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The
United Nations
'
High-level Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change
was created in 2003 to analyse threats and challenges to international peace and
security
, and to recommend action based on this analysis.
[1]
It was chaired by former
Prime Minister of Thailand
,
Anand Panyarachun
, and its members included former
United States National Security Advisor
,
Brent Scowcroft
, as well as several former heads of government and foreign ministers as members.
[2]
In December 2004, it produced a report on threats to peace and security.
[2]
Ten threats
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In its 2004 report, the Panel identified ten threats:
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- Poverty
- Infectious disease
- Environmental degradation
- Inter-state
war
- Civil war
- Genocide
- Other
atrocities
(e.g., trade in women and children for
sexual slavery
, or
kidnapping for body parts
)
- Weapons of mass destruction
(
nuclear proliferation
,
chemical weapon proliferation
,
biological weapon proliferation
)
- Terrorism
- Transnational organized crime
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