Encyclopedia of World Problems

In 1993 the Millennium Institute, with the support of the Council for a Parliament of the World's Religions, prepared a report on the critical issues facing the 21st century. Entitled Global 2000 Revisited: what shall we do?, it was written by Gerald Barney who had directed preparation of The Global 2000 Report to the President of the USA in 1980. The spiritual leaders of some 200 religions were represented at the Parliament in Chicago where the report formed part of the keynote speech.

In January 1995 the Management Development and Governance Division of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) published a discussion paper on Public Sector Management, Governance, and Sustainable Development. This was the result of several stages of internal and external consultation.

The report of the independent International Commission on Peace and Food was published in 1994 under the title Uncommon Opportunities: an agenda for peace and equitable development. It was the result of work initiated in 1988 and significantly funded by UNDP and UNESCO. It followed the pattern of earlier independent commissions.

1. Optimism

In 1994 Yehezkel Dror presented a commissioned report to the Club of Rome on The Capacity to Govern, building on an earlier report by the Club (Note 6.1). As one of the founders of the discipline of policy sciences, and a prolific author on the more challenging dimensions of governance, the Dror report can useful be seen as a valuable challenge to the work of the Commission on Global Governance (Note 6.2).

1. Challenging approaches to governance

In 1994 the Commission on Global Governance reported on its efforts to articulate a strategically appropriate response to the challenges of the international community. The Commission emerged as a consequence of a report in 1991: Common Responsibility in the 1990's: the Stockholm Initiative on Global Security and Governance, which received the endorsement of many world leaders. The report appeared under the title: Our Global Neighbourhood, drawing on the reports of previous independent commissions.

In 1991 the Council of the Club of Rome produced a report The First Global Revolution (edited by Alexander King and Bertrand Schneider). The report first summarizes the world problematique and then presents the need for a resolutique in response.

1. World problematique

This section provides commentaries on governance related to the Global Strategies and Solutions area of the Encyclopedia of World Problems and Human Potential

Related Sections

1. Background

This note provides the link to the discussion of configuring strategies under Transformative Approaches in Volume 2 (Section TZ, Note 11), and to the tables and diagrams printed on the pages following that note.

1. "Global bargains" through more complex structure

1. Strategy limitations and dynamics