Opening Address, ACUNS 17th Annual Meeting

Author(s): 
Pages: 
10
Item Reference: 
O-2004/17
Publication Date: 
2004
Publication Place: 
Bruges
Publication Language: 
EN
Publisher: 
UNU Institute on Regional Integration Studies
Series Title: 
UNU-CRIS Occasional Papers
Abstract: 

Throughout history, human societies of every kind have sought, above all, to ensure their own safety. The building of an ‘architecture of peace’ has become the institutional aspiration through which humanity might avoid warfare and live together in a secure and dignified order. In the modern era of the past four centuries, nation-states have sought, in various ways, to construct that architecture.