OxPeace 2017: How can world peace be organised?
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Tangible steps that can be taken to better organise the world for peace. World peace is out of fashion: not even pacifists believe in it nowadays, wrote Susan Sontag. Yet a series of recent UN reviews came to the conclusion that peace is fundamental to the achievement of other goals. The peace imperative was recognised by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) which call for peaceful and inclusive societies. This talk examines the challenges that make world peace so difficult, considers past efforts and ideas, and introduces some tangible steps that can be taken to better organise the world for peace. - See more at: https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/1cbff6e8-44d7-4ee7-895a-dc0d2c06e027/#sthash.c72k6Nor.dpuf