Topic: Role of the UN in Encouraging and Aiding Democratization
Country: Jamaica
Delegate Name: Jesse Katch
School: Ann Arbor Community High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Jamaica position papers GLIMUN 2012 committees
It is stated that the UN’s very role is to attempt to bring all countries together for development they cannot accomplish on their own and to bring peace between countries. Therefore, Jamaica believes the role of the UN in relation to whether other countries are a democracy or not is quite important. We believe the UN should enforce democracy in place and encourage non-democracy’s to democratize as much as possible. Jamaica believes when a nation is not a democracy it does not have the ability to offer a fair representation of its general populations views, because without the ability to tally opinions by a vote, there is no way to gather the opinions at all.
Jamaica is a bicameral democracy, which means it has two houses of government that share the power of decision making for the country between them. Our nation believes that democracy is obviously the only fair way to govern a country, as well as the most successful method. Jamaica considers a country to be democratic when the nation’s major officials are selected either directly by the popular vote or indirectly by representatives that were elected by the public. Jamaica also considers some form of checks and balances between different governmental sections to be an essential security measure for a democracy to exist.
The main role of the UN in non-democratic nations should be to educate and inform the public about democracy and how it works successfully in other countries. If the citizens of the country are actively taking steps to try and convert their government, the UN should offer as much help as available. Jamaica believes ANY country denying access to unarmed UN peacekeeping forces should be cut out of the world trade market immediately.
