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British ethics professor Jonathan Glover proposed the establishment of an effective global “policing” organization during his presentation of the 2002 Frederick Atherton Lecture yesterday afternoon in Harvard Hall...
...Glover, who is professor of ethics and director of the Centre of Medical Law and Ethics at King’s College, London, suggested that low esteem can foment violent impulses both among groups that are oppressed and groups that act as oppressors...
Applying his conclusions to global violence, he said that a single organization devoted to quelling worldwide conflict would ultimately improve political stability between nations. Glover cited present organizations devoted to maintaining worldwide peace, such as the United Nations, as insufficiently effective...
Even national action which seems morally and politically justified, Glover said, might engender enmity...
...establishment of a global authority, Glover said, would help to quell the danger of sustaining violent vendettas...