We are assembling a coalition of groups to initiate a World People's Conference on Peace and Security in the year 2001. Planning for national security is usually the province of sovereign states, an arcane subject whose complexity is beyond the ken of anyone but a few initiates, the political insiders. Civil society plays little part in disarmament discussions. Treaties are negotiated largely behind closed doors, or in the corridors of power.
Military security is a deadly game played by a few.
The world of pawns has not been able to influence the outcomes. The common man dies while the expert plans. In the time that it has taken you to read this some real person has stepped on a landmine and has been killed. You were not consulted when the mine was manufactured and shipped to Cambodia or Angola or Afghanistan, but the person was killed in spite of the fact that you would wish her alive again. The refugees of the world wheel their few possessions away from battlefields where dark forces fight for obscure ends.