Write a note on Cooperative Security.

(i) Non-traditional threats such as global warming, bird flue - require cooperation rather military confrontation. These threats can not be faced by any single country. For example, the threat of global warming and epidemics can not be solved by any individual country.

(ii)Cooperative security may also involve a variety of other players, both national and International Organisations – the UN, World Health Organisation, the World Bank and other institutions – also play a significant role in cooperative security.

(iii) Non-governmental Organisations – Amnesty International, the Red Cross etc. play an important role in it. Great personalities like Mother Teresa, Nelson Mandela are also involved in it.

(iv) The international community have to sanction the use of force is used as a last resort to deal with governments that kill their own people or ignore the miseries of their poor population who are devastated by poverty, disease and catastrophe.