Topic: Improving Political Conflict Resolution Mechanisms
Country: Norway
Delegate Name: Liam McCollum
School: Mattawan High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Norway position papers GLIMUN 2012 committees
Norway sees that while Our Political Conflict Resolutions Mechanisms have bent over backwards to accommodate countries' sovereign rights to domestic affairs, that there is a serious threat to the entire world forming due to recent global political uprisings. While these glorified uprisings encourage people of the world to question their leadership and assert their democratic rights, their violent and headstrong methods of achieving these rights are unacceptable to those who value peace in this world.
Norway thinks that when people rise up against authoritarian leaders and demand reforms and universal rights, they should be backed by the UN. However, many nations feel that the UN should respect sovereign rights of nations and allow individual nations to address their own issues. These countries fail to realize that the global nature of our economy means that a revolution in one country affects the entire world's economy, and therefore entails a global responsibility for all domestic revolts.
Norway asserts that as a result of this worldwide political and economic responsibility, the UN should become more expansive in its efforts to prevent and resolve domestic conflicts in a nation, with a focus on promoting peaceful negotiations as an alternative to the vehement riots that have become a trend in today's society. If these promotions fail, however, forced meetings may be necessary in order for the parties involved to resolve their differences. In this case, as a last alternative, the UN should be an involved and well meaning moderator, who promotes the two sides to communicate with each other and work out their differences peacefully.
