Strengthening the United Nations: Toward a “Conflict Revolution”

MBBI board member and former president, Ken Cloke, writes:

acr-cover“As the reach and destructive capacity of human conflict continue to escalate; as migrants stream across borders fleeing violence and civil war; and as ethnic and religious differences, environmental pressures and economic dislocations uproot families and communities around the world, it is becoming abundantly clear that the conflict resolution capacity we presently possess is entirely inadequate.

It is equally clear that the problems we face can no longer be solved by individual nation-states, and that regional and global cooperation will be increasingly necessary, requiring us to cross the borders we created over centuries to keep others out, favor local economies, and defend national sovereignty against presumptively hostile neighbors….” Read more.