They are eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, achieving universal primary education, promoting gender equality and empowering women, reducing child mortality, improving maternal health, combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases, ensuring environmental sustainability, and establishing a global partnership for development (UN MDG, 2016). Building off of these basic goals can help lift everyone up to a more equal field. From these goal it is evident that social issues and basic human needs are a huge importance. There has been a large step forward away from poverty in recent times however with social issues and equality it is much harder to improve. That is part of the reason why civil wars are so prevalent. The money to rebuild countries and lift them from poverty is there as long as citizens of these countries are able to come together and form social ties that can prevent …show more content…
From analyzing the different stages of a civil war and the different ways aid can be given in those times it looks like the most effective times to give foreign aid is before and after the civil war. By giving aid only during these times it can incentivize civil wars to either not occur at all or to conclude quickly. If aid is given during the civil war it can promote “bad behavior” and if it is only given after the conflict is over it is promoting the conflict to end. If this strategy can limit the duration of civil war then it can also reduce destruction and death allowing for a more rapid rebuild and make the entire recovery process quicker. Although it is a tough position to allow civilians to be trapped in a war zone without aid, civil wars are a big issue that do not have an effective strategy to be dealt with. If new policies that take bold stances against internal conflict are not implemented, then this will continue to be an issue in the future. Through this papers research it is recommended that the international community takes a bold stance against conflict and does not give any aid to countries in conflict and communicates to leaders of countries in conflict and leaders of rebellion groups that as long as they are in conflict they will not be receiving assistance or aid until they peacefully resolve