in the Congo and the indifference of the world.

The indifference of some countries to settling their arrears was a cause of great concern.

What accounts for this apparent indifference also evident among European politicians to the looming political risks in Britain?

As the world watches Libya s Muammar el Qaddafi slaughter his own people, we should remember the human cost of international indifference.

The challenges that are hampering the Government's efforts on the ground are all related to the indifference of the international community.

The population was very concerned at the lack of progress towards self determination and the international community's apparent indifference to their fate.

And there's kind of a bifurcation people had to choose between fear and acceptance actually fear and indifference they kind of chose suspicion.

Germany s Foreign Ministry is preparing a policy on Russian German relations that will enshrine indifference to Putin s lawlessness as being in the national interest of the most powerful member of the European Union. But indifference becomes appeasement when it encourages Putin to pursue his lawless ways in the international arena, as in his current campaign to strangle Georgia s economy.

It is suicidal for the EU to draw on Europe s worst political traditions, the common denominator of which is the idea that evil must be appeased and that the best way to achieve peace is through indifference to the freedom of others. Just the opposite is true such policies expose an indifference to one s own freedom and pave the way for war.

And recall that it was indifference to the non reforming East European communist regimes on the part of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union that ultimately sealed their fate and delivered Havel from a prison cell to Prague Castle. Havel, of course, was a beneficiary of such indifference, but he never practiced it, remaining a fighter for truth and freedom throughout his life.

In Uganda, most of our successes have been attained in the face of opposition, indifference or distracting, superficial heckling by quite a number of our external partners.

And recall that it was indifference to the non reforming East European communist regimes on the part of Mikhail Gorbachev and the Soviet Union that ultimately sealed 160 their fate and delivered Havel from a prison cell to Prague Castle. Havel, of course, was a beneficiary of such indifference, but he never practiced it, remaining a fighter for truth and freedom throughout his life.

If we want to build something better on the ruins of multicultural indifference, our dialogue must become more profound. Prejudice must make way for empathy, and alienation for respect.

But, despite deep divisions among the rebels, the cost of Western indifference is probably higher than the risk of intervention. The international community can no longer hide behind the pretense of ignorance.

We have maintained on several occasions in our region and elsewhere that the principle of non intervention in the domestic affairs of States must be associated with the idea of non indifference .

Whether it is mutilations in Sierra Leone, genocide in Rwanda, ethnic cleansing in the Balkans or disappearances in Latin America, the parties to conflicts have acted with deliberate indifference to those conventions.

In the international context, we join the appeal for a more just and humane world order in which the less developed nations are not condemned for all time to discrimination, indifference and backwardness.

Why the indifference? Are investors too complacent, or is their apparent lack of concern rational, given that the actual economic and financial impact of current geopolitical risks at least so far has been modest?

In this context, the US s inexplicable indifference towards the region is both naïve and dangerous. The incoming Democratic US Congress has signaled that free trade deals with Peru and Columbia need to be renegotiated.

France has a common history and geography with the countries on the southern Mediterranean shore. The duty to intervene and the cost of indifference is probably higher for France than for any other Western country.

They are the victims of hateful crimes that are a stain on the conscience of all humanity but that take place against a background of almost total indifference on the part of the international community.

International political indifference and a sense of inertia have characterized the conduct of the international community, which has aggravated the civil war and allowed unabated human suffering and environmental destruction to continue in my country.

Who could have said with certainty that the economic upturn announced by Hollande was real rather than aspirational? Beyond his message s wishful thinking, the public s reaction to the messenger was a mixture of disbelief and indifference.

Today s indifference is particularly, though not exclusively, evident in the United States. President Barack Obama was silent on the issue in his re election campaign, and breathed scarcely a word about it in his first campaign, too.

Yet the EU s strategy towards Ukraine has been ambiguous and obscure. The Orange Revolution s reform drive has been slowed or even halted by domestic political and economic crises, but also by the Union s perceived indifference to Ukraine s fate.

Many consider secession unlikely, but Dodik s threat does heighten fear that today s fragile status quo could break down. While nobody expects the mass violence of the 1990 s to recur, that does not justify diplomatic indifference and inaction.

Russian capitalism hates the consumer as much as Russian communism did. Russia's people, whether they are waiters or waiting for service, are convinced that they will be ripped off and treated rudely, and so steel themselves with indifference.

The indifference to such social disorder or social conflict risked communal and armed conflict such as those in Maluku, Central Sulawesi and West Kalimantan as well as armed conflict resulting from separatist movements as in Aceh and Papua.

Lenin once said that capitalists were so cynical that they would sell the Soviets the rope with which they would hang them. Lenin and communism have passed away, but that cynical indifference to suffering when profits are involved remains.

That indifference is not only foolish it is dangerous. Asia s democracies now risk confronting the same harsh question that the United States faced when Mao Zedong marched into Beijing, and again when Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini ousted the Shah in Iran.

This is explained by reports of police inaction and indifference to criminal complaints from internally displaced persons and security incidents within camps, some of which were apparently triggered by the police themselves and Janjaweed members being recruited into the police.

But Russia is not interested in joining, at least not on Europe s terms. Russians are well aware that Americans want their help in the Middle East on other issues, they listen to Europe and America with a stance oscillating between indifference and brutality.

Nothing is completely isolated, and foreign affairs no longer exists everything has become national, even personal. Other people s problems are now our problems, and we can no longer look on them with indifference, or hope to reap some personal gain from them.

The Vatican II reforms, for example, emerged not from a populist groundswell, but from the preferences of progressive theologians and bishops. This hierarchical approach, in which spectatorship trumps participation among the rank and file, is a major reason for indifference among ordinary Catholics today.

This indifference mirrors similar reactions to other recent global appeals, such as for schooling for Syrian refugees in Lebanon. The lack of concern seems particularly callous when one considers that the cost of educating a refugee child is no more than 8 a week.

In Zambia, Chinese mining firms indifference to the death of their African employees provoked large protests against China s presence. Though China finally pacified the situation by threatening to withdraw investment, doing so meant reneging on the promise not to meddle in other countries domestic affairs.

Europe s politicians are by and large proud of the EU and the way it has both grown and deepened. But it is also the EU s growing complexity that is at the root of voters waning enthusiasm, so their indifference is a matter for serious concern.

On the other hand, the EU is paying a steep price for the bureaucratic anonymity of its leaders. A process of escalating alienation and indifference between the Union and its citizens is at work, illustrated by low turnout in the last European Parliament elections.

At the same time, those developing countries that fail and or refuse to embrace an active constitutionalism, day to day democratic practices, good governance, and internationally accepted norms of political behaviour and political hygiene, have little right to complain about the donor's indifference to them.