The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Friday June 24th, 2022.
Growing discontent across Malay society – This could be UMNO’s gravest challenge by Murray Hunter
The Johor Sultan Ibrahim Sultan Iskandar’s declaration during the opening of The Johor State Parliament, declared Johor may choose to secede from Malaysia if the federal government fails to fulfil its rights as written within the Federation of Malaya Agreement.
This statement has a number of layers of meaning.
Outwardly, this is a demand for more funding. The Sultan is claiming Johor has been neglected and this needs to change. Deeper down, there is a message concerning disenchantment between a state and the federal government. At an even deeper level, the message indicates friction between different groups within the Malay polity.
This is already beginning to have a ripple effect across other peninsula states.
The Malay-centric parties have neglected their support base
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Interrogatives #poem by Neil Leadbeater
“Those days we could use interrogatives like
Did I tell you about the heatwave in July?
and get a Yes /No answer
without alarming the young
about global warming”
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Norman Cousins: A Pioneer of Track II Diplomacy by Rene Wadlow
World Citizen Norman Cousins (24 June 1915-30 November 1990) was a pioneer of Track II diplomacy. Track I is official government to government diplomacy among instructed representative of the State. Track II is a non-official effort, usually by a non-governmental organization (NGO) or an academic institution. Track II talks are discussions held by non-officials of conflicting parties in an attempt to clarify outstanding disputes and to explore the options for resolving them in settings that are less public or less sensitive than those associated with official negotiations.
Track II talks can also be defined by what they are not: neither academic conferences nor secret diplomacy conducted by government representatives. At a minimum, Track II talks are aimed at an exchange of views, perceptions and information between the parties to improve each side’s understanding of the other’s positions and policies. While Track II talks need not necessarily be linked to concurrent Track I negotiations, participants in Track II must have some relations with officials in their countries’ decision-making circles for such talks to be effective.
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Ephemera #61 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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