This is the annual volume in a continuing UNESCO series that addresses a range of issues in the field of peace and conflict resolution. It provides an up-to-date overview of research on disarmament within the social sciences as well as background information to the new thinking about global security that emerged in 1988 and which has spurred the relaxing of international tensions. The volume also presents an invaluable comparison of viewpoints on the post-Cold War future and on the linking of disarmament to development issues. Changes in enemy perception, the problems of conversion (both economic and psychological) from military to peaceful production, and the growing danger of non-military threats to peace are among the phenomena analyzed here by a group of the world's leading scholars of peace and conflict studies. Information and insights into current conditions and a survey of the potential problems that could negatively affect the evolution of the new thinking and common security ideologies are offered by each author in chapters that represent important contributions to the discourse and discussion on peace and conflict.

Following an introductory chapter that places the individual articles of the Yearbook in the context of the new thinking, Anatoli Leonidovich Adamichin demonstrates how the new thinking of Soviet policy makers is already reversing dangerous elements of the Cold War--a fact underlined by recent events in Eastern Bloc countries. The concepts of creative space and creative internationalism are investigated by Robert C. Johansen in his article on U.S.-Soviet security. K. Subrahmanyam considers disarmament and development, focusing on the imperatives of the interdependence of issues and peoples, and Hans Gunter Brauch surveys recent and on-going international research on disarmament in the social and human sciences. Chapters on regional developments and on the Unesco peace and disarmament programs complete the volume. For researchers, teachers, and students of peace and conflict resolution, this review of basic concepts, issues, and literature is an essential tool. Activists, concerned general readers, government and political leaders, and members of the diplomatic corps will find it not only factual but a source of inspiration and an incentive to practical action in the promotion of peace and security.

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Preface Introduction The Policy of "New Thinking" and Disarmament The Settlement of Conflict Situations in the Light of New Political Thinking--A Soviet Point of View by Anatoli Leonidovich Adamichin United States-Soviet Security Enhancement by Robert C. Johansen Disarmament and Development Institutional Measures for the International Reallocation of Resources from Armament to Development by K. Subrahmanyam International Research on Disarmament Survey of Recent and On-going Research in the Social and Human Sciences on Disarmament by Hans Günter Brauch Regional Developments Obituary: Sean MacBride Report from the International Social Science Council (ISSC) Summary of the Programme of Activities of the United Nations Regional Centre for Peace and Disarmament in Africa, Lomé, Togo, for 1989-1990 by Sammy Kum Buo, Director Society for the Promotion of Peace in Nigeria Okorie Kalu, Director York University Centre for International and Strategic Studies Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) Research Programme, 1987-1990 United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) by Jayantha Dhanapala, Director Richardson Institute for Peace Studies Unesco Programme on Peace and Disarmament Index