The articles, the opinions, the stories, the poems, the thoughts, the reviews, the photos, the paintings and the cartoons Ovi magazine covers for Monday September 18th, 2023
U.N. General Assembly Starts: “You don’t have to be a weatherman to know the way the wind is blowing.” by Rene Wadlow
With the United Nations General Assembly starting on 19 September 2023, there is a good deal of reflection among governments and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) as to the effectiveness of the U.N. to meet the challenges facing the world community.
In 1992, the then Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali outlined a post Cold War Agenda for Peace. He built his Agenda on four key pillars for U.N. action: Preventive Diplomacy, Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Post-conflict Peacebuilding. Today, these four pillars remain the heart of U.N. action. What is new from 1992 is the increased role of NGOs and potentially of the international business community, both in preventive diplomacy and post-conflict peacebuilding.
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Teachings of an old painter #poem & #painting by Amir Khatib
“We don’t paint to get a star back,
We capture it on paper and the interpretation of jurists.
Rather, let us read the divination of the days in the intersecting and parallel lines that do not meet.
_How do you allow, then, the steps of life and death on the same palm?
In the drawing we see that what is needed is the cities that gave birth to us,
We restore it and furnish it again
Including what we made in our cells behind the paycheck.”
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A fistful of cactus #63 #cartoon by Thanos Kalamidas
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