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The UN currently is falling short of providing effective support to member states, migrants, and the societies that host them.
For example, countries’ national interest in maintaining their sovereignty, controlling their borders, and enforcing their domestic laws must be balanced against migrants’ human rights, their legitimate desire to improve their lives, and societies’ need for immigrants and increased diversity.
In fact, the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 15) on sustainable ecosystems acknowledges many developing societies’ close relationship with nature when it calls for increased “capacity of local communities to pursue sustainable livelihood opportunities.”
But it should stand up for democracy and human rights – and stand with those who aspire to build free societies.
That is why closed societies monitor their citizens’ sexual lives.
For this reason, closed and closing societies have always feared sexual liberationists, and have sought to link political dissidence with sexual anarchy.
Inclusive governments that are seen to represent the overwhelmingly devout Muslim societies of the Arab world are a vital antidote to global jihadism.
Only when the war against jihadism shifts from the battlefield to the political arena can Arab societies move toward a more secure and prosperous future.
It is time we took a side: the side of the people who want what we want; who see our societies, for all their faults, as something to admire; who know that they should not be faced with a choice between tyranny and theocracy.
"Globalization" of our societies, development of the internet, the spread of liberal economics; all shrink boundaries to a point where it is impossible to avoid the American way of life, however devoutly some might wish to do so.
But Germans still own indirectly the houses they live in through their investments with life-insurance companies and savings societies, which own and manage a large proportion of the country’s housing estates.
Opting out of the values and customs of free societies is problematic, but it is ultimately acceptable.
Where are our societies headed if company owners consider that quality is too expensive and that workers must be made insecure in order to make them less demanding?
Do international tribunals of the sort Milosevic faced before his death promote or postpone serious self-reflection and reconciliation in damaged societies?
Most societies recognize a moral obligation to help ensure that young people can live up to their potential.
Indeed, while inequality’s harmful effects are wide-reaching, and impose huge costs on our economies and societies, they are largely avoidable.
Of the harm that inequality inflicts on our economies, politics, and societies, the damage done to children demands special concern.
Recognizing this, successive UN development reports since 1990 have made the case that both economies and societies are stronger when public policy puts people’s wellbeing first.
The reason for this failure, which is of course also the reason for the superiority of market economies as they are manifested in free societies, is superiority lies in the free civil society as a major source of innovative development.
Also, little is known about how fast our societies will be able to adjust to the future changes if we can see them coming.
By emphasizing the relations between states and governments over contacts with the opposition or civil societies (when they exist in an identifiable form), traditional diplomacy has created for itself a handicap that is difficult to overcome.
Just as Southeast Asia’s peasant rebellions of the 1930’s were a reaction to the breakdown of an earlier episode of globalization, so Islamism in Asia is a response to our new secularist/consumerist societies.
When Arab societies are asked to accept reduced subsidies, fewer government jobs, and less from the state in general, they will demand a larger share in the decision-making process.
There can be no return to a monoethnic past, so successful societies will need to adapt to diversity.
[Supplementary infographics below]Germany’s Anti-Populist ExceptionalismBERLIN – As Germany prepares for this month’s federal election, the country seems remarkably resistant to the populist challenge that other Western societies have faced.
Placing that understanding at the heart of the SDGs will help to improve the health and wellbeing of all societies long into the future.
Our scientific ecosystem’s goods are the independent, distilled, peer-reviewed knowledge that drives our societies and economies forward.
More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities, and any political renaissance must counterbalance the appeal of vast virtual communities with resilient urban societies.
To be sure, there are many other things that are crucial to the good life in peaceful, open societies: freedom of speech, religion, and association, and the power to choose – and remove – your own government.
But nothing guarantees free societies' liberties as much as the application of the rule of law with equal force to the governed and the governing.
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