The World in 2030 - Professor Paul Rogers

The UK's leading forum for international politics and global issues, founded in 1980. The World in 2030 - Professor Paul Rogers Paul Rogers is an Emeritus Professor of Peace Studies at the University of Bradford, and is a valued member of the Keele World Affairs Advisory Panel. Paul Rogers works in the field of international security and political violence with a particular interest in conflict prevention. He has a long-term interest in the changing drivers of international conflict, especially the connection between socioeconomic marginalisation, climate disruption and security. For over forty years he has lectured at senior UK defence colleges including the Royal College of Defence Studies. For two decades he was Global Security Consultant to the Oxford Research Group and wrote a series of influential reports following the 9/11 attacks. With new wars, extreme populist movements, climate breakdown, poverty, inequality and exclusion; there is a sense of unease, that ‘things are falling apart’, which is reflected both in global insecurity; a seeming failure to effectively negotiate or mediate in desperate wars (Ukraine, Sudan. Gaza) and a dismay at social injustice and rising poverty. Paul Rogers argues that responding to the prospect of ‘a crowded glowering world‘, there are three questions to answer: • Can we come to terms with the environmental limits to growth in time? • Can we transform the world economy to ensure that there is far better sharing of what we have? • Can we change our understanding and practice of international security to focus on a human security approach that works for all, not just a minority elite?