Lack of international policy on specific issues

The international community remains far from any common policy on regional aggression, disaster relief or major abuses of human rights. There is no provision for dealing with anarchical social breakdown (as in Somalia). There is no collective political will to act. Existing mechanisms of common action (such as the United Nations) are discredited by the effectiveness of the acts of defiance of those who disturb the peace.

1. Policy vacuum
2. Inadequate global policy-making

1. Non-global priorities for use of world resources
2. Lack of indigenous environmental rights
3. Lack of consensus in regional disputes
4. Ineffectual environmental policy
5. Inadequate global consensus concerning problems and prospects of humanity
6. Fragmented social structures for environmental protection
7. Fragmentation of environmental law
8. Conflicting interpretations of universal human rights
9. Absence of policies to associate international nongovernmental organizations in regional development

1. Uncertain environmental impact of current policy
2. Regional tensions
3. Limited acceptance of human rights treaties
4. Inadequate implementation of plans and programmes against problems
5. Abandonment by the international community

1. Uncoordinated policy-making
2. Conflicting international priorities

1. Inadequate environmental awareness

1. Reaching policy consensus on human rights abuses
2. Reaching consensus on environmental hazards
3. Providing sufficient international policy on specific issues
4. Needing consensus on international policy
5. Integrating international policy
6. Establishing global governmental responsibility
7. Developing common policy on regional aggression
8. Building administrative structures for sustainable development
9. Appeasing aggression
10. Abstaining from international policy on specific issues

1. Abuse
2. Absence
3. Hazard
4. Lack
5. Fragmentation
6. Aggression