CONVERSATIONS THAT MATTER

As we struggle to survive COVID and watch the Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is easy — as Augusto Lopez-claros points out — to feel as though “our world is like a bus packed with passengers hurtling along a winding mountain road, with several people fighting for the driver's seat and no one really in control.”

“Across economic, social, and environmental domains, there are increasing predictions of severe crises ahead — some of them possibly taking the world into uncharted territory, with possibly irreversible effects,” he says.

“The resulting fear and frustration are driving the rise of populist movements and the rejection of multilateralism, a turning inward when the need is to reach out to each other and collaborate in finding solutions to our problems.”

The question is, how can we find a coming-together?

The United Nations is not up to the challenge. In his book, Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century, Lopez-claros details a vast array of strategies to address the issues of our time. These are not easy solutions; they will require a co-ordinated focus on universal human prosperity.

Lopez-claros joined a Conversation That Matters about the steps needed to have a serious debate about global order that will ensure sustainability, international peace and security.

See the video at vancouversun. com/tag/conversations-that-matter.