Thank you for your invitation to address the 40th Anniversary Symposium of the Japan Institute of International Affairs (JIIA). Armed conflicts and other threats to human life and security have occurred in various parts of the world. UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has discussed human security in several reports, and this can be taken as an indication of the international community's growing awareness of its importance.
This solitary journey taught me the importance of human connections and people as individuals. With this in mind, in a policy speech I gave in December 1998 in Vietnam, I proposed the creation of a UN Human Security Fund. This is an example of the new range of measures required for preventive diplomacy in the future. .
It is a process to which prominent lawyers from different parts of the world have contributed a lot. With its opening words, "We the Peoples of the United Nations," democratization was built into the world organization. El Salvador, Mozambique and Cambodia gave the first examples in connection with the peace agreements that brought an end to the armed conflicts in these countries.
Maintaining the moral authority of the UN requires the fuller participation and commitment of all states.
PRESENTATIONS
Of particular importance in this connection is the promotion and strengthening of the spirit of tolerance. In this regard, we must note the importance of the role played by regional institutions and organizations. While tears are appearing in the principle of sovereign equality, this principle cannot yet be termed completely obsolete.
This is evident from the effectiveness of pressure from the international community in handling the situation in East Timor. And it is important once again to nurture the spirit of tolerance among the people of the nation. And the greater the scale of the conflict, the greater the human and financial cost of achieving subsequent disarmament.
International society must recognize that measures to achieve this are part of the essential costs of building peace for the future. I have offered an overview of the issue of conflict prevention as one of the central concepts behind the idea of "human security". It is true that there is no better way to eradicate conflicts than this prevention. The central role of the individual in the development process gives us a framework for ensuring that development takes place by, for and for each individual.
The state of the world in terms of economic and social development is quite dire. What does it mean in relation to the daily life of the people who live in the poor parts of the world. In this context, it is not difficult to imagine the lack of access to medical services and clean water, e.g. in the poorer regions of the world.
Poverty is not only found in the capitals of poor countries in Africa, Latin America or Asia. This is also found in the heart of the developed world, in New York, Paris, London and elsewhere. In both rationalized violence and unchecked violence, political alienation is the product of a profound dysfunction of the state.
It is a vision of the individual that conveys a very central and simple idea: that there are a number of rights associated with being human. It is now appropriate, at the dawn of a new millennium, to review and strengthen the international community's past policies on the eradication of poverty, respect for human rights, democratization and the strengthening of human dignity. revaluate.
DISCUSSIONS
Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who raised this issue - there is a question of how to approach these different problems, as well as the proposals related to them that have been presented during the debate, in an organically connected way. I have always been obsessed with the division of the world into rich and poor countries and I believe that you will have a new digital wall that exists with the development of new technologies. This can further emphasize the division of the world, which is and will continue to be a real problem of tomorrow.
It helps to use the individual as the main driving force behind all development; it makes it clear that we need every individual if we want to successfully develop society. But you also have to look at the functioning of the economic system and the economic rules. This is imperative because the things we used to take care of at the state level are increasingly being pushed to the global level.
The insights and perspectives of my colleagues have made this one of the most enlightening seminars I. National security that does not produce human security for the nation's citizens will not be effective. Many of the things that were said during this symposium remind us of the need for a culture of peace.
Now, the culture of peace as recently approved by the General Assembly of the UN is a bit of a catchall. And one of those, of course, is to respect the different values of others, to respect the fact that it is the diversity of the human experience that gives us our richness. In our interest in the micro approach, we must not lose sight of the macro approach.
Hans van Ginkel pointed out the difference between public opinion and popular opinion. Professor Emma Rothschild emphasized what Professor Jesus Estanislao said about the continued importance of the state and the centrality of the individual and individual dignity. Regarding the implementation of human security issues, she emphasized the importance of thinking in terms of specific human security projects – for example, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, education and a free press in institutions.
The twenty-first century is confronted with a new disease - the fight for human dignity. Concrete measures must be taken and funds must be provided to assist in the realization of the concept of human security.
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