DETER ARMED CONFLICTS

by David Nuttle

The doctrine of mutual self-destruction has prevented nations with nuclear weapons from starting nuclear wars. Solutions are urgently needed to help deter other types of armed conflicts. Suggested actions are as follows:

1) Use a legal intervention task force, from the U. N. and ICC, to impose international law to deter armed conflict.

2) Create a U. N. quick reaction peacekeeping force to include a mediation team.

3) Employ an Issues & Causes Research Team under the U. N. or independent body.

4) Reduce the "pool" of angry unemployed/ underemployed youth by providing quality entrepreneurship training and funds for new business starts.

5) Operate a global barter trade program to assist the 1.4 million people using barter trade due to being isolated from regular trade.

6) Expand counter-desertification efforts to grow food and green energy crops on desert lands (1/3rd of all land) to solve global food and energy insecurity. Use carbon sequestration

by these crops to slow the global warming threatening some populations.

7) Develop an extreme "package" of economic & political sanctions to be automatically imposed on any nation attacking another nation without good cause.

8) Create teams of socio-economic development experts to assist developing nations greatly improve such efforts.

9) Train developing nation law enforcement and military units to use civic action (assistance) efforts to gain cooperation of villagers under armed attack by hostile elements.

10) Require war reparations to be paid by the nation starting a war.

11) Deprive a nation starting an armed conflict of the resources needed to sustain same.

12) End the global illegal drug trade by requiring persons addicted to these drugs to convert to use of government provided treatment drugs designed to help end addiction and reduce demand for illegal drugs sold by cartels.

13) Improve the dialog and open diplomacy between nations.

14) Create an Intl. Advocacy Forum, a part of ICC, to have national grievances and have them mitigated.

In brief, we need to be far more creative in how to be effective in stopping armed conflicts. When Russia threatened to attack Ukraine, and gave their reasons for doing so, no si ngle mitigation effort was attempted. The U. N. and POTUS Joe Biden failed.