Business, labor and civil society organizations have skills and resources that are vital in helping to build a more robust global community.
Interpretation
Businesses and organizations play a crucial role in strengthening global connections.
In this quote, Kofi Annan highlights the importance of collaboration between businesses, labor forces, and civil society organizations in fostering a strong and interconnected global community. He suggests that these entities possess unique skills and resources that, when pooled together, can significantly contribute to societal development and enhance global solidarity, thereby emphasizing the value of collective action in addressing worldwide challenges.
In practice
In a speech promoting community engagement, one might say, 'As Kofi Annan wisely noted...'
If you have a problem and you can't find a solution, you meet again tomorrow and you keep talking until you find a solution. You can disagree with behavior or a particular position, but you do not resort to calling an opponent worthless.
Let us remember the large numbers of citizens who, day in and day out, through acts of volunteerism large and small, bring hope to so many of the world's disadvantaged. Let us ensure that this wonderful resource, available in abundance to every nation, is recognized and supported as it works towards a more prosperous and peaceful world.
We may have different religions, different languages, different colored skin, but we all belong to one human race.
The global HIV/AIDS epidemic is an unprecedented crisis that requires an unprecedented response. In particular it requires solidarity - between the healthy and the sick, between rich and poor, and above all, between richer and poorer nations. We have 30 million orphans already. How many more do we have to get, to wake up?
People of different religions and cultures live side by side in almost every part of the world, and most of us have overlapping identities which unite us with very different groups. We can love what we are, without hating what β and who β we are not. We can thrive in our own tradition, even as we learn from others, and come to respect their teachings.
Democracy is, in essence, a form of non-violent conflict management. If war is the worst enemy of development, healthy and balanced development is the best form of conflict prevention.
Many people are good at talking about what they are doing, but in fact do little. Others do a lot but don't talk about it; they are the ones who make a community live.
Without strong communities, we cannot pull together during times of hardship. Our diversity turns from a source of strength to a source of conflict.
Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.
Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.
Busy people tend to forgo the one activity - TV watching _ that is most lethal to community involvement
As a community, we create a lot of space for fighting and pushing back, but not enough for connecting and healing.
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