The UN is so much more than you know
Today during my seminar for my European Politics module we were comparing the EU to other international institutions, such as the UN. A person in my class came with the statement that the UN is deadlocked due to the Security Council and therefore is very ineffective in different situations. My teacher, whom is very good by the way, reminded this person that he was only refering to 'high security' issues. My techer went on to saying that one has to remember the so-called 'low security' issues as well. I really, really like this comment cause I always get very frustrated when someone makes the general claim that "the UN isn't working." Do they know what the UN is? What it does? Or does their knowledge about the UN stop when issues regarding anything else than what the media reports on is discussed? What everyone hear's is that the Security Council is deadlocked due to the veto by the permanent five (US, UK, France, Russia, China). Do this people know that the UN serves as an umbrella organization for so many smaller ones? Do they know how much time and effort people around the world put into small local organization that promotes the UN and world issues? Are they forgetting about UNICEF? Or the World Food Program?
I just get very annoyed when people make generalisations like that without considering everything the UN does. The enormous job that is being undertaken by them and the thousands of volunteers that are working every day to help make the world a better place. How condescending isn't it to those to say that "the UN doesn't work?" I agree that the Security Council is not working to its full potential, but if you criticise, then come up with a better solution! What would you have instead? Exactly.. Didn't think so.
And just so you know, this new world is scaring me. A world where companies act as police, where governments want to monitor everything we do on the internet, where certain states wants to keep record of other states populations travelling. What happened? When did we all become so suspicious and stopped trusting eachother?
I just get very annoyed when people make generalisations like that without considering everything the UN does. The enormous job that is being undertaken by them and the thousands of volunteers that are working every day to help make the world a better place. How condescending isn't it to those to say that "the UN doesn't work?" I agree that the Security Council is not working to its full potential, but if you criticise, then come up with a better solution! What would you have instead? Exactly.. Didn't think so.
And just so you know, this new world is scaring me. A world where companies act as police, where governments want to monitor everything we do on the internet, where certain states wants to keep record of other states populations travelling. What happened? When did we all become so suspicious and stopped trusting eachother?
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