We need to reconceptualize the notion of national security. One of the most efficacious ways of setting in motion these processes is through democracy.
Democracy has great value in controlling the worst impulses of ethnicity and nationalism.
History also discloses that democratic governments do not go to war against one another. An International Democratic Election Fund for financing voter education, registration and multi-party campaigns in countries making the transition to democracy would help insure that the democratic process had a better chance of flourishing. Funds would be directed at grassroots legislative campaigns as well as national elections. A key feature of the Global Polling Program would be the opportunity for anyone to submit a polling question. As time went on, the people of the world would learn more and more about what we all thought about different issues, thereby giving voice to the will, values and desires of the citizenry of the planet.