| Abstract: | It is increasingly important to take international action for the avoidance of war and for the safeguarding of the human environment. For this there must be appropriate institutions and patterns of communication whose necessity and purposes are widely understood. This in turn presupposes building an increasing world dimension into school and university studies; otherwise coming generations will not be prepared for the world in which they will be living. For this a framework of concepts and ideas is needed, which have been adumbrated in the years since the Second World War, although there is a great need for clearer and more forceful thinking. We have to know what we wish to do and why it has become necessary. When this has been done we shall be in a better position to deal with the practical question of how our aims can be accomplished. |
