Virtually all national governments in the world today use telecommunication services to store all of their vital information. Some have started utilizing cloud technology. This modern method of data storage and retrieval poses significant risks when its considered on an international scale, as challenges to dealing with the technology range from lack of internet connection to the lack of control and surveillance of existing connections and its consequences, such as inefficient protection of data, privacy, systematic industrial espionage and cyber warfare. Reverting to paper to store all governmental data is no longer an option, so how can nations all around the world ensure that telecommunication can be kept secure at a level fitting state security? 

In the 200-year period from 1816-2010, there has been at least one civil war per year. Armed conflict has a clear impact on the global landscape, yet little effort has ever been made to limit the environmental damages caused by war, with humanitarian aid, security, economic reconstruction and political reconciliation always taking priority. Any agencies that have ever been charged with protecting the environment from the effects of warfare has proven ineffective. External actors attempting to intervene in war zones for the sake of the environment are always faced with the issue of authorities limiting their movement and freedom of action. The ICJ did once suggest that any military movement must be dissolved if environmental damages outweigh military objectives, but this proposal has not been put into effect by most nations. The destruction of the environment from war (deforestation, natural resource depletion, pollution) turns even more people from war zones into refugees as they seek to escape irreversible damages.