POSSIBLE  SOLUTIONS FOR OUR INTERNATIONAL SOCIAL PROBLEMS.

1. Remember birth control? It was a concept adopted around the world in the sixties and needs to be brought back. The world today is over-crowded.

2. The United Nations needs a peace force. A well trained army of Blue Helmets from a dozen democratic countries ready to step in and stop dangerous demagogues. dictators, and corporate bosses from gaining power and creating social havoc anywhere on earth. A Ten Million Dollar reward will be paid by the United Nations to any individual, or group of individuals, who can apprehend in the name of human rights and international justice, dangerous dictators who planned and committed murder; and bring those individuals to face human-rights tribunals.

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"Today, the traditional system of every-nation-for-itself is leading to disaster.  There are currently 56 active military conflicts in the world, the largest number since the end of World War II.  These conflicts are also becoming more internationalized, with 92 nations engaged in a conflict beyond their borders.  According to the Global Peace Index, “there has been a significant rise in both conflicts and battle deaths in the past two decades, with battle deaths reaching a thirty-year high.”  

Overarching this grim toll lies a revived nuclear arms race, increasingly likely to erupt into a nuclear war that will annihilate most life on earth.

In this situation, there is a desperate need for effective global governance.  Or, to put things differently, the world needs a stronger United Nations―strong enough to resolve conflicts among nations and, thereby, maintain international peace and security.

The task of strengthening global governance is difficult, but not impossible.  There are ways to limit the use of the veto in the UN Security Council, transfer security issues to the UN General Assembly (where there is majority rule and no veto), and increase the jurisdiction of international judicial bodies.  It’s also necessary and possible to provide the UN with an independent source of income to fund an expanded range of activities.

The time has come to transform the United Nations into a federation of nations that can effectively uphold international law―a government for the world.  With such a government, we would have a much better chance of restraining outlaw nations and averting the nuclear catastrophe that looms before us."

Lawrence S. Wittner (https://www.lawrenceswittner.com/ ) is Professor of History Emeritus at SUNY/Albany and the author of Confronting the Bomb (Stanford University Press).

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