NYT article: "The Nobel committee said the U.N. agency’s work to address hunger had laid the foundations for peace in nations ravaged by war. .... "the agency [WFP] has met with criticism that its food sourcing methods hamper already weak local food markets. The organization buys most supplies on the global market, and development experts have criticized it for offering contracts to major donors —
like the United States — in what has come to be known as “tied aid,” or the practice of tying humanitarian donations to purchasing contracts. In response, it has pledged to eventually 10 percent of its supplies from smaller local farms.
Nobelin rauhanpalkinto YK:n ruokaohjelmalle – Tylsältä vaikuttavaa valintaa selittää huoli nationalismin noususta.
”Ruoka on paras lääke kaaosta vastaan, ja ruoan puute synnyttää epävakautta ja konflikteja. Ruoka on yksi perustarpeistamme”, Nobel-komitean puheenjohtaja Berit Reiss-Andersen perusteli valintaa tiedotustilaisuudessa.
WFP:n palkitsemisella on selvä tarkoitus tukea multilateraalia politiikkaa ja instituutioita niiden heikolla hetkellä.
”YK:n sisällä toimivat sanovat, että rahoitusta on vaikeampi saada. Järjestö on riippuvainen rahoituksesta”, Reiss-Andersen sanoi.
Juuri tämä lienee pihvi komitean valinnan taustalla, arvelee Ulkopoliittisen instituutin johtaja Mika Aaltola. Nationalismin nousu ja valtapeli vie pohjaa tärkeää perustyötä tekeviltä organisaatioilta.
Mika AaltolaKuva: Roni Rekomaa / Lehtikuva
”Tuosta se poliittinen viesti löytyy. Se ei ole mikään kompromissiratkaisu, vaan palkinto annettiin lähettämään viestiä.”
Rauhanpalkinnolla on tarkoitus tukea multilateraalia politiikkaa ja instituutioita niiden heikolla hetkellä. Erityisesti Yhdysvaltojen ja Kiinan valtataistelu näkyy järjestöissä, ja ne ovat politisoitumassa.
JENNY CLEGG looks ahead at a year where an increasingly multipolar world will challenge US dominance
"The founding proclamation of the UN: “We the peoples … determine to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” also reaffirmed faith in fundamental human rights, and committed to establish conditions of respect for international treaties and laws, and to promote social progress and better standards of life.
It is now time to reassert the role of the UN at the centre of world politics by reclaiming the “We the people” declaration from below in a grass-roots movement for international co-operation on climate change alongside the fundamental principles of peace and social justice.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Austria on Tuesday called for banning nuclear weapons because of their catastrophic humanitarian effects, an initiative it said now has the backing of 159 countries.
Henry A. Wallace: The Way to Peace (September 12, 1946) When the United States were still mighty by all meanings, Wallace gave this speech in the New York Madison Square Garden. One week later he was forced to resign by President Harry S. Truman.
Mireille Fanon-Mendès-France : "Contre les aspirations des peuples, la porte pour de nouvelles relations internationales basées sur la loi du plus fort est enfin grande ouverte… Le monde entre dans l’oeil du cyclone qui pourrait se transformer en guerre."
The first task should have been to declare Benghazi and the liberated areas a UN Protected Area or safe haven. International peace-keepers would have had to be deployed to help protect the liberated areas. Humanitarian and reconstruction assistance and su
2011: 1,7 trillion usd Figures from the 2011 Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) annual report show that the world’s governments are spending more than ever on the military: $1,738 billion per year. If spent differently, this money would go a long way to resolving the real and immediate challenges facing our planet.
Anna MacDonald of Control Arms speaks at the start of the ceremony for the signing of the Arms Trade Treaty at United Nations headquarters in New York, Jun. 3, 2013