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 How can humankind overcome militarism? If we can't find an answer, "this may be the last question we ever ask." (Noam Chomsky, July 2022 interview with GSRI) 

GSRI has an answer - embrace of a new global security paradigm! The current one, characterized by a persistent commitment among powerful nations to militarized national security (MNS) policy, is today manifesting itself in perilous military brinkmanship, intensifying proxy fighting, unbridled high-tech arms racing, collapsing arms control, and faltering diplomacy. Tensions swell as the international community again becomes locked into hostile power blocs, setting the stage for a new Cold War with globally catastrophic conflict escalation potential. 

GSRI rejects the MNS security model on the grounds that it is irreparably dysfunctional, gravely dangerous and ultimately unsustainable. The primitive might-makes-right logic of militarism no longer applies in the age of mutually-devastating modern warfare. MNS policy serves to protract and aggravate disputes, not resolve them, fueling a perpetual security dilemma and creating gratuitous risk of disastrous conflict. The first Cold War featured a long list of narrowly-averted catastrophes. The peril of a second is only compounded by new weaponry, further destabilizing escalation management and making inadvertant war all the more likely. Living under this constant risk is unsustainable. 

Drawing from the climate movement's efforts to transition away from a carbon-intensive economic model, GSRI promotes transition away from the MNS security model to a more effective and sustainable paradigm rooted in internationalized security management and non-violent dispute resolution. Join us in this quest!