More roadside bombings in Iraq as communitarian violence escalates. Terrorist attacks in Madrid and London. A Canadian diplomat killed by a terrorist attack in Kandahar, Afghanistan, followed by more attacks on Canadian soldiers. Reports of massive human rights abuses and killings in Darfur. A floundering peace process in Israel-Palestine. There is so much bad news about the state of the world today. The post-9/11 world does indeed seem to be a dangerous and threat- ening place, especially if we compare to it to the seemingly tranquil days of the Cold War. Yet, as the recently published and much acclaimed Human Security Report 2005: War and Peace in the 21st Century of the Human Security Centre at the Liu Institute for Global Issues at the University of British Columbia attests, nothing could be further from the truth. Notwithstanding our growing fears of the terrorist menace, the world has become a more peaceful place since the Cold War ended. The high-water mark of...
Fen Osler Hampson is the Chancellor’s Professor and director of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs at Carleton University.
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