Building on its assets this system will bolster the community outreach capacity of Veterans for Peace at all levels. Training' opportunities will be offered to help members become more adept at being conversant with a diverse public in the realm of post-modern structural changes. Events are unfolding, more than ever before, with quick global consequences for a majority of the world's people. Among spotlighted concerns are burgeoning transnational corporate and financier hegemony, leaner working opportunities, demands for equity by social groups, and a flux of immigrations caused by economic aspirations and violent conflicts. Political misfeasance and manipulation of the situation has further engendered a rupture in a sense of common purpose.
Unprecedented opportunities appear available for some while others find deep disillusionment.
Dissociated peoples, projected into an increasing competitive policy system for livelihoods, pointedly accentuate their external differences, i.e. religious beliefs, ethnic or race identity, social class, et al. This has led to exclusive interest groupings and civil strife of varying intensity throughout the world. Forgotten are the relations to the land, or earth, we share. A forward step would be to look back at the type of societies rooted in egalitarian ways of life. These diverse cultures have been self-sustaining, secure and in harmony for the bulk of history.