● Cooperative security is a way of dealing with the non-traditional that requires cooperation rather than military confrontation.

● Military forces play an important role in combating terrorism and enforcing human rights but it does not help a lot to alleviate poverty, manage migration and refugee movements, and control epidemics.

● Cooperation may be between two countries or bilateral, regional, continental or global.

● The type of cooperation depends on the nature of the threat and the willingness and the abilities of the countries to respond.

● It may also involve both National and international organizations such as the United Nations, the World Bank, the World Health Organisation, etc.

● It may also involve nondevelopment organizations, businesses and corporations, and even great personalities such as Mother Teresa and Nelson Mandela.

● Cooperative security uses the concept of force as a last resort.

● The international community may have to sanction the use of force to deal with the governments that kill their own people who are devastated by poverty and catastrophic conditions.

● It may have to agree to the use of violence against International terrorists and those who harbour them.

● Non-traditional security is secured in a better way when applied collectively by the everybody International community rather than when applied by an individual country.