GLOBAL ACTION ALERT: Call for Global Wikipedia of Global Peace Organization (GPO) Charter: 31 Days Until Global Marches for Justice on 17 January 2011
Daily Blog on the Birth of the Justice Movement by Dr. Paul S. Zeitz
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by Dr. Paul S. Zeitz
Saturday, 18 December 2010
31 Days Until the "Global Marches for Justice" in Washington, D.C., around the USA and the World on 17January 2011
www.justicemovementnow.net
GLOBAL ACTION ALERT
Dear Unreasonable People Waging Justice NOW!:
Below is a concept paper for the creation of a new global organization, which I am proposing to call the Global Peace Organization (GPO). To establish this organization optimally, goverment, civil society, the private sector, and multilaterals could explore the possibility of joining together to co-create a Charter for the Global Peace Organization (GPO). I have been developing this idea in consultation with global stakeholders for the past 15 years. The launch of the Justice Movement is my 7th attempt in support this type of effort. My request is that you consider ways that work for you in which you can be unreasonable, relentless, and hopeful in waging peace and justice in support of developing and ensuring adoption of the Charter of the Global Peace Organization (GPO) by 21 January 2011 in NYC, NY at a Global Peace Organization (GPO) Constitutive Summit on that day.
Here are my concepts for your review and consideration. I am calling on Wikipedia to establish a global wiki-engagement process so that all people on the planet can be involved in creating the GPO Charter:
GLOBAL PEACE ORGANIZATION (GPO) CONCEPTS FOR CONSIDERATION
I.Global Crises Threaten the Human Species
The 21st century is beginning with unprecedented crises that threaten global peace and risk the extinction of the human species in the near term:
•Today there are over 6.9 billion people on the planet. Three billion of them live under $2 a day, and one billion two hundred million of them live under $1 a day in absolute poverty. The number of people living in poverty is rising;
•The world is showing an increasing inequity in the disposition of assets and income. In other words, the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer;
•Pervasive water, land, and air pollution is dramatically reducing biodiversity and
is accelerating an unprecedented human-created global warming, threatening the global environment. The rainforests, coral reefs, and other natural wonders are rapidly being eliminated and the oceans are being depleted of life due to over-consumption by humans;
•During 2002, the Antarctica ice shelf has had 3 massive collapses for the first time in 12,000 years;
•Over the next 50 years, the world population is projected to grow to a staggering
7-8 billion, this rapid growth threatens the Earth's capacity to sustain life;
•Feeding a growing world population and reducing hunger while sustaining the Earth's life-support systems will require dramatic advances in food production, distribution, and access over the next two generations;
•Unsustainable rates of urbanization are overwhelming infrastructure, especially in the less-industrialized world. An estimated additional 4 billion people will be living in urban areas by 2050. Cities will need to build modern facilities and develop systems for delivering services more efficiently if they are to house, educate, and employ larger numbers of individuals while preserving the environment;
•Transnational threats from non-state actors, such as terrorists and criminal organizations are increasing. September 11, 2001 should be seen as the beginning of large scale terrorist events. Terrorist networks are also thought to have access to biological, chemical, and nuclear weapons of mass destruction;
•Regional wars and conflicts continue to threaten large populations and they are causing increasing numbers of displaced persons and refugees. The world has experienced approximately 190 wars since the founding of the United Nations;
•Many states are actively improving their offensive capabilities, including efforts to obtain or retain nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons of mass destruction and the capabilities to deliver these weapons over long distances. Also, current control measures for these weapons remain weak;
•The global AIDS pandemic has been declared a global security crisis as it causing millions of deaths per year, yet HIV continues to be rapidly transmitted in Africa, Eastern Europe, Asia (India, China) and Latin America;
•The rapid emergence of infectious diseases crises, such as multidrug resistant
tuberculosis, SARS, mad cow disease, are likely to spread globally causing severe health and economic consequences.
The current international institutions that are responsible for achieving the MDGs include the United Nations, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and the World Trade Organization, and Regional Development Banks, are necessary but not sufficient to address these pressing global crises. Recognizing the need for new international financing mechanisms, the world joined together to form the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria in 2002 as a new international financing mechanism. The Education for All-Fast Track Initiative has been reformed into a Global Fund-like model; there is active progress underway to develop a Global Climate Fund, a Global Clean Water for All, and other possibilities.
II.THE GLOBAL PEACE ORGANIZATION (GPO)
It is the premise of this concept paper that the time has come to add a new institution, called the Global Peace Organization (GPO), in order to influence and accelerate action for rapidly accelerating the realization of universal human rights. Halting the global HIV/AIDS pandemic, achieving children's well-being, and transitional to a co-gender equality global system are urgent imperatives.
The GPO is envisioned as a new international financing mechanism and networking organization that will rapidly catalyze and expand actions of the existing multilateral institutions, of governments, of civil society, of faith-based organization and of the private sector towards achieving the rapid realization of human rights for all.
GPO Goal:Accelerate Action To Realize Human Rights for All by 2015;
GPO Strategic Objective: Catalyze the design and financing of local, national, regional, and global strategic action network to accelrate the rapid realization of human rights for all.
III.Implementation Strategies of the Global Peace Organization
A.Governance Structure
The GPO could be based a new innovative pentagonal governance structure that will allow equitable representation at all levels by the following partners: Faith-based Institutions; Civil Society Institutions; Governments; Private Sector; Multilateral Institutions, the Media, and Global Financing Mechanisms. Key founding institutions are proposed to be:
a.Global Alliance Vaccines & Immunization (GAVI);
b.Global Fund to Fight AIDS, TB, and Malaria (GFATM);
c.Education for All-Fast Track Intiative (EFA-FTI)
d.Global Climate Fund;
e.Global Freedom Fund;
f. Global Fund for Clean Water for All;
g.others to be determined.
B.Financing Strategic Action Network Plans
The GPO could be designed to focus on the design and effective implementation of strategic action plans that explicitly define actions, resources required, and results expected by global action networks.
The Global Peace Organization will be challenged to more effectively address the global crises by developing and financing comprehensive strategic plans:
•Promoting Democracy, Human Rights and Gender Equity
•Accelerating Poverty Reduction
•Promoting Conflict and Refugee Prevention and Resolution
•Strengthening the Global Information Infrastructure
•Strengthening Financial Coordination
•Promoting and Open Trading System
•Promoting Energy Security
•Strengthening Safe and Effective Transportation Systems
•Strengthening Societal Infrastructure
•Stabilizing the Global Environment
•Stabilizing Global Population Growth
•Stabilizing Global Food Supply and Distribution
•Enhancing Human Capital Development
•Eradicating the HIV/AIDS Pandemic
•Improving Human Health and Combating Emerging Infectious Diseases
•Elimination of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD)
•Responding to Humanitarian Crises
The Global Peace Organization will be designed to support the implementation of Strategic Plans to address these priority areas.
C.GPO as a New Financing Mechanism
The GPO will dramatically increase resources to fund GPO strategic plans and to direct those resources to areas of greatest need. GPO's General Principles are to:
•Operate as a financial instrument of the IFF and other sources of revenue, not an implementing entity.
•Make available and leverage additional financial resources.
•Support programs that reflect national local ownership.
•Operate in a balanced manner in terms of different regions, priorities and interventions.
•Pursue an integrated and balanced approach to programs.
•Evaluate proposals through independent review processes.
•Establish a simplified, rapid and innovative grant-making process and operate transparently, with accountability.
D.GPO Economic Policy: Domestic Demand-Led Economic Growth
The Global Peace Organization is envisioned to develop economic policies that are based on the domestic demand led economic growth model articulated by T. Palley. Domestic demand-led growth rests on four pillars:
1)improved income distribution;
2)good governance;
3)financial stability and space for counter-cyclical stabilization policy;
4)an adequate, fairly priced supply of development finance.
In order to put these policies in place, the following are needed:
1)labor and democratic rights;
2)appropriate reform and regulation of the financial architecture;
3)combination of debt relief, increased foreign aid, and increased
development assistance provided through new sources such as
the proposed airline solidarity contribution.
E.Accelerating Free Trade
Fair trade has the potential to act as a powerful motor for the reduction of poverty, as well as for economic growth. The Global Peace Organization will promote fair trade that is a trading partnership, based on dialogue, transparency and respect, that seeks greater equity in international trade. Fair trade contributes to sustainable development by offering better trading conditions to, and securing the rights of, marginalized producers and workers - especially in the South. Fair Trade organizations (backed by consumers) are engaged actively in supporting producers, awareness raising and in campaigning for changes in the rules and practice of conventional international trade".
Fair Trade's strategic intent is:
•deliberately to work with marginalized producers and workers in order to help them move from a position of vulnerability to security and economic self-sufficiency
•to empower producers and workers as stakeholders in their own organizations
•actively to play a wider role in the global arena to achieve greater equity in international trade.
All involved in Fair Trade could be required to accept that it has to include:
•paying fair prices to producers which reflect the true cost of production... world market prices often do not cover even the costs of the raw materials
•supporting producer organizations in their social and environmental projects, such as developing health facilities and tree planting
•promoting gender equality in pay and working conditions to change the traditional low position of women in society
•advising on product development to increase access to markets
•committing to long term relationships to provide stability and security
•campaigning to highlight the unequal system of world trade which places profit above human rights and threatens our environment.
F.Expanding Social Democratic Governance
The Global Peace Organization could expand social democratic governance by promoting the scope of equality, democratic governance and social freedoms within regulated markets.
G.Accelerating Science and Technology for Peace
The Global Peace Organization is envisioned to optimize the efficient and effective use of science and technology to advance the global agenda. The following strategies will be prioritized:
•Utilizing the global information infrastructure to accelerate the use of information technologies to accelerate development and peace;
•Development of dual-use technologies for domestic and international development and peace;
•Multicultural technical coordination to marshal the intellectual and institutional resources of domestic and international partners to optimize the frequency that appropriate sustainable development technologies are developed and introduced to large populations;
•Multicultural policy and implementation coordination within and among national governments, bilateral partners, and multilateral partners to more efficiently use resources;
•Development and introduction of measurement methodologies to promote individual, community, institutional, and societal efforts to achieve RESULTS;
• Expand the use of biotechnology to accelerate economic transformation.
H.Promoting Strategic Alliances & Networks
The Global Peace Organization could be designed to mobilize multisectoral networks to achieve results by implementing Strategic Plans:
•The Global Peace Organization will be designed as a convenor in order to bring all the parties to the table, mobilizing key constituencies and providing a forum to develop and improve Strategic Plans;
•The Global Peace Organization will be designed as a platform for people and institutions coming together in a network, by establishing a level playing field for development of Strategic plans. In highly contentious policy domains, providing such a haven and bringing together outside parties may also have a catalytic effect on negotiations;
•The Global Peace Organization will be designed to act as norm entrepreneurs by using networks as platforms to advance norms and strategic plans in such areas as sustainable human development or human rights;
•The Global Peace Organization will be designed to serve as multilevel network managers. The GPO will be designed to develop and implement strategies for simultaneously interacting with the appropriate levels of governance on particular issues at appropriate stages of the public policy cycle. By serving as a hub, the GPO can facilitate the crucial local-global links in global public policymaking;
•GPO policymaking will be designed to be linked to support global-, regional-, national-, and subnational-operational implementation frameworks for scaling-up the delivery of technologies;
•The GPO will be designed to serve as financiers, providing resources for a range of operational programs based on Strategic Plans related to the application of global public goods.
I. Information for Action
The GPO could utilize the latest information technology to share information on plans and results. Existing technologies such as the cell phone and internet will be used in new and innovative ways to galvanize rapid action.
J. Sources of Funding
a. International Financing Facility (IFF);
b. Global Solidarity Contributions;
c. Overseas Development Assistance (ODA);
d. Debt Cancellation and Debt Conversion;
e. Grants
f. other sources
K. Estimated Resources Needed
Investing in Development, The Millennium Project, January 2005.
L. Here are some related weblinks that are driving GPAN's "Waging Justice" Approach:
1. ACTION NETWORKS
The role/power of networks in Social Movements:
http://www.managementassistance.org/ht/d/sp/i/519/pid/519
Social Movements and Philanthropy: How Foundations Can Support Movement Building:
http://evaluationinnovation.org/sites/default/files/Masters%20Movement%20Building%20.pdf
Multi-stakeholder & Global Action Networks, a 21st Century approaches to Accelerating Action:
http://scalingimpact.net/innovations/multi-stakeholder-action-networks
Global Action Networks: creating our future together
By Steve Wadell on Amazon.com
The End of the Third World? Modernizing Multilateralism for a Multipolar World
http://go.worldbank.org/MI7PLIP8U0
II. WAGING JUSTICE: PERFORMANCE-BASED ADVOCACY APPROACH
Innovation Network on the evaluation of the Campaign to End Pediatric HIV/AIDS (CEPA):
http://www.evaluationinnovation.org/sites/default/files/AEU_Issue10.pdf
Evaluating Advocacy? Start from the Beginning:
http://hausercenter.org/iha/2010/07/22/evaluating-advocacy-start-from-the-beginning/
"Waging Justice" approaches to Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning Systems:
http://www.scalingimpact.net/innovations/monitoring-evaluation-learning-systems
III. BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
THREE LAWS OF PERFORMANCE
By the Vanto Group on Amazon.com
IV. BIRTH OF THE JUSTICE MOVEMENT
The Global Peace Action Network (GPAN) is catalyzing and supporting the creation of the Justice Movement and the March for Justice on January 17, 2010. All updated information can be found on www.justicemovementnow.net. The immediate establishment of the Global Peace Organization (GPO) is proposed as a top priority of the Justice Movement
ACTION REQUEST:
Please contact wikipedia ask them to take the leadership on a global process for drafting the Global Peace Organization (GPO) Charter which is proposed to be approved on 21 January 2011 at a proposed Global Peace Organization (GPO) Constitutive Summit in NYC, NY.
Please mobilize all interested stakeholders to take part in the possibility of this transformational moment in the global quest for human rights for all as a way of life.
If you made it this far, I wanted to give one final treat from the possible future:
LIVE FROM THE FUTURE TO THE PRESENT
Most human beings are living by putting the "past into the future", thus "living into the past." This leads to a "almost probable certain future" like what we have now. It will be more of the same headlines that we read today.
By choosing to live from the "future to the present", we are able then to create the possibilities of the future as we want it to be. We can take committed, unreasonable action for justice and then see how we can create the possibility of new kinds of headlines. We can explore the possibility of seeing more headlines like what we want to see in the World.
TODAY'S HEADLINES: "ALMOST PROBABLE CERTAIN FUTURE"
(daily from the city where I am)
•Washington Post, 18 Dec 2010: Success for START pact is still from sure
•Washington Post, 18 Dec 2010: Iowa Justices Targeted Over Gay Marriage Ruling
•Washington Post, 18Dec 2010: White House Delayed Rule on Guns to Mexico
•Washington Post, 18Dec 2010: House approves defense bill with lower pay raise for military
This headline could turn a reasonable person into an unreasonable person waging justice, NOW! Our military, their families, and veterans are bravest and boldest of those waging justice, to the point that they are will to sacrifice their life and the wholeness of a normal family life. This headline could turn a reasonable person into an unreasonable person waging justice when one realizes that the gap between the richest and poorest Americans now is a record of 14.5 to 1 -- double the previous high gap in 1968!
POSSIBLE FUTURE HEADLINES
4 July 2011: Philadelphia, PA. Liberty Bell Chimed Upon the First Public Reading of the U.S. Constitution as amended by the 2011 Constitutional Convention
21 January 2011: NYC, NY Nations of World approve Charter of the "Global Peace Organization (GPO)"
20 January 2011: Washington, DC Justice Movement Charter for 2011-2011 approved by diverse representatives from 50 States and all walks of American life
17 January 2011: Global Marches for Justice
Peace,
Paul Zeitz