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Peace, War & Security Problems and Solutions
The following are a list of peace, war & security problems and solutions. Click on a heading to read the full description of the problem, add a solution or comment, and rate the problem. Submit a new peace, war & security problem by clicking on the Post Problem button. The most popular peace, war & security problems are listed first. Voting on a problem may move it up or down on the list.6 21
  Organized crimeSolutions (2)Organized crime are acts carried out for profit or power, by more than two people acting together over a long or indeterminate period, through the abuse of commercial structures, the use of violence o... 4 14
Drug smugglingComments (1)Drug smuggling is the illegal transportation of prohibited narcotics from one country to another in violation of customs legislation. It is widespread because of the huge profits being made. There are... 10 18
Quiet Hybrids Pose Safety Threat to Blind Pedestrians and ChildrenSolutions (13) Comments (2)Newer hybrid cars are practically silent and dangerous to blind pedestrians, cyclists, pets, and others, who depend on sound to alert them to oncoming traffic. The initial response from advocates for... 1 9
Trafficking in children for adoptionChildren are 'adopted' for a price by wealthy families or brothels. Families are sometimes separated for purposes of adoption. In particular, younger women and the populations of Third World countries...2 9
Private international arms dealersPrivate arms dealers facilitate sale of arms to governments or other groups, either by acting as agents for manufacturers, or by obtaining their arms directly from manufacturers in the supplying count...3 10
CrimeSolutions (2)Crime, on the increase throughout the world, includes both personal attacks (assaults, theft, muggings) and transnational offenses (diplomat kidnappings, airplane hijackings, drug trafficking), leadin... 2 8
Criminalization of sexual relations out of wedlockNobody denies that President Clinton's affair with Monica Lewinsky was wrong To say that president Clinton's did wrong when he had a relation with Monica Lewinsky requires a set of assumptions. The u...4 10
Armed robberyNeglecting national variations in the basis of statistical estimates, figures from Interpol indicate that in 1990 there were approximately 1,275,000 cases of armed robbery reported from 91 countries w...1 7
12 Captured Ships Anchored off the Coast of Somalia.Solutions (1)November 2008, 12 ships include a tanker with 2 million barrels of oil. 6 12
Biological warfareSolutions (2)Bacteriological or biological agents of warfare are living organisms (or infective material derived from them) which are intended to cause disease or death in animals, plants, or man, and which depend... 8 14
Violent sports fansSolutions (3)Wherever team sports are played, violence among the spectators is increasing, resulting in extensive damage to property and in injuries and death not only to those involved but often also to innocent ... 3 8
Peace One DayPeaceOneDay.org is a movement of people who are promoting one day of peace each year where all conflicts and fighting stops for just one day. That day is September 21st. The problem is: how to get t...1 6
Illicit trade in prescribed drugsThere is a rapid expansion of the underworld trade and abuse of so-called mood-shaping drugs. These chemical compounds are manufactured on a massive scale, largely in the great drug laboratories of th...30 34
Computer-based crimeSolutions (6) Comments (1)Computers facilitate the theft of money and property and the destruction of data when there are inadequate controls against their misuse. Crimes perpetrated by unauthorized access to keyboards, termin... 4 8
Racially motivated crimeSolutions (1) Comments (1)Racially aggravated offences include racist violence, harassment and criminal damage. Racially motivated crime does not simply injure the victim or their property, it affects the whole of the victim's... 1 5
BurglaryBurglary is surreptitiously entering or remaining in a building with the intent of committing a crime, whether theft, rape, robbery or kidnapping. Neglecting national variations in the basis of stati...6 9
Illegal ivory tradeSolutions (1)Poaching elephants for their ivory is profitable because the price of ivory has risen from about $50 per kilo to nearly $300 per kilo. Around 94% of all the ivory being traded internationally if from ... 1 4
Competitive development of new weaponsMilitary research and development is concerned with stimulating the advancement of scientific knowledge and cultivating technical progress for military purposes. It is immediately directed, for the mo...1 4
HomicideSolutions (1) Comments (1)Homicide can be criminal (murder and manslaughter) or non-criminal (executions authorized by civil or military authorities and killing by police authorities to prevent commission of a felony); but non... 1 4
Child pornographyThe use of children as sex objects in adult pornography is indecent, unnatural and abusive of the child Every country's obscenity laws appear questionable to those in other cultures. In the USA, if s...2 5
Archaeological and anthropological lootingArchaeological sites may be excavated clandestinely to obtain objects and relics for sale on the art market or to museums. Such looting of sites destroys their value as a source of information on the ...4 6
International arms tradeSolutions (2)The international traffic in arms consists mainly of arms sales between governments or between government controlled firms and other governments. The traffic facilitates arms races in certain regions ... 3 5
Illegal trade in diamondsSolutions (1)The illegal trade in diamonds and other precious stones is a key factor fuelling a number of conflicts, posing a special challenge to combating illicit trafficking and the activities of organised crim... 2 4
Piracy at seaSolutions (2)Piracy may range from attacks on refugees boats from South East Asia, through theft of cargoes, to seizure of ships. The original crew and any passengers, may be allowed to survive or may be killed. P... 4 6
Uneven Deterrant to CrimeSolutions (2)It is proven and known that jail time ( and execution) are deterrents to crime. The problem is that across the US, ( as well as across the world) different states have different amounts of jail time ... 20 22
Cultivation of illegal drugsSolutions (3)A farmer may begin producing illicit narcotic plants under the threat of violence from criminal traffickers or as a means of supplementing farm income. Cultivation of drug plants is financially more r... 2 4
Credit card fraudSolutions (2)In the UK, the annual cost of credit card fraud was estimated to have risen from £50 million in 1989 to £165 million in 1993. In 1992, two million cards were list or stolen in the UK. In t... 0 2
War and Unrest in AfghanistanSolutions (3)Nearly eight years after the United States entered Afghanistan, the situation continues to be unstable, the war drags on, the central government has little power, corruption is rampant, warlords have ... 1 3
Crimes against humanitySolutions (1)Crimes against humanity include acts committed against a group and inhumane acts committed against any civilian population. In this respect crimes against humanity is the wider concept, including in i... 3 5
Nuclear terrorismNuclear weapons are becoming smaller, deadlier and more precise. Information on their fabrication and use is more readily available. Many weapons can be relatively easily constructed by hobbyists or t...2 4
Car jackingSolutions (1) Comments (1)Car-jacking is the forced theft of private motor vehicles from their drivers, similar to high-jacking of an airplane. The thief may pose as a hitchhiker or a lost pedestrian asking for directions. Thr... 1 3
Illegal international arms shipmentsSolutions (1)Shipments of weapons are made illegally by governments and private arms dealers. Government shipments are sometimes covert military assistance and may break international treaties. Illegal private arm... 4 6
TerrorismTerrorism can be defined as (a) indiscriminate military violence or as (b) indiscriminate military violence by non-state organizations such as revolutionary movements or resistance or, as it is usuall...3 4
ArsonSolutions (1)Arson is the intentional burning of property, namely the dwelling house or business premises of another. The most usual motives for intentionally burning property are to collect fire insurance; to con... 1 2
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Inadequate disaster prevention and mitigationSolutions (1)The severity of disasters caused by natural phenomena could be largely mitigated, and the actual occurrence of disasters caused by inappropriate human activities could be prevented, if adequate measur... 7 8
Violence on screenSolutions (4) Comments (1)The risks of viewing the most common depictions of televised violence include learning to behave violently, becoming more desensitized to the harmful effects of violence, and becoming more fearful of ... 0 1
Cluster MunitionsSolutions (2)The name makes them sound like ultra-compact, large-impact bombs. Large-impact they are - but not because they hit one precise target with a major blast but rather because they explode into sometimes... 0 1
Biologically determined aggressionIn some very real sense violence is embodied in the human genetic/evolutionary legacy as is evidenced by its frequent manifestation in the human species as well as in others. Although the complex outc...3 3
Refuse/Rubbish Bin Fire PreventionSolutions (3)Rubish Bin fires are a problem across the globe and especially in the UK. One in six call-outs for fire crews is a wheelie bin fire. Recent research shows that it takes just 70 seconds for flames fr... 2 2
Anti-personnel bombs, Land MinesAnti-personnel mines are designed to wound and permanently disable people. Children are usually killed due to their small size. Often, they are strewn over large areas as armies depart. Being small, t...3 3
Chemical warfareChemical agents of warfare include all gaseous, liquid or solid chemical substances which might be employed because of their direct toxic effects on man and animals. (This excludes substances whose ef...2 2
BioterrorismSix bioagents are commonly classified as class A agents, meaning that they could cause sufficient morbidity and mortality to seriously compromise the function of a city or other large area. These are...2 2
OverpopulationSolutions (3) Comments (1)How do you get our major religions to reverse their stand on birth control? In Islam, Catholicism, Mormonism, and other fundamentalist religions, birth control is a sin. While Mexico, Central Americ... 3 2
Contamination of public water supplies by sabotageWater supplies may be deliberately contaminated with chemical or biological agents. This may be done by aerial attack or by sabotage on the ground by introducing the agent into the water source at the...3 1
Rape as a Weapon of War in the DRCSolutions (6)In the Democratic Republic of Congo, as in too many communities around the world, rape has been used as a weapon of war. Gang rape is common, with many victims reporting two, three, four, even five a... 7 3
Insufficient mental health service for Iraq war veteransSolutions (1)Soldiers, many of whom did not think they would ever see active duty, come back from Iraq and cannot relate to their families, have nightmares, are unable to work, and report they just aren't the same... 0 0
War JournalismSolutions (5)Several scholars, most famously Johan Galtung, have argued that the standards of journalism in Western society favor a biased "war journalism." In war journalism, the media portrays conflicts as batt... 0 0
Amateur terroristsSolutions (1)Almost anyone can purchase ordinary commercially available materials, fashion them into a crude but nonetheless lethal bomb. All that is needed is the willingness and the motivation to act. Fanatical ... 0 0
Internal Displacement in ColombiaSolutions (4)Internal displacement in Colombia is so severe that U.S. Representative James McGovern has expressed concerns that Colombia's internally displaced persons may well eventually develop into a "permanent... 0 0
International trade in biological weaponsThe <i>Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention</i> bars development and stockpiling of such agents. But that prohibition applies only to states, not private individuals or companies who can legally de...0 0
PiracySolutions (1)Illegal acts of violence, detention or any act of depredation committed outside the jurisdiction of any State, for private ends, by the crew or the passengers of a private ship or a private aircraft i... 0 0
Accessing non obvious technology for military usefulnessObviously, technology like nuclear power, radar, explosives, guns, gps and radios have military applications. My question is are their technologies that are either around or being developed that have...0 0
Dismantling of nuclear weaponsSolutions (2)Obsolete nuclear warhead contain fissionable materials: plutonium and highly enriched uranium. These are long-lived and dangerous substances. The Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties (START I was signed ... Notify me of New Entries on this PageYou can receive an email whenever a new problem is added to this category. You can unsubscribe at any time. |
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