IT DOESN'T SEEM THAT THE U.N. HAS BEEN GETTING ANYTHING DONE.
*DISCLAIMER:* I'm really only educated on the U.N.'s progress regarding food security, so what I say here only pertains to that aspect of the U.N.
We spent this week looking at different resolutions regarding food security. (You can find my relevant documents here, and here:)
We looked through the official U.N. documents passed through the years, and the things they did to help resolve the issue of poverty. (Or rather, what they did to do absolutely nothing about poverty.) The most notable of these was the Millennium Development Goals. They are as follows:
Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
The U.N. didn't achieve these goals, and through my research, I feel that I know why. If you were so kind as to look at the documents I linked above, all of the resolutions have something quite peculiar in common. They're all the same damn thing. The documents reference each other, ex: “... fully realize the Millennium Development Goal 1, and the 1996 Food Summit ..” Perhaps this means whatever those documents aimed to do, and their strategies didn’t work? If they didn't work, why does the U.N. keep passing what is essentially the same document, if the basis for action detailed in the document doesn't work?
We spent this week looking at different resolutions regarding food security. (You can find my relevant documents here, and here:)
We looked through the official U.N. documents passed through the years, and the things they did to help resolve the issue of poverty. (Or rather, what they did to do absolutely nothing about poverty.) The most notable of these was the Millennium Development Goals. They are as follows:
Goal 1: Eradicate Extreme Hunger and Poverty
Goal 2: Achieve Universal Primary Education
Goal 3: Promote Gender Equality and Empower Women
Goal 4: Reduce Child Mortality
Goal 5: Improve Maternal Health
Goal 6: Combat HIV/AIDS, Malaria and other diseases
Goal 7: Ensure Environmental Sustainability
Goal 8: Develop a Global Partnership for Development
The U.N. didn't achieve these goals, and through my research, I feel that I know why. If you were so kind as to look at the documents I linked above, all of the resolutions have something quite peculiar in common. They're all the same damn thing. The documents reference each other, ex: “... fully realize the Millennium Development Goal 1, and the 1996 Food Summit ..” Perhaps this means whatever those documents aimed to do, and their strategies didn’t work? If they didn't work, why does the U.N. keep passing what is essentially the same document, if the basis for action detailed in the document doesn't work?
THE DEFINITION OF INSANITY:
Insanity is: doing the same thing over and over again, and expecting different results.
Einstein said that, and Einstein is never wrong.
This U.N. business has been driving me INSANE. I've looked through every major document passed by the U.N. in regard to food security, and I've seen nothing but the same thing, over and over again.
This research has been a harsh cycle of monotony, looking through insane documents about insane things is insane. I haven't enjoyed myself this week. I haven't enjoyed looking through these documents; but I have been left with one question above all else: Why haven't these documents worked? And what can we do within our M.U.N. conference differently, that the U.N. has failed to do? Having researched and thought thought through this quite extensively, I drafted up this position paper.
Einstein said that, and Einstein is never wrong.
This U.N. business has been driving me INSANE. I've looked through every major document passed by the U.N. in regard to food security, and I've seen nothing but the same thing, over and over again.
This research has been a harsh cycle of monotony, looking through insane documents about insane things is insane. I haven't enjoyed myself this week. I haven't enjoyed looking through these documents; but I have been left with one question above all else: Why haven't these documents worked? And what can we do within our M.U.N. conference differently, that the U.N. has failed to do? Having researched and thought thought through this quite extensively, I drafted up this position paper.