How can we hope to bridge these widening gaps–between haves and have-nots, rhetoric and reality, concern and indifference–that undercut all efforts to address present stark international challenges? In this chapter I draw on proposals in my book A Strategy for Peace: Human Values and the Threat of War for relying on the languages of both strategy and morality, long used separately to consider issues of war and peace and human survival. Both must now be seen as indispensable. We must draw on the traditions of moral as well as strategic reflection to consider how individuals, groups, and nations can best protect common goals of survival and flourishing, in the face of shared risks of unprecedented magnitude; and we can only do so on the basis of fundamental values recognized in both traditions.
