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Strategies for Peace

This issue of the Futurist examines global strategies for achieving a future of peace. Strategies designed to solve global crises need to move beyond a defensive, reactive, militaristic mind-set, writes international security scholar Gregory D. Foster of the U.S. National Defense University. Instead, we need to think in terms of how peace can be created in a climate of uncertainty, complexity, and turbulence. The key, Foster believes, is to address the underlying causes of conflict and earn the trust of conflicting factions. When the aim is peace, the goals of strategy are different from the goals of competition.

To illuminate the complexities of this new strategic mind-set, THE FUTURIST invited essays by prominent policy scholars and thought-leaders: Edward N. Luttwak of the Center for Strategic and Interantional Studies, James N. Rosenau of George Washington University, Joergen Oerstroem Moeller of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, Andrew J. Bacevich of Boston University, and Pamela R. Aall of the U.S. Institute of Peace.

And to offer a voice and vision of experience, international development scholar John Richardson draws on lessons learned from  decades of civil conflict and terrorism in Sri Lanka to outline what must be done to achieve a more peaceful world. See "10 Imperatives for Peace."

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