The challenges that awaits global leaders & Antonio Guterres, UN secretary-general in global politics affecting millions. Between a global Trumpism, refugee crisis, climate change, North Korea’s nuclear program and Kim Jong-Un phenomenon, conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, elsewhere, and a slew of internal scandals, already had some daunting global challenges on their plate.
Guterres, who as high commissioner for refugees made a point of urging wealthy countries to do more to help migrants and refugees and has promised to do so as secretary-general as well, can’t be encouraged by Trump’s views on the crisis.
And U.N. high commissioner for human rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, responding to Trump’s comments on barring Muslims from entering the U.S., deporting immigrants, and using torture, said during the campaign that Trump’s election posed a danger to global stability and the refugee situation around the world has been overwhelming, heart-wrenching, and those who’ve had the guns and bombs to sell an launch are still comfortably ruling the world. I’ve been weary and suspicious of “conflict management”, as an academic pursuit, as policy, and as practice.
Managing crisis implies keeping war going tolerably, which has been the case, since it’s greatly profitable. If anyone cares to end wars, one needs the superior skills of whispering to greedy, ravenous and rabid hyenas that will think you foolish to jump into their den in the first place.
You will come out without a leg, perhaps without your life, but someone needs to go into those dens, not just to manage the destruction that comes out of them from a profitable distance. We need war-whisperers to ease the pain and damage done to humanity. I’m not taking about men and women who wear uniform to go to war for God and Country.
I’m talking about fearless peacemakers who understand the war machine and dare to confront it with the power of their knowledge and moral authority. Go into those dens, you war-whisperers.
Is there any cause for optimism? Guterres, who as the former prime minister of Portugal is the first former national leader to hold the U.N.’s top job, is coming in with an ambitious reform agenda, pledging to revamp the organization’s budget rules and regulations to make it more efficient and accountable. Perhaps he could use America’s renewed threats to defund the U.N. as impetus to push these reforms through, while keeping the Trump administration engaged in, or at the very least indifferent to, the U.N.’s operations. For all the problems on his desk, this may prove to be the new secretary-general’s toughest challenge.
2018:
1.The world will witness a cataclysmic self destruction of an American Presidency not because of Russia but gluttony and greed.
2. A milder and gentler North Korea engage in talks with South Korea, US and China.
3. Russia war on the West by surgical cyber attacks on financial institutions and government facility
4. African rulers increased corruption and theft in office rendering the continent weak and and fertile ground for conflict and small arms proliferation.
5 Nigeria corruption and exploding population will likely plung the fragile republic into civil conflict and a massive refugee problem that is likely to distabilize the subregion and the continent.
6.The stage is set for African spring. Despots like Biya, Obiang and Conde will be evicted from state houses in Cameroon, Equitorial Guinea and Conakry.
7. When Obiang falls Yahya Jammeh can take his rightful place in Mile 2.
1. Russian meddling and cyber attacks is FAKE NEWS. Don’t be deceived.
2. There is no country that meddles in other nations’ affairs more than the US; ask Venezuela and Syria.
3. The only countries that have been caught Red Handed engaging in cyber attacks and admitting so, are the US and Israel. The cyber attack on Iran nuclear facilities is a case in point.
4. US citizens must stop being dumb and rescue their country from the Neocons, Zionists and Christian Evangelist, who have hijacked their country and are using it to achieve their goals.
Facts: (a) Neocons are White Supremacists masquerading as democrats. Their only goal is to maintain the current unfair global economic and financial status, with less than 20% of the global population residing in the West, consuming more than 80% of global wealth.
(b) Zionist have a greater Israel project, which can only be brought about through chaos and eventual redrawing of maps in the Middle East; without chaos, there is no way that existing borders can be shifted to achieve their goal of creating a greater Israel.
(c) The latter (Christian Evangelists) are the most dangerous to world peace, as they religiously believe in a cataclysmic global event ( even nuclear conflict) as a prerequisite to the fulfilment of their Prophesy for the return of Jesus and establishment of the Kingdom of their God.
With these elements in total control in Washington, the US has thus become the single biggest threat to world peace and human existence. Many can’t see it because of the powerful propaganda machinery at their disposal that can turn “black” into “White” and those who can see it are either villified and demonised or corrupted with massive bribes (financia & military aid) into submission and pliancy.