Securing Our Future

Ola Dahlman studied at Lund University, the Royal Institute of Technology and the Defence Collage in Stockholm, He spent his research career at the Swedish Defence Research Agency (FOA) as a scientist anda research director working mainly on CTBT verification. Dahlman then served as the 1 director of two FOA Laboratories and finally, for six years, as the deputy director general of FOA. After retiringfrom FOA i spent a year as a visiting scientist at the EU Joint Research Centre at ISPRA, Italy,working on the concept of resilience. Parallel to his work at FOA I served as an expert to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs engaged ininternational negotiations, primarily on a nuclear test ban. He chaired for 15 years the Group ofScientific Experts at the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva and for 10 years the CompeCTBTO Working group on verification in Vienna. He chaired the CTBTO InternationalScientific Study project and its conference in 2009, which essentially was a large-scale S&Tprocess. Further, he worked for a short time at the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europein Vienna on Container Security  and also co-chaired a three year Strategic Study onBioterrorism with European and Russian bio-experts. Dahlman has co-authored four books; Detect and Deter: Can Countries Verify the Nuclear Test Ban?Springer 2011, Nuclear Test Ban: Converting Political Visions to Reality Springer, 2009, Container Security. A Proposal for a Comprehensive Code of Conduct. National Defense University FortMcNair Washington, 2005, and Monitoring Underground Nuclear Explosions, Elsevier, 1977.

• Introduction.- A new approach to global security.- Part 1 The Earth today and how we got here: The Earth early history.- Development of human societies.- Global population.- Global economy.- Part 2  Engaging Five Global Communities.-  States.- Cities.- Business Community.- Science Community.- Civic Society.- Part 3  Global threats: Natural disasters.- Global warming.- Bio-Pandemics.- Nuclear weapons.- Cyber threat.- Turning a Vision into Actions.