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.

Biological, Chemical and Conventional Disarmament

Creating a world free from weapons is another great challenge of the 21st century. The current threats of terrorism and the daily carnage from small arms, mines and bombs highlight the need to move forward in these areas. Nuremberg Chief Prosecutor Robert H. Jackson stated that the crime which includes all lesser crimes is the initiation of an illegal war...

What can be done to highlight the implementation deficit of existing conventional arms agreements? How can we expose the hypocrisy of the continuing arms trade by major countries? What steps need to be taken at all levels - from the personal to the global - to bring about major changes in public opinion and vigorous initiatives towards disarming the world? How can the UN peace-keeping powers and the ICC be strengthened?