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Doug EVERINGHAM
Tuesday, December 17, 2002 5:57 PM
ººº A list on the causes of the humanity’s failure in achieving a global
gouvernance and democracy. Also a list of very diverse theories and strategies
on solutions from individual to collective ones ººº
Rob Wheeler's introduction to this month's theme, the Architecture of Global
Governance, is the best I have seen in over 50 years of world governance
debates states people (especially after they leave office and no longer have to
cultivate many short-term popularity with voters) and many public polls have
agreed for more than half a century on the need for global democratic law
accountable to the world community with priority over rival sovereignties in
matters of global concern.
There is no shortage of theories about causes humanity's failure to achieve
this in multinational (private sector) and multilateral (public sector)
organization.
Some are sure that the major blame lies with
- the love of war or money,
- bureaucratic pyramid-building,
- rival bigotries dividing humans into saintly believers and hell-bent
infidels,
- tradition-bound academics resisting innovators dismissed as quacks,
- crafty appropriators of technology including mass media of infotainment,
- learned foundations and the Establishment manufacturing consent using *
maffiacs * (military, administrative, financial, fundamentalist, industrial and
academic complexes).
There is no shortage of theories about remedies:
- prayer (but sometimes directed to rival deities),
- rites, fasting, penance and celebrations to recruit followers (but often to
rival gurus),
- mystical and esoteric inner meditation and rebirth (but sometimes
insisting on special guidance via a specified elite group),
- voting with one's dollars in affluent countries to favor Earth-friendly
consumer goods
- entering politics and lobbying authorities
- enlisting supporters for global law and order promoting organizations
- lobbying the UN and governments for more NGO coalitions to develop inputs
and influence with UN and other multilateral authorities
- working thru governments and global authorities for UN reform conferences or
a conference of governments outside the UN to draft a global federal
constitution to give a supranational democratic authority sovereignty over
global issues constiutionally defined as global and outside national
jurisdictions (but not excluding devolution of such sovereign powers as
appropriate to national or local institutions, and not necessarily bypassing
the UN or perhaps even starting as a UN subsidiary).
- more inclusive alternatives like Dr Antonio Rossin's encouraging fundamental
reform of integrated acquisition of infant learning of speech and other
cultural communication along with flexible decision-making, largely a matter of
parents developing and exemplifying their own rationaland mutually respecting
consensus-developing skills with each other and letting the child as far as
possible express the first step in each decsion-making process, a confident
skill needed for voters in choosing policies in later life,
- probably supplemented as Dr Brock Chisholm, WHO's first Director-General
urged, by early schooling in simple understanding of psychological defense
methods and complexes that lead to negative conflict,
- new social structures to facilitate consensus, co-ordination and
conciliation,including successful radical finance, trade, ownership and tax
systems and human-scale networking of communities (and nesting of their
networks) as reported on by Dr Shann Turnbull, e.g. in his 2002 book 'A New Way
to Govern -- Organizations and society after Enron' and many web site items.
- in representation systems proportionality, subsidiarity, accountability with
checks and balances, including direct democracy (which to some extent includes
this forum),
- incremental grass-roots lobbying techniques like the Simultaneous Policy
movement launched by John Bunzl. This aims to enlist (e.g. via
www.simpol.org) enough solidarity among voters and NGOs to start persuading
enough legislators that they can ride out the wrath of global financial cartels
and re-regulate them, modify their infinite-growth-and-profit 'bottom line' and
submit to a majority vote for Earth and humanity. Thus legislators may achieve
that courage by developing among virtually all rival governments a provisional
consensus for remedial measures while each remains free to defer that action
until those rival governments agree in advance to do the same simultaneously,
so that the global cartels will have no rival country to flee to with their
investment, favorable loans and jobs to escape re-regulation and punish the *
uncompetitive * country.
I have referred to some of these measures in 'World Democracy', a 20-page paper
prepared for the 2002 second biennial conference of the International Institute
for Public Ethics. This is e-mailable on request and may be used freely if the
conference source is acknowledged.
Doug Everingham
WP21 Alliance Forum on a World Parliament for the 21st Century
E-mail : world-parl@forums.alliance21.org
Fax 1 717 264 5036
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