Make peace?
General Clark led the military negotiations in 1995 that led to the Dayton Peace Accords at Dayton, Ohio, leading to peace in Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Empower the weak and disenfranchised?
From 1997 to May 2000, General Clark served as Supreme Allied Commander, Europe. During this assignment, General Clark engaged in high-level diplomacy to lead a multinational force in the 1999 Kosovo Conflict. Through his direction, NATO and the United States were able to halt ethnic cleansing in Kosovo and return 1.5 million ethnic Albanians to their homes. This was accomplished without the loss of a single American life.
Bring about justice?
Former NATO commander Wesley Clark told a war crimes tribunal in The Hague, Netherlands, this week that then-Yugoslav leader Slobodan Milosevic knew in 1995 about a planned massacre that killed thousands of Muslims. Clark, an ex-general seeking the Democratic nomination to challenge President Bush next year, delivered two days of dramatic testimony against Milosevic. It was the first confrontation between the two men since a NATO bombing campaign in Serbia in 1999 led to the end of the war in Kosovo.
Defend civil rights and liberties?
Clark filed an amicus brief to the United States Supreme Court in support of the University of Michigan’s affirmative action plan. "We saw the benefits of affirmative action in the United States armed forces. It was essential in restoring the integrity and the effectiveness of the armed forces."
Based on decades of experience, amici have concluded that a highly qualified, racially diverse officer corps educated and trained to command our nation’s racially diverse enlisted ranks is essential to the military’s ability to fulfill its principal mission to provide national security.
Amicus Brief To the United States Supreme Court,
February 19, 2003
"The primary sources for the nation’s officer corps are the service academies and the ROTC, the latter comprised of students already admitted to participating colleges and universities. At present, the military cannot achieve an officer corps that is both highly qualified and racially diverse unless the service academies and the ROTC use limited race-conscious recruiting and admissions policies.
Educate and care for children?
Clark - Excerpt from Testimony
Impact AID before the U.S. House Subcommittee on Education Reform,
November 8, 2001.
Impact aid was designed to reimburse public school districts the full cost of educating the military child attending public or private school off post . . . Currently, there are approximately a half million military dependants who attend school in districts surrounding military bases. Less than 15% of military children are in DoD schools; the rest attend public and private schools off-post.
In my home state of Arkansas, in the vicinity of Little Rock Air Force Base, there are approximately 2500 students who attend school off post. The three school districts are eligible to receive assistance under the federal impact aid program. However, the impact aid program is funded nationally at only around the 60% level. What does this mean for Little Rock?
This means that the three school districts in Little Rock bear a great burden in meeting the educational requirements of each child, both military and civilian. Currently, the three districts receive $575,000 in federal impact aid. If the program were fully funded, the school districts would receive somewhere around $3.8 million. This significant shortfall translates into a decrease in the number and quality of academic and extracurricular programs the schools can provide to its military and civilian children. It also means a decrease in armed forces retention and recruitment, which is cause for great concern.
Such schools tend to suffer from restricted funding and higher than average per pupil cost due to the turnover of students associated with military reassignments. In normal communities, the public schools draw on a diverse tax base and enjoy a relatively stable student population. This stability reduces school stress, disciplinary problems, and the general frictions that are inevitable at the beginning of each school year. Civilian schools with substantial population of military families often suffer from reduced tax base as well as extraordinarily high turn over of students even during the school year.
Excerpt from Statement before The Senate Armed Services,
General Wesley K. Clark, U.S. Army Commander-In-Chief, United States European Command
February 29, 2000
The DoD education system is the 37th largest U.S. public school system, with 160 schools serving 78,000 students. USEUCOM provides logistical support for 111 of these schools and 46,368 students. We should not lose programmed funding for all-day kindergarten. Improved student-to-teacher ratios are also extremely important. Program based staffing is critical to provide a full range of educational opportunity for all of our DoD schools.
Athletics, music, art, and associated after school activities are as critical as the core academic subjects of math, science, history, and English. We must take aggressive action to expand vocational, technical and school-to-work opportunities for our students.
That's what I've found so far there's more....as far as the environment is concerned, Clark is probably the best Environmental Candidate...Check out:
http://www.enviros4clark.com/ 
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