If globalization is to realise its potential as a force for good, we have to look more closely at the means by which we handle our growing interdependence. We do not have a world government, but we do have an increasingly complex network of institutions that are concerned with global governance. They are central to our future and international human rights law
Interpretation
Globalization can be beneficial, but requires careful management of our interconnectedness and governance.
This quote emphasizes the importance of understanding and improving the way we manage our growing interconnectedness in a globalized world. While globalization has the potential to bring about positive change, it is essential to navigate the complexities of international governance and human rights to ensure that these benefits are realized for everyone.
In practice
In a speech about international collaboration, this quote can underscore the necessity of shared governance.
We are working towards a shared vision of the future for health among all the world's people. A vision future in which we develop new ways of working together at global and national level. A vision which has poor people and poor communities at its centre. And a vision which focuses action on the causes and consequences of the health conditions that create and perpetuate poverty.
More than ever before, there is a global understanding that long-term social, economic, and environmental development would be impossible without healthy families, communities, and countries
You cannot achieve environmental security and human development without addressing the basic issues of health and nutrition.
The dual scourge of hunger and malnutrition will be truly vanquished not only when granaries are full, but also when people's basic health needs are met and women are given their rightful role in societies
Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
You cannot tackle hunger, disease, and poverty unless you can also provide people with a healthy ecosystem in which their economies can grow.
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
War is the unfolding of miscalculations.
When your inner mantra becomes 'How may I serve?' rather than 'What am I going to get?' and 'Who do I need to defeat?,' you start to see the unfolding of God in everything and everyone around you and you shift into higher consciousness.
He is unworthy of the name of man who is ignorant of the fact that the diagonal of a square is incommensurable with its side.
When you have become God's in the measure he desires, then he himself will bestow you upon others; unless, to your greater glory, he chooses to keep you all to himself.
We often assume that if we are good people we will not suffer the ills of the world.
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