Saturday, May 19, 2007

UN Peacebuilding Commission

As an acting chair for the peacebuilding commission of Model UN I had to come up with four topic proposal that we can use in our conference in Febraury.

Some of you may not know what this commission does so here's the blurb from the UN's website:

The Peacebuilding Commission will marshal resources at the disposal of the international community to advise and propose integrated strategies for post-conflict recovery, focusing attention on reconstruction, institution-building and sustainable development, in countries emerging from conflict.
The Commission will bring together the UN's broad capacities and experience in conflict prevention, mediation, peacekeeping, respect for human rights, the rule of law, humanitarian assistance, reconstruction and long-term development.
Specifically, the Commission will:
Propose integrated strategies for post-conflict peacebuilding and recovery;
Help to ensure predictable financing for early recovery activities and sustained financial investment over the medium- to longer-term.
Extend the period of attention by the international community to post-conflict recovery;
Develop best practices on issues that require extensive collaboration among political, military, humanitarian and development actors.

So from those points I started researching countries. The following countries are in my proposals ... Uganda, East Timor, Nepal, and the Democtratic Republic of Congo.

Why these countries? because they are undergoing hardships yet the media does not cover their miseries. We always hear about Palestine, Afghanistan, Iraq etc but these countries suffer without almost anyone in the world knowing ,,, google those countries and find out what they are going through whether it is political, economical or anything else

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