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Let me now make a pessimistic though a realistic forecast about the society of tomorrow. There are compelling reasons to believe that it will be conflict-ridden and rife with victimisation.

If what we witness now, if what we watch daily in the news, is any indication of how societies in the future will be like, there is unfortunately little reason for optimism! Genocide which we thought was a phenomenon of a particularly dark era in the history of humanity is still being perpetrated. The condemned practice of child labour is rampant in developing countries. Attempts to prevent human trafficking have not been successful. Oppression, suppression, extra judicial killings, mass disappearances, liquidation of political foes, rivals and opponents are regular features of many world regimes. Police killings of, and police brutality against, members of minority groups, against dissidents and protestors, have become first page news following publicized incidents in different parts of the world. Mass shootings in the most advanced society in the world are a daily occurrence. Hate crimes are common place. Racism, misogyny, anti-Semitism, islamophobia, homophobia, etc. are deeply rooted in many cultures and have proven to be resistant to eradication even change. The victimisation of minorities be it ethnic, religious, cultural or sexual minorities, continues unabated, even in some of the most democratic and most prosperous societies. Advanced technologies have resulted in new forms of victimisation and many new types will inevitably come into being and claim as victims millions of daily users. The aging of society has created a group of citizens who are particularly vulnerable to victimisations of various kinds. The Corona pandemic, to which they became the primary victims, revealed to an unsuspecting world the victimizing and dehumanizing conditions in which they were living, even in the richest countries on earth.