Time to explore new routes to give peace another chance

With the development of a United Nations Emergency Peace Service—effectively a ‘911 first-responder for complex emergencies—the UN would finally have capacity to address some of its tougher assigned tasks.

The future, if there is to be one, will depend on far deeper co-operation, not confrontation, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has put a similar emphasis on prevention and protection, reducing violence, and placing women at the center of security policies, writes Peter Langille.Photograph courtesy of Wikimedia Commons

Opinion

BY PETER LANGILLE

April 13, 2022

Might this be a good time to pause and consider the options before jumping on the bandwagon of more military spending and more weapons for war? After all, this is 2022 and we’re all still vulnerable to a system of

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