 Global Integration UpdatesCommon Ground for the Common Good Be the people we need--Build the world we need
Special News--May 2021Tracking Important News
Issues, Insights, Involvements Image courtesy and © 2021 JMLOD
“The world is indeed full of peril, and in it there are many dark places;
but still there is much that is fair, and though in all lands love
is now mingled with grief, it grows perhaps the greater.”
The Fellowship of the Ring, Tolkien---------- In this Update we feature two news sources to help track with important, cutting edge information, focusing on the overlapping international, development, and humanitarian sectors. Both news sources send out weekly updates and provide ongoing/archived information on their websites:
--The New Humanitarian
--United Nations, Department of Global Communications
We also include additional organizations that similarly provide news, resources, and analyses with global through local emphases. Have a look below and consider how you might want to review these sources in view of the issues, insights, and involvements that are most relevant for you--and our world!
We also continue to share Reflections and Resources for Covid Care (click on previous link to access). These materials have been compiled over the past year to support you, others in your life, and your work. In sharing these materials, we acknowledge that there are many views about this pandemic including how best to manage it and future health emergencies via science, policy, and public cooperation.
See these related Global Integration Updates:
--March 2021: Global Trends–Perspectives and Priorities from the Sectors
--February 2020: Wellbeing for Who? Global Reports from Seven Sectors
--February 2019: Seven Sectors–Short Summaries Warm greetings,
Kelly and Michèle
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Tracking Important News
Issues, Insights, Involvements
Image: UN Geneva [Surprises and setbacks] should not deter us from responding as best we can, using our talents to improve this always mixed record of trying “to save generations from the scourge of war,” “to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights,” and “to promote social progress and better standards of life in larger freedom.” The original Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations had it right. The question is, can we do it?...the only answer as far as I can see it, is by trying…and not giving up. Paul Kennedy, The Parliament of Man: The Past, Present, and Future of the United Nations, 2006 (pp. 279, 289) ---------- --United Nations, Department of Global Communications, Civil Society Unit. Weekly announcements. about the UN and joint UN-Civil Society events, issues, and resources. See the latest weekly update HERE. Sign up HERE.
“The United Nations is indispensable as a forum for building a better world and solving complex and evolving challenges. It brings together all countries and different actors to take concerted action across the global community to make a positive difference in people’s lives and for the planet.
The Department of Global Communications tells this UN story across multiple platforms, digital and traditional, to build support for the aims and work of the United Nations. Through our global operations and offices in 60 countries, we reach millions of people with trusted, objective information and an inclusive message that enables the public, civil society, private sector and Member States to engage in the work of the United Nations. Communicating in more than 80 languages, the Department embodies the United Nations principle of multilingualism, extending our impact to all corners of the world.” (quote from UN DGC website)
See also:
--UN Web TV. “The UN Live and on Demand”
--United Nations Development Programme, Development Dialogues Digest. “Telling the development dialogues story through video, human impact stories, and more.” Review the website and sign up for the Digest HERE.
--Devex. A major media platform and source of news for the global development community. Review and sign up for their various newsletters HERE.
--The New Humanitarian, Weekly Roundup. See the latest edition HERE. Sign up for the Weekly Roundup HERE.
“The New Humanitarian puts quality, independent journalism at the service of the millions of people affected by humanitarian crises around the world. We report from the heart of conflicts and disasters to inform prevention and response. As the trusted news source on humanitarian crises, we deliver the authentic, inside story. Our reporting gives insight to policymakers, practitioners and others who want to make the world more humane.
The New Humanitarian (formerly IRIN News) was founded by the United Nations in 1995, in the wake of the Rwandan genocide, out of the conviction that objective on-the-ground reporting of humanitarian crises could help mitigate or even prevent future disasters of that magnitude. Almost twenty years later, we became an independent non-profit news organisation, allowing us to cast a more critical eye over the multibillion-dollar emergency aid industry and draw attention to its failures at a time of unprecedented humanitarian need. As digital disinformation went global, and mainstream media retreated from many international crisis zones, our field-based, high-quality journalism filled even more of a gap. Today, we are one of only a handful of newsrooms world-wide specialised in covering crises and disasters – and in holding the aid industry accountable.” (quote from website)
See also:
--UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Humanitarian InSight. Background information HERE.
--Global Geneva Magazine and website. Sign up for updates on the website. “Launched in December, 2016 by a group of foreign correspondents, editors and media specialists concerned about the deteriorating state of credible reporting worldwide, Global Geneva is an independent, international print and online journalism publication in the public interest…Our quarterly print/e-edition is Global Insights Magazine (formerly Global Geneva), while Youth Writes is our worldwide young people’s initiative that began in 2019. We publish mainly in English, but are currently developing content in French in order to reach out to the international francophone community as an indispensable component of our outreach. Global Geneva is the only English-language print/online journalism publication that serves the so-called “International Geneva” community…The Lake Geneva region alone, which includes neighbouring France, is the hub for 14 United Nations agencies, the international or European headquarters of dozens of corporations and foundations, plus hundreds of non-governmental organizations.” (quote from website)
--Peace and Community Development Network (PCDN Global). Sign up for the daily or weekly updates on their website. Member Care Associates Inc. (MCA) is a non-profit, Christian organization working internationally from Geneva and the USA. MCA's involvement in Global Integration focuses on the wellbeing and effectiveness of personnel and their organizations across sectors (e.g., mission, humanitarian, peace, health, and development sectors) as well as global mental health and integrity/anti-corruption, all with a view towards collaboratively supporting sustainable development for all people and the planet. Our services include consultation, training, research, resource development, and publications.
Global Integration Global Integration (GI) is a framework for actively and responsibly engaging in our world--locally to globally. It emphasizes connecting relationally and contributing relevantly on behalf of human wellbeing and the issues facing humanity, in light of our integrity, commitments, and core values (e.g., ethical, humanitarian, human rights, faith-based). GI encourages a variety of people to be at the “global tables” and in the "global trenches"--and everything in-between--in order to help research, shape, and monitor agendas, policies, and action for all people and the planet. It intentionally links building the world we need with being the people we need. Global Integration Updates The GI Updates are designed to help shape and support the emerging diversity of global integrators who as learners-practitioners are committed to the "common ground for the common good."
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Human progress never rolls in on wheels of inevitability;
it comes through the tireless efforts of men willing to be coworkers with God,
and without this hard work, time itself becomes an ally of the forces of social stagnation.
Martin Luther King, Jr., Letter from a Birmingham Jail (April 1963) |
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