Stuart Hart States Sustainable Development Can Provide Opportunities For The BOP

Ali Goheer - 5 November, 2007 Format for printing

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So I find it actually quite interesting that in the US now, you see in the government more and more interested in this idea, the Army War College and the Pacific Command has a program on addressing the root cause of terrorism. The state department has a new program called economic empowerment for strategic regions and to me the only way we come to grips with this ultimately is through sustainable development, right. That a sustainable form of development that again embraces the entire human community is the only long term way to address this. You look at most of the Middle East, look at Palestine, it's 50% unemployment. Egypt churning university graduates out, doctors and lawyers, there are no jobs, right. They're waiting tables and doing day labor, that's humiliating, right. So a lot of this has to do with creating options and opportunities and again I think that's what sustainable development is all about.