Uganda: To Achieve Lasting Peace, We Must Ensure Equal Opportunity for All

26 September 2018
opinion

Coming from the devastating ruins of the World War II in 1946, world leaders founded the UN. The body was charged with the specific mission of ensuring world peace and order. Considering that the ramifications of the war were sending universal shocks and intensifying the magnitude of general suffering across the world such as the increase in poverty, and political instability, the newly-founded body would quickly adopt the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 1948.

This document was unanimously celebrated as a common standard of achievement for all people and all nations. The increasing co-existence and neighbourliness of economies was clearer. Dialogue as a means of failure of mitigating a vicious state of affairs was preferred as a means to avert instability. Questions on peace, which had largely belonged to national jurisdictions, would later be internationalised, breaking through the chains of the much coveted ideology of non-interference. Peace ceased to be the mere absence of war, but also the ability of the citizens of the global place to enjoy in generality and without arbitrary refusal their rights, including access to the basic needs of health, food and safe water and free participation in their democratic governance.

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