ABSTRACT
Globalisation is defined as the extent to which it promotes global interconnect-edness, and the extent to which it promotes global consciousness: the belief that what happens in one part of the world should be of interest to the rest of it. The main explanation is to be found in the rise of global consciousness - and in this case that of a global civil society whose origins predate the end of the Cold War. Globalisation has not engendered greater violence, but it has promoted greater interest and moral engagement on the part of a global citizenry which is more aware of the wars that are being fought and which insist on the articulation of global norms. The anti-slavery movement was the first global protest movement in history. It has been forced to recognise the struggle for equal sovereignty, the anti-colonial revolution, the principle of racial equality, the drive for economic justice and cultural liberation.
