*Author: Roshan Bhandari
I vividly remember my
childhood days when my grandfather used to narrate the famous story of a farmer
and his always-quarreling sons! The farmer, to teach them a lesson, when gave a
single, separate piece of stick to each of the sons, they could break those
easily while when he provided those sticks in a bundle, none could break.
“Unity is strength!” my grandfather used to exclaim. And yes! To the level of my
understanding, this is the ‘unity’ where-upon has lied every hopes, success of
the United Nations(UN) and the same will carry and materialize the strong
pillars of all visions in the future!
We know, the UN‘s
security council with the motto “to save succeeding
generations from the scourge of war” is working day and
night to maintain the international peace. Meanwhile, what it still needs is
cent percent generous co-operations
from all other members i.e. it longs for the ‘non-selfish unity’ to freely
carry out ‘Conflict prevention and Peacemaking’, Peacekeeping, Peace-building,
‘Women peace and security’ and combat terrorism and organized crimes like drug
trafficking, flesh trade etc. Similarly, the Human Rights Commission urges for
the same unity so that it can work more strongly whether for child rights,
labour rights or women empowerment and so forth. Similarly, whether it is to end
hunger, poverty in all forms everywhere or to take urgent action to combat
climate change and its impacts or to ensure equitable quality education or
healthy lives i.e. to achieve all the post-2015 developmental agendas, an
intensive-unified effort is a must.
In a nutshell, despite
the requirement of funds, manpower etc for every agendas, the basic fruitful
outcomes of all lies in the optimum ‘unity and support’. Therefore, in the days
to come, the UN should and will advance to more strengthened, coordinated and
intensified ‘cold war-free’ unity to
achieve all, if not most, goals in time.
*This article was submitted as one of the competing essays on UNITED NATIONS' website for an essay competition few months back by the author!
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