result #111972 - THE UNITED NATIONS ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS- WILL IT JUST BE USELESS?

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THE UNITED NATIONS ALLIANCE OF CIVILIZATIONS- WILL IT JUST BE USELESS?

[+] serious ballot by xxxxxxxx
created Mon Feb 05, 07

"The Alliance of Civilizations is a United Nations Secretary-General initiative intended to galvanize collective action across diverse societies in order to combat extremism, and overcome cultural and social barriers between mainly the Western and predominantly Muslim worlds.

Proposed by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero at the 59th General Assembly of the United Nations and co-sponsored by Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the initiative aims to produce actionable, time-bound recommendations by the end of 2006 for UN member states to adopt.

To guide this effort, the UN Secretary-General assembled a High-level Group (HLG) consisting of 20 eminent persons drawn from policy making, academia, civil society, religious leadership, and the media and originating from all regions and civilizations. The HLG had its first meeting in Spain in November 2005. The High-Level Group (HLG) for the Alliance of Civilizations (AoC) had its second meeting in Doha, Qatar from 25 to 27 February 2006 with the agenda aiming to find ways to calm the cartoon crisis between West and Islamic world. The third meeting took place in Dakar, Senegal from 28 to 30 May 2006. The members submited their report outlining recommendations and practical solutions on how the Western and Islamic societies can solve misconceptions and misunderstandings between them in fourth meeting convened in November 2006 in Istanbul. According to the report, "politics, not religion, is at the heart of growing Muslim-Western divide".

Among the members is former Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, who proposed the Dialogue Among Civilizations initiative, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, South African Nobel laureate, Prof. Pan Guang, who obtained the Saint Petersburg-300 Medal for Contribution to China-Russia Relations, and Arthur Schneier, who is the founder and president of the “Appeal of Conscience Foundation” and who gained the "Presidential Citizens Medal”.

The Office of the Secretariat of the Alliance of Civilizations is based at United Nations New York Headquarters. It is currently working to support research on recommendations for the consideration of the High-level Group."

(Source: Wikipedia)

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COMMENTS:
Voted : Useless
The UN is leading it? Useless.

by FiddleFaddleOnLSD on Mon Feb 05, 07 9:16am [+]

Voted : Useless
It won't solve the Clash of Civilizations at all- this global phenomenon is far too complex to be solved by a bunch of intellectualists from each civilization meeting for tea and biscuits. I doubt it will even lessen the Clash of Civilizations yet alone stop it.

by xxxxxxxx on Mon Feb 05, 07 9:17am [+]

The U.S./Bush approach is much better. Invade a Muslim country, try to steal their oil, get bogged down in a never-ending civil war, spend hundreds of billions of dollars, make the West look like a bunch of impotent, corrupt, ham-fisted idiots, which emboldens Islamic radicals world-wide. Brilliant.

by cranky on Mon Feb 05, 07 9:31am [+]

cranky- Yes, the Bush approach is flawed.

Now, I would like your analysis of the UN Alliance of Civilizations.

But it is nice that the UN is implicitly aknowleding Huntington's theory of the Clash.

by xxxxxxxx on Mon Feb 05, 07 9:37am [+]

Voted : Useless
Will their diplomats be allowed to double-park their limousines at strip clubs too?

by _Beelzebubba on Mon Feb 05, 07 9:42am [+]

Soc:

I hope they will be a little bit useful, but they may fail. However, better to try than to do nothing.

Still, regardless of whether the U.N. did something - or nothing - they would be condemned by some either way.

by cranky on Mon Feb 05, 07 10:01am [+]

cranky- "However, better to try than to do nothing."

- Sometimes. But is it so in this case?
Is this really a balanced attempt at solving the crisis?
Let us look at Fox News' perspective:

"Originally proposed by Spain and Turkey, both of which have
contributed funding, the Alliance was announced by Annan
in July as a kind of one-year talking shop to ease tension
between Islamic nations and the West. In a Sept. 2 letter
soliciting money for the Alliance from member states, Annan
described the program more generally as an initiative meant
to bridge the divides “between different cultures and religions.”

But one lane of the bridge is a lot wider than the other: the
panel of 18 “eminent persons” whom Annan named to the Alliance
(a 19th, representing all of East Asia, has yet to be named) is weighted heavily on the side of
Islamic states, including representatives of Egypt, Qatar,
Tunisia, Morocco, Pakistan and the former president of Iran,
Mohamed Khatami. There are two representatives from the U.S.,
but none from Israel."
(Source: Fox News)

- Sounds like Alliance of Civilizations is a one-sided piece of incompetence?

by xxxxxxxx on Mon Feb 05, 07 10:16am [+]

Voted : Useless
I'd love to be proven wrong on this, but history shows I won't be.

by herzog on Mon Feb 05, 07 3:44pm [+]

^Well, there is always a first time for everything.

by cranky on Tue Feb 06, 07 8:41am [+]

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