Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- I THE CHANGING COMMONWEALTH
- II DEMOCRACY
- III THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
- IV SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- V DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA
- VI NIGERIA IN TRANSITION
- VII PEACE AND SECURITY IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD
- VIII TOWARDS A COMMON HUMANITY
- NOTES TO THE TEXT
- ANNEXES I Basic Data on Commonwealth Member Countries
- ANNEXES II Map of the Commonwealth
- ANNEXES III Commonwealth Membership of Regional Organisations
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX
VII - PEACE AND SECURITY IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Introduction
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- I THE CHANGING COMMONWEALTH
- II DEMOCRACY
- III THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE MAKING OF THE NEW SOUTH AFRICA
- IV SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
- V DEVELOPMENT AND DEMOCRACY IN AFRICA
- VI NIGERIA IN TRANSITION
- VII PEACE AND SECURITY IN A PLURALISTIC WORLD
- VIII TOWARDS A COMMON HUMANITY
- NOTES TO THE TEXT
- ANNEXES I Basic Data on Commonwealth Member Countries
- ANNEXES II Map of the Commonwealth
- ANNEXES III Commonwealth Membership of Regional Organisations
- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS
- BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- INDEX
Summary
Pathways to International Security
Professions for World Disarmament and Development, London, Britain
18 March 1989
In this address to the fifth annual conference of PWDD, founded in 1982 through the inspiration of Lord Fenner Brockway, he speaks of the Commonwealth as a catalyst of global change for the better “in a fragile and increasingly threatened habitat” …
I feel greatly honoured and privileged to be invited to address this fifth annual conference of Professions for World Disarmament and Development. In the face of such an array of intellectual and professional distinction I have sought some comfort and a degree of consolation from Goethe's maxim that all good ideas in this world have already been thought. But Goethe did add one rather important rider: the point is, to think them again!
Never have ideas had the potential to play so important and decisive a role in defining and shaping our common future as now. There is a compelling need for the world's wealth of professional and political intelligence and imagination to be employed in tackling the problems of our threatened humanity, and the new dangers that dangerously threaten our fragile habitat. We are learning, albeit slowly, that to respond adequately to the deepening global problems that confront us, we must develop a shared analysis and perspective about our world in order that we can create collectively a life-enhancing environment, politically, economically and socially for all its inhabitants.
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- The Missing HeadlinesSelected Speeches, pp. 387 - 426Publisher: Liverpool University PressPrint publication year: 1997