What is it then that a participant reflects upon as he returns to the less heady realm of his own professional and scholarly activities? First of all, there is conflict. Once the threat of nuclear was rested chiefly in bipolar competition between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. We are now in a multipolar world: infinitely more unpredictable and dangerous, where a lunatic individual could cause as much terror as a whole nation. Institutional arrangements are essential permitting the ebb and flow of conflict. Political geography shows that modern nations are a composite of earlier tribalisms and regional loyalties. Perhaps the same process of increasing consciousness can be expanded to shared responsibility from megalopolitan to global scales. Directly related to this is the issue of population. Anthropos is increasing at the rate of 200,000 more births than deaths a day. Many answers are given by experts, but the main item of consensus appears to be that population will decrease when the lowest-income groups are lifted out of absolute proverty, the darkness of malnutrition, ignorance, and disease.