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Among the twelve commitments outlined, enhanced democratic governance, commitment to a rules-based international order, increased partnerships with diverse stakeholders, and greater transparency represent important steps towards an enhanced and more effective United Nations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1624572950761-6P0FL3ACREF0P722766V/WhatsApp+Image+2021-06-24+at+1.54.47+PM.jpeg Resources - Turning Point for All Nations Turning Point For All Nations was a statement issued by the Bahá'í International Community on the occasion of the fiftieth anniversary of the United Nations Organization, in October 1995. The statement is based on three initial propositions. First, discussions about the future of the United Nations need to take place within the broad context of the evolution of the international order and its direction. Second, since the body of humankind is one and indivisible, each member of the human race is born into the world as a trust of the whole. Third, the discussions about the future of the international order must involve and excite the generality of humankind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1624568405251-JFVUJT4AALFXN8RKNHZW/Screen+Shot+2021-06-24+at+4.59.59+PM.png Resources - Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century The authors of this book suggest that the principles of sensible governance that exist in well-governed national systems be implemented on the international level in order to respond to humanity’s increasingly interconnected challenges. Among such principles include the rule of law and legislation in the common interest, with an executive branch and courts to respectively implement and enforce such legislation. It highlights how collective action, shared values, and accepted international principles would effectively advance universal human prosperity and well-being. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1624553151198-V43N0WNSARNIZCU0JZ24/Screen+Shot+2021-06-24+at+12.45.47+PM.png Resources - The case for a UN Parliamentary Assembly and the Inter-Parliamentary Union This policy review highlights the need for a new vision of a democratic world order based on shared global sovereignty for global issues. 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While the global community has made some efforts to protect victims, now is the time for the United Nations, Member States, and organs of civil society to take bold steps to aid women who are abused, to punish perpetrators, and to prevent violence in the first place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/c673a7b1-0113-4fb1-912a-b1077f06edad/karaman.jpg Dialogue - Toward Gender-Equal Global Governance: The Role of Culture By Suzan Karaman The equality of men and women is a fundamental truth of human existence. A more effective and principled global order depends on translating this truth into reality. Yet doing so has been a formidable challenge. … Transforming attitudes at the level of culture will be critical in bringing the full expression of women’s capacities to the collective affairs of humankind. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1634238079692-8CNULDSRK9HSMWYV062Q/aglaonema.jpeg Dialogue - A Governance Befitting: Catalysed by Youth Committing By Shidan Javaheri Increasingly turbulent conditions in the world have intensified the urgency to establish a truly united global order. A Governance Befitting aptly recognizes that periods of turmoil present opportunities for “marked social change.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1629213834582-6HL2R68RZT81XLJ4NJX3/Giving+-+Siew-Huat+Kong Dialogue - ‘Giving’ as a Foundation for Global Governance By Siew-Huat Kong The statement A Governance Befitting reminds us that “periods of turbulence have presented opportunities to redefine collective values and the assumptions that underlie them.” The global pandemic has done just that… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ec321c2af33de48734cc929/1589847805828-AJIWBELW8MFMGSFE5CQ2/image-asset.jpeg Dialogue - Rethinking Inclusivity for a Maturing World By Liliane Nkunzimana Today, integrative processes are bringing diverse peoples across the world into closer contact with one another, creating opportunities—previously inconceivable—to collaborate, exchange information, and share knowledge… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1624467025703-2Q1SYV6GFUOTPRB0XU3H/image-asset.jpg Dialogue - Economic Governance in a Post-Covid World By Augusto Lopez-Claros The COVID-19 crisis is the largest shock to the global economy since the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The impact has been highly destabilising and global in scope. Perhaps no statistic captures more eloquently its welfare costs than that for the first time in three decades in 2020 we saw a sharp increase in the number of people classified by the World Bank as “extremely poor.” About 120 million people joined the ranks of the very poor, a reversal likely to continue in 2021, the incipient economic recovery notwithstanding… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1631824013930-KA3O0KMGNUCAV3QWQPGD/Resonance.jpeg Dialogue - The Power of Imagination: One People in a Shared Homeland By Temily Tavangar A Governance Befitting is a sobering yet hopeful wake-up call to the real and urgent challenges that face humanity in its current state of global interdependence. How, it asks, do we redefine our collective values in the face of present turbulence? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/c64a459a-92db-451e-a4d6-ed52826bff45/unsplash-image-6jYoil2GhVk.jpg Dialogue - Educational Purpose and Governance in an Interconnected World By Elena Toukan Over the past 75 years, the international community has made remarkable efforts to extend access to education around the world through a spirit of shared commitment and cooperation. The accelerating challenges facing humanity and the planet, however, provoke urgent questions. What kind of education is needed to establish just, peaceful, and prosperous societies for all? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/18a62a29-f3ef-4dac-81b0-10f5ef826fb3/Clarity.jpeg Dialogue - Towards a Culture of Encounter Inclusive of the World’s Religious Traditions By Philip McDonagh, Kishan Manocha, Lucia Vázquez Mendoza, and John Neary In our globalised 21st century, we have reached a point of inflection in the human story. One way or another, our policy responses will depend on the lens through which we see reality. How do we see the relationship between the citizen and the state? How do we measure the economy? Is building community compatible with individuals advancing their own self-interests? Should we protect the vulnerable? Are we global citizens? What position do we take on questions concerning human origins, human destiny, and our place within nature? In thinking about politics, how do we answer the basic questions: who, where, how, why, and when? https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/317d7807-a996-4cfc-bccb-a5475f0e2eef/Congo+2013-09-247.jpeg Dialogue - Unpacking Interconnectedness: The Experience of ‘Creating an Inclusive Narrative’ By Ida Walker The COVID-19 pandemic has impelled people around the globe to reflect on the character of the societies in which they live and the world we share. It has raised fundamental questions about individual and national identity that will remain relevant long after the most acute effects of the pandemic have receded. As the Governance Befitting statement noted, “rapidly shifting global realities” are prompting “a deeper appreciation of humanity’s interconnection and interdependence.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1624637204733-GGC7ZRQB2JGVY9J2SJD8/Windows.jpg Dialogue - A Governance Befitting - Implications for Europe By Maximillian Afnan The 75th anniversary of the establishment of the United Nations, a milestone reached against the background of a devastating global health crisis, is spurring conversations about the purpose and design of arrangements for international cooperation… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1624637150632-U5I95U4N564KGONB21W4/House+of+Abdu%27l-Baha.jpg Dialogue - Time for the Vision and Commitment Necessary for Deeper Global Cooperation By Daniel Perell The Governance Befitting statement notes that global realities require expanded integration and coordination among the nations—that “The only viable way forward lies in a system of deepening global cooperation.” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1624464280048-HZ1Z2TL35SHOLOUYBANE/WhatsApp+Image+2020-09-22+at+1.56.17+PM.jpeg Dialogue - Institutional Processes Toward Effective Global Governance By Andy Tamas The Baha’i International Community’s statement on the 75th anniversary of the United Nations begins by noting how evolving global realities are prompting a deeper appreciation of humanity’s interconnection and interdependence… https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/1651149506119-SWD9GVWMMYUSSECG1HOK/unsplash-image-LCtwtvfkn90.jpg Dialogue - Our collective moment of reckoning By Arash Fazli Over the past few years, humanity has been forced to adapt to an unprecedented state of global uncertainty, arising from multiple, interlocking crises. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/60a52d8802207048ad2ac57b/cddb7a44-f050-4fab-a1e7-f20f8d2fd4a2/women%27s+leadership+%28Menu+%28Landscape%29%29+%282%29.png Dialogue - Reorganizing the Women’s Movement for the Next Steps Forward By Saphira Rameshfar Governance at the international level will require new systems and structures that are more suited to the challenges facing humanity today. But advances in the operation of those systems—the way we human beings function within them—will be equally important.