Former Rector of Police Academy of Latvia

Dear readers, It is my honor and pleasure to provide to your attention a regular issue of international scientific peer-reviewed journal devoted to a wide spectrum of interrelated issues directly affecting a path of our sustainable development. Sustainable development, as the ultimate aim, is complex and can be achieved only through well-balanced implementation of sometimes conflicting activities. Until then, it remains a contentious issue how to tune interests of major stakeholders of sustainable development process. Business companies, which are driving force of economic growth, are seeking for profit, which is vital for their sustainable development. Military security, social safety and environmental stewardship are as well integral components of sustainable development, but they require financial means, which have to be collected through taxes from business companies. Hence right we encounter conflicting interests of sustainable development stakeholders. How to tune different interests avoiding natural tensions, how to recognize new phenomena and interests emerging during the era of information technologies and globalization – those issues still remain under harsh scientific and political discussion and, it seems, will be actively discussed during further several decades. In order to come to mutually beneficial, wise and smart policies thorough discussion appears to be essential. Insights, opinions and worries of stakeholders of sustainable development are a coherent part of complex path t