Dear Editor,
Foment. A word
defined as “A verb used with objects. To instigate or foster (discord, rebellion, etc.); promote the growth or development of:”
“Foment terror”. These two words concluded the Washington
Post’s subtitle to “Attacks in Paris expose European security flaws” (front
page 11-29-15). They were used with the ‘objects’ “Intelligence breakdown,
radicalization and open borders” in the same subtitle.
If lives really matter, headline
words to prevent the future loss of lives should matter too.
Do the three objects in the Post’s
subtitle really ‘promote the growth or development of “terror”? Or, do they reflect the consequences of the
fundamental flaws cemented into the system of global governance’ that a few
nations agreed to after the end of World War II? For seventy years the United Nations’ system
of international law has fostered global lawlessness and injustices that really
underlie the security of Europe and the rest of the world.
A report released this summer by
the Commission on Global Security, Justice and Governance (co-chaired by Madeline
Albright and Ibrahim Gambari) offers 85
recommendations to strengthen the post war’s flawed structures and systems that
perpetuate with immunity the many local injustices that ultimately have global
security consequences. If Europe, the United States and the rest of the world’s
people truly seek sustainable security they will give each of these
recommendations serious and swift attention.
In the context rapidly escalating
global violence and environmental degradation the Commission’s grand proposal
for a “World Conference on Global Institutions” for the year 2020 (the 75th
anniversary of the UN) seems to lack urgency.
This December 10th is
the anniversary of the creation of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a
profound document intended to prevent future conflict and offer fundamental
freedoms to all the world’s people. It’s
past time to reconsider this document’s rational and take solid steps in
putting the global protection of human rights, over the rights of nations to
employ unjust policies whenever their leaders believe it is in their
interest.
Real efforts to construct
institutions for global justice would put most of humanity on our side. Time is not.
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(the views expressed above are mine
and not necessarily the views of the UNACO)
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