The report examines the global issues of international security, employment, food and transition in Eastern Europe and identifies a range of `uncommon opportunities' that have arisen since the end of the Cold War to evolve lasting solutions to these problems. It...
The vision of opportunity presented in this report is based neither on blind hope nor on scientific projection. Mere wishing has no power to accomplish and science has not evolved far enough for projections with regard to the complex processes that govern global...
In the preceding chapters we have tried to draw attention to the uncommon opportunities that the world presents at the dawn of a new millennium for the abolition of war and the eradication of poverty. None will question the desirability of achieving peace, democratic...
The pace of human development continues to accelerate. The world has changed more during the present century than in the previous nineteen centuries combined economically, socially, politically, scientifically and technologically. In recent decades humankind has been...
The production of more food to meet the needs of a burgeoning population has been one of the outstanding global achievements of the post-war period. It has demonstrated the extraordinary capacity of humankind to meet a collective challenge of monumental proportions....
Peace and democracy can provide only the foundation for stable and productive social life, not its fulfilment. For that, political security has to be complemented by economic security and a blossoming of individual and cultural potentials. Yet here our optimism seems...
The main prerequisite and condition for the fulfilment of the worlds many different potentials is peace. As democracy supports peaceful relations between states, economic prosperity and fuller development of people, peace makes possible the development of stable...
The Next Millennium We are on the threshold of a new millennium. All civilizations have recognized the special significance of new beginnings the dawn of a new day, a new year, a new century. These are moments of new birth when fresh vision and greater energy are...
Looking back, it is astonishing how much the world has changed since the idea of establishing the International Commission on Peace and Food was first conceived in 1987. Who had the foresight to imagine the monumental changes which have so radically altered the...