Worldwide Emerging Environmental Issues Affecting the U.S. Military. November 2005 Report

• Other Authors: FEDERATION OF UN ASSOCIATIONS WASHINGTON DC MILLENNIUM PROJECT
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2005
• Subjects: Military Forces and Organizations; Environmental Health and Safety; *ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; *MILITARY FORCES(UNITED STATES); HEALTH; PROTEINS; SECURITY; SOLAR CELLS; CLIMATE; INFRARED RADIATION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; UNITED NATIONS; POLLUTION; NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN; CHINA; INFLUENZA; VACCINES; NORTH AFRICA; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; PLANTS(BOTANY); WARNING SYSTEMS; DEICING SYSTEMS; TSUNAMIS; NANOTECHNOLOGY; EUROPEAN UNION; MIDDLE EAST; BIOTERRORISM; INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMAN SECURITY; AVIAN FLU; BIRD FLU; TOXIN ABSORBING PLANTS; GENETICALLY ENGINEERED VEGETABLES; STOCKHOLM CONVENTION; ELECTRONIC WASTE DISPOSAL SYSTEMS; SUNK WEAPONS; UNDERWATER SOUNDS; MARINE LIFE; REACH(REGISTRATION EVALUATION AND AUTHORIZATION OF CHEMICALS); RENEWABLE ENERGY; Axworthy; Avian flu; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA528684; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA528684

The UN was organized 60 years ago around the principle of preventing national wars. Today it should be reorganized around the principle of addressing human security, which would reinvent global governance, proposes former Canadian foreign minister, Lloyd Axworthy. A UN cohesive response system able to rapidly deploy aid when and where necessary is needed now to efficiently respond to current civil conflicts and disasters. There may be an emerging consensus that human security could be the next organizing principle for international relations. Whether or not Lloyd Axworthy will promote the idea in the UN General Assembly, the idea of re-organizing the UN on human security issues could well be inevitable. The military should create alternative scenarios for such potential UN restructuring and study how it might contribute to and be affected by each scenario. Prepared in cooperation with Battelle Columbus Operations, OH.