Sustainable Security

openSecurity’s Sustainable Security column identifies preventive solutions to address root causes and underlying trends of social, environmental and national security threats. The four interconnected trends that are identified as most likely to lead to substantial global and regional instability are: climate change; competition over resources, including water, energy and food; economic and other forms of marginalisation of majorities both globally and within most states; and militarisation.

These four drivers represent something new. Never before has humanity faced a world as interconnected yet so socio-economically divided, where environmental limits are so apparent and where traditional approaches to the use of force are so counter-productive.

Each month a rotating network of experts from Oxford Research Group’s Sustainable Security programme and their partners will explore on-going issues of global and regional insecurity.