We need a policy of ‘preventative engagement’: international and individual solidarity and action to meet the challenges of poverty, disease, environmental degradation and conflict in a sustainable and nonviolent way.
— Mikhail S. Gorbachev, Green Cross International Chairman and former Soviet president, in the foreword to State of the World 2005.
Worldwatch Institute, ed. State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security. Washington: Worldwatch Institute, 2005.
In State of the World 2005: Redefining Global Security, Worldwatch researchers explore underlying sources of global insecurity including poverty, infectious disease, environmental degradation, and rising competition over oil and other resources. Find out why terrorism is just symptomatic of a far broader set of complex problems that require more than a military response.
(Text adapted from Worldwatch Institute’s website)
