Topic: Long-Term Rebuilding Strategy Following Natural Disaster
Country: Switzerland
Delegate Name: Elizabeth Allen
School: Fishers High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Switzerland position papers GLIMUN 2011 committees
Switzerland strongly believes that rebuilding strategy following a natural disaster needs to be efficient and help all people in need. First, Switzerland would like to discuss the importance of reducing the risks of its people as well as the countries of the U.N. with the immensely beneficial UNEP program with branches in Geneva as well as Switzerland.
As spoken in 2002 when Switzerland was first entered into the U.N., Switzerland wants to work on humanitarian works and keep the peace throughout the world. With that includes environmental peace and balance. Switzerland would like to stress the amount of natural disaster that occur each year throughout the country, and without a proper plan and system of recovery, Switzerland will be in shambles. The people of Switzerland want to see a lower risk of harm to their country after many years of natural disaster striking their homeland, and ruining their country. In the past thirty years, almost ten thousand people have been effected in some way by a natural disaster, and the people of Switzerland wants to see change in the way that these situations are handled.
Switzerland wants peace in their homeland, as well as in all the countries of the world, and by having chaos because of lack of initiative in natural disaster prevention and recovery is not the way to go. Switzerland wants to increase funds for recovery and rebuilding after natural disasters to benefit both its own country and all of the other countries affected by disasters. In the past, Switzerland has funded a branch of relief called UNEP which helps pre and post-crisis. UNEP has partnered with over forty countries in response to crisis situations and disasters around the globe. UNEP’s take on the recovery after a crisis is “in the aftermath of a crisis, UNEP implements environmental recovery programmes through field-based project offices to support long-term stability and sustainable development in conflict and disaster-affected countries.” Switzerland wants peace around the world, and providing long-term rebuilding strategies and recovery techniques will help achieve this goal as well as benefit countries economically.
Switzerland believes that the U.N. should continue to support and increase funding on UNEP and other organizations that involve disaster prevention and recovery. While these organizations cost much money to sustain, property damage as well as damage to the country’s economy make up for the losses in these programs. The people of Switzerland propose the U.N. takes a more in depth look on natural disasters and how effective organizations that help the recovery of countries affected are in terms of economics and wellbeing of the country. These organizations will truly affect all people in need of help in concerns to the state of each country in need.
" UNEP – Disasters and Conflicts." United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) – Home page . N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2011. <http://www.unep.org/disastersandconflicts/>.
"Disaster Statistics – Switzerland – Europe – Countries & Regions – PreventionWeb.net." PreventionWeb.net Homepage – Serving the information needs of the disaster reduction community. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2011. <http://www.preventionweb.net/english/countries/statistics/?cid=167>.
"Natural Disasters – Security Switzerland | TakingUpResidence.com Switzerland." TakingUpResidence – Guiding you abroad – Up to date moving & relocation guides online. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2011. <http://www.takingupresidence.com/switzerland/security/natural-disasters.5.html>.
"WITH ADMISSION OF SWITZERLAND, UNITED NATIONS FAMILY NOW NUMBERS 190 MEMBER STATES." Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your World. N.p., n.d. Web. 6 Nov. 2011. <http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2002
