Where Now for European Social Democracy? - Policy Network

DAVID BLUNKETT 83who are starving not only to eat, but to share in wider prosperity. Weneed to understand, and then heal the world, to set aside the causesof hate and bitterness. This is therefore a challenge not merely ofdamping the flames that would engulf us, but of seeking a post-conflictworld which reconstructs the civil and political processes whichgenerate good governance and self-governance.How those across the world who are dispossessed, disillusioned,and disenfranchised see countries like ourselves in the future willdepend on how we turn stability and security into prosperity, and howwe share the benefits as well as the burdens of that security andprosperity. Those who are misled or deluded by terrorism, by roguestates and by those who wish to exacerbate divisions, need a widerroad map that they can see will lead them to a better tomorrow. It isour security in the long run as well as theirs that we seek to achieve.