This is the first volume on the subject of the alleviation of world suffering. At the same time
it is also the first book framing the fields of global socio-economic development world health
human rights peace studies sustainability and poverty within the challenge of alleviating
suffering and improving quality of life. Both international studies and global development have
become specialized and fragmented whereas this work assembles all of these development
fragments together in order to determine whether common ground exists to make headway in
reducing global suffering. Leading experts in these various fields of development and suffering
have been recruited worldwide to give scholarly assessments of the major human problems and how
they can be successfully tackled.
