Mr. Joe Noonan:

As I mentioned earlier, we sometimes underestimate the quality and potential of Ireland's role. The world as it is is looking for alternative models. I think the old ways are going. They are seen as destructive and self-destructive. We need to build on what we have. In my paper I quote Michèle Griffin from a conference in Dublin Castle a few years ago. In answer to the question as to what the real threats were, she shocked everybody by saying that to billions of people the real threats are climate change and gender-based violence. How do we shape the entirety of our society, not just our military, to counter those threats? We really need to question the in-built assumptions and silo-based thinking that we bring to bear on too many problems.