Would the World Be Better Without the UN? by Thomas G. Weiss

Author:Thomas G. Weiss
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781509517299
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2018-02-13T00:00:00+00:00

Conclusion

A proper evaluation of the contribution of UN actors to sustainable development requires that we broaden perspectives to acknowledge cumulative impacts as well as come to grips with the difficulty of asking and answering questions about counterfactuals and of determining precisely why an international organization succeeds or fails.30 What is important to our story is the positive collective impact of the UN system in promoting sustainable human development, especially since the 1970s. Such ideas as tailoring assistance to least developed countries, establishing global metrics, and placing human well-being at the center of development have been essential to human progress. And concrete international operations to eradicate infectious diseases, monitor agreed objectives, and establish the scientific bottom lines of climate change have demonstrated the utility of universal organizations of the UN system.

Self-satisfaction is hardly justified, however. There are growing inequalities within and between countries and three successive years of the warmest recorded annual temperatures and harsh climate catastrophes. Yet it is impossible to deny that the world would be a much poorer place and have an even more threatened environment without numerous UN ideas and operations. They have contributed to birthing and nurturing a more sustainable path to development than we would have had without them.

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