Symposium on the Relationship Between Disarmament and Development

Download or read book Symposium on the Relationship Between Disarmament and Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the central challenges in examining the relationship between disarmament and development could be summarized in the words of the Johannesburg Declaration on Sustainable Development which stated: "The deep fault line that divides human society between the rich and the poor and the ever-increasing gap between the developed and developing worlds pose a major threat to global prosperity, security and stability." The United Nations is reviewing the relationship between disarmament and development after a lapse of more than twenty years.