Context: This initiative is part of the intergenerational Existential Security Threats -EXIST Board including Strategy X-EXIST with a series of high level ‘Plans’ enabled with digital solutions by the Global Futures Platform for Planet People and Peace - further partners are welcome to advance collaborative actions and to create tools for different audiences.
Purpose: combine learning to transform security to actively prevent wars, effectively recover from conflicts, to avert nuclear and global catastrophe for the survival of humanity.
Key Challenges:
• The Doomsday Clock – in 2025 places the world at 89 seconds to midnight – a position closer than ever before from threats to human existence.
• Risks from Nuclear Catastrophe: could occur from weapons or from attacking a nuclear plant; since the 1950s over 20 accidental or near-misses have been recorded; whilst sea-level rise risks flooding of reactors with substantial land contamination.
• Nuclear Impacts for Humanity: an all-out exchange could initially kill billions, followed by a nuclear winter for 4-5 years, resulting in mass extinctions; even a small nuclear catastrophe could devastate crops and lead to widespread food insecurity.
• Weaponised Technologies: including drones and robotic weapons, allow for greater destruction at increasingly remote positions; poorly governed chemical, radioactive and biological materials can already be weaponised, whilst the emergence of artificial general technologies (AGI), potentially threatens human existence.
• Global Turbulence and Conflicts – are destabilizing the foundations of human security around the world, escalating conflicts and enhancing risks for World War III;
• Conflicts Divert Resources - reducing investment in development that prevents root causes of conflict, and further reduces resilience to address our planetary emergency.
Plan for Peace – From Human Security to Planetary Peace:
• Individual - Create a Culture of Peace: tackle root causes of violence and insecurity at individual and societal levels with Human Security for safe, fair and green communities
• Community - Pathways to Peace: design and rebuild green communities to promote human security, with recovery from trauma, reconciliation and regeneration as part of peace processes that enable communities to build back better to create enduring peace;
• Country - Prevent Conflicts and Wars: identify risks factors for emerging conflicts to intervene early through the rule of law, diplomacy and development combined with shared values that enable cooperation and trade within and between countries;
• Global - Control Weapons: advocate for and agree on global rights and responsibilities; implement controls for technologies and weapons of mass-destruction; adopt no first use policies, remove hair trigger alerts and pledge no use of nuclear weapons;
• Planet - Promote Planetary Peace: embed planetary security within global security frameworks, including redirecting investing in war to avert runaway climate change and secure the essential determinants of life for human security on a flourishing planet.
Cost Effective Interventions to Prevent Root Causes of Violence and Abuse
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Identification of Abuse and Treatment of Peri-Natal Depression |
Preschool enrichment programs |
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Home Visitation and Parenting Programs |
School based Social Emotional Intelligence Training |
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Early interventions for Conduct Disorder |
Classroom Behaviour Management |
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Multi-Systemic Therapy |
School based bullying, violence and abuse programs |
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CBT and PTSD treatment |
Community Alcohol Reduction Programs |
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Multi-component Community Prevention Programs |
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Empowerment to reduce gender inequality |
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Mass media ‘edutainment’ to change social norms |
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Address Inequalities and Access to Safe Green Spaces |
A ‘Partners Alliance to Catalyse Transformation for Peace’ – a PACT for Peace, to:
• Create a Culture of Peace – enhance community connectedness and promote well-being
• Pathways to Peace – recovery, regeneration and resilience in post conflict areas
• Prevent Conflicts – address root causes with diplomacy and early interventions
• Control Weapons – strengthen governance mechanisms and leadership training
• Planetary Peace – leadership education from Human Security to Planetary Peace
Resources: Peace Tools and Evidence on Preventing Violence - Promoting Peace