Online published on 22 June, 2015.
The United Nations must expand its role and shift focus from the prevention or containment of military conflict to the achievement of comprehensive global peace by ensuring the satisfaction of basic needs for the poorest sectors of humanity. True peace will only be achieved when all people have enough to eat and live decently. To that end the waste and misuse of resources that are now so conspicuous in richer countries must be stopped so that effective redistribution may take place.