Our world is changing, ideologies, needs and expectations are also changing. Individuals, groups, communities and nations are placing new demands, opinions are constantly differing, interests are clashing, the spirit of togetherness is being threatened. Something must be done, and an organization must have the responsibility to manage all these issues.
The United Nations has being a formidable force in managing the numerous challenges of our time and its role is more and more needed especially as we now face several unprecedented troubles and complexities across the world.
Global economy presently is being disrupted; the tendencies towards inequality are growing. Poverty and hunger, climate change and a host of other environmental, social and political uncertainties are the realities we have to face today.
The United Nations with its core focus of ensuring sustainable development, helping to maintain peace and security across the world and working to create equality among nations must re-strategize across all its organs, arms and agencies to be able to stay on top of the new demands.
The role of the United Nations is so crucial now than before. Firstly, with promoting sustainable development, the United Nations has to work assiduously to ensure that while some nations are complying with environmental, economic and social regulations and standards aimed at reaching the sustainability goals, poverty does not deepen in these countries. Already, gaps are widening in north-south relationships and the developing countries are at the losing end in several bilateral and multilateral agreements aimed at sustainably developing our world. Developing countries should not always be made to comply with processes and procedures that their institutions, infrastructures and capacities do not support. Sincerity has to be at the centre of all planning.
Secondly, with maintaining peace and security across the world, more attention has to be channelled towards disarmament and prevention nuclear proliferation. More effort must be directed at roundtable negotiations to resolve existing crises and conflicts. Small arms proliferation must be discouraged. Nations must be made to comply with existing treaties and conventions. Militarily-strong nations must be discouraged from encroaching on the territorial integrity of weaker nations.
Thirdly, the principle of equality among nations must be reinforced. Double-standards must be discouraged. Existing socio-economic gaps must not be a basis for subjugating weaker nations. Every voice must be heard no matter where it is coming from. The participation and inclusion of developing countries in matters that concerns all must be encouraged and improved.
In all, the United Nations must stay poised to play it crucial roles across the globe, facing new global realities with new strategies.
