The international community needs a higher conception of legacy.
Reconfiguring the status quo requires an honest reassessment of the principles underpinning the institutions and narratives of the modern world.
We are not simply witnesses to a given moment of history; we are agents of human legacy.
The Baha’i International Community’s (BIC) United Nations office in Geneva hosted, May 4, an official side-event during the 7th United Nations (UN) Multi-Stakeholder Forum on Science, Technology and Innovation for the Sustainable Development goals (SDGs), bringing together representatives from the government sector, the UN and the private sector.
“Achieving climate neutrality necessitates participation from everyone, irrespective of their background. Residents of a neighborhood build up the resolve for collective action when they are able to interact,” said Melania Mora from the Baha’i International Community Brussels office with regard to a series of conversations the office held with city representatives and think tanks, about climate change policy.
“In today’s interconnected world, policies have impact beyond their intended geographical and thematic scope.
Over the past two years, the pandemic has prompted greater global recognition of the interdependence of nations, particularly their economic ties. During this same time, the Bahá’í International Community (BIC) has sought to foster understanding of a deeper reality—that at a fundamental level, humanity is one.
Representatives of United Nations Member-States and UN officials will join today a new discussion series, based on UN Secretary-General António Guterres’s report Our Common Agenda and hosted by the Baha’i International Community (BIC) in New York as well as other civil society actors, on the future of the multilateral system.
“Humanity’s welfare—and indeed, humanity’s very future—depends on solidarity and working together as a global family to achieve common goals.”
Humanity’s growing global interdependence calls for a profound paradigm shift—from one fixated on unbridled nationalism to one more reflective of a world interconnected in all aspects of life. Admittedly, this may sound far-fetched in the present moment. But what was once seen as an idealistic vision of international cooperation has, in light of the obvious challenges facing humanity, which grow more severe each day, become an urgent and pragmatic necessity.
I wish to thank the President of the General Assembly for hosting these dialogues. This moment demands of us all a new kind of deliberation and a new time horizon.
I will start with a question for the panel and then offer a few reflections of context.
The question is: What does a truly long-term approach to change look like to you?
The Baha’i International Community (BIC) partnered with the NGO Committee on Ageing yesterday to host an online event entitled “A Future that Works: Consulting Across Generations to Build Prosperity.”
