GFDD, FUNGLODE and ANU-RD Launch 2007 State of the Future Report

Global Foundation for Democracy and Development (GFDD), Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo’s International Studies Center and the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic (UNA-DR) announced the launch of the
2007 State of the Future report in Spanish, Thursday, February 7, 2008, at FUNGLODE Headquarters in Santo Domingo.

 

During the event, prominent development experts, Jerome Glenn, Director of the World Federation of the United Nations (WFUNA), and Theodore Gordon,
Associate Director of the Millennium Project, presented the report, which delineates the fifteen principal challenges facing the global community, amongst them, realizing sustainable development, ensuring universal access to potable water, establishing and advancing legitimate democracies, and reducing ethnic conflict and terrorism, as well as recommended resolution strategies. Both speakers stressed that the main objective of the report is to identify future obstacles in order to work
proactively to avoid them.

 

 “The 2007 Future of the State report is an informative publication that offers an invaluable vision of the future of the United Nations, its Member States and civil society,” stated the Untited Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, in response to the report.

 

The fifteen global challenges facilite the evaluation of global and local perspectives on humanity. These challenges are in constant interaction, and the solutions for each of them are intertwined. Efforts to mitigate the effects of one challenge will in turn aid in the management and resolution of the other challenges. Failure to address one will inevitably negatively impact the state of the other pressing concerns.

 

GFDD and FUNGLODE collaboratively organize events that promote the advancement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals with the United Nations Association of the Dominican Republic.

 

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