Added: 05/05/2006 |
Development of global security results from life qualityThe gap in the social and economic development between developed and developing countries is considered to increase in the future years, while experts state that maintaining the security in the world is directly connected with the quality of our life. The Global Cooperation Council considers that the elaboration of clear-cut solutions to problems of developing countries is not to be postponed for the better time.
However, many countries, particularly those of Africa, Asia and Latin America, have long stayed apart from the globalization process. Indeed, this process increased the gap between industrialized and developing countries. These are the countries, where hunger and food crises, racial discrimination and xenophobia, environmental degradation and illiteracy exist and flourish in their strongest forms. What global security can governments speak about, when one-fifth of the developing countries' population still goes hungry every night? This problem is being tried to be solved by German volunteers, who twenty three years ago established the Global Cooperation Council.
The North-South Forum was born in the Bonner "Presseclub" on February 25, 1983. Germans and people with foreign backgrounds, such as ministerial officials, diplomats, journalists and other volunteers, dedicated to promoting the international cooperation, founded an organization with the goal to bring about some understanding through a continuous dialogue. The representatives of the countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America became equal partners of the North-South Forum.
In 1997, the North-South Forum was renamed into the Global Cooperation Council, announcing that the global security becomes a major area of the organization's discussions and actions. Since that time the Council for Global Cooperation discusses global security issues at conferences, forums and meetings as well as conducts a profound analyses of current regional situations in Germany, Africa, Asia and Latin America. The countries cooperate at all the levels in the fields of economy, science, politics, culture, social development and politics.
Presenting significant documents and analyses, the GCC serves as a platform for the open dialogue, dedicated to enhancing all aspects of life in developing countries of Africa, Asia and Latin America. The security of each human live is strongly interdependent on the quality of our life. The estimates, made by the GCC, show that by 2020 the world will have a population of about seven point five billion, more than six billion of whom will live in the today's developing countries.
Hence, all members of the GCC take the subject very seriously and already today ask themselves what kind of people will constitute this population. Will they be illiterate, fearful, poor, ill and hungry? Or will they share concerns, interests, and benefits with other members of a developed international community? Will they be wealthy and capable of actively participating in the process of building the global security?
The GCC appeals to all nations to focus on human security objectives and to create more coherent and coordinated policies and actions in relations between developing and industrialized countries.
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