Global Challenges
The challenges we face are considerable: from rethinking our relationship with the environment, and the wide-reaching implications this has, to tackling the persistent inequalities and injustices that characterise our relationships with each other. The WFC has identified 24 key issues that it will seek to address. With each campaign the WFC will highlight the connections between these areas, and aim to integrate them into its policy recommendations.The global challenges can be roughly grouped into three categories:
Environment

The key global challenges grouped together in this category concern our relationship with the planet that supports us. With limited natural resources, an increasingly urbanised and ever-growing population, and the looming threat of irreversible climate change, the need to reconsider the way we interact with our environment has never been more pressing. Paramount to this is the acknowledgement that we are a part of the global ecosystem and not its rulers.

Social Issues

The key global challenges grouped together in this category are concerned with ensuring that people across the world can lead healthy and fulfilled lives. This involves embracing the diversity of human traits and capabilities, and acknowledging that we are all equal and yet distinct.

Economics and Politics

The key global challenges grouped together in this category are concerned with the organisation of human societies and the relationships between them. This involves fair and peaceful exchange, and an equitable distribution of costs and benefits in the creation of global welfare.

Peace Education and Conflict Healing

In a crowded and individualistic world, peaceful living together is not easy. We have lost the basic trust and connectedness through faith which our ancestors felt, and we often feel threatened by changes we don't understand. Conflicts are easy to start and hard to heal. Many techniques have been developed to stop conflicts from turning violent, yet few people are aware of these. Best practices should be highlighted yet don't get adequate attention in the media.

Which electoral system strikes the best balance between minority and majority rights - and obligations? How can peaceful co-existence best be taught? How can the media be used in conflict healing? At what stage of a peace process are causes of conflict best focused upon? What are the optimum times and methods for outside intervention? What role can truth and reconciliation commissions play?