Thought and Action to Date Towards a Conceptual Framework-Four Position Papers

Disarmament and development have in the past been treated as two separate subject areas . Each one has been pursued in its own right, at the political level as well as in terms of research. This was, for instance, reflected in two separate UN Resolutions for the 1970s, one calling for the Disarmament Decade and the other for the Second Development Decade . At the research level, disarmament has been incorporated as an integral part in only a few 'world order studies' published in the 1970s; in the RIO Report 'arms reduction' was covered in one of the ten major sections each of which was devoted to one major problem area.