The WOT Syndrome, the DIP Factor and the MDG goals

The UN’s Millennium Development Goals (MDG) for 2015 are: end poverty and hunger, universal primary education, gender equality, child health, maternal health, combat HIV/AIDS, environmental sustainability, global partnership. I believe they are basic God given rights to everyone. Ten years after the declaration of MDG, the world is still searching for an answer as to why we are failing to achieve them.

Are we willing to achieve these goals or are we just willing to discuss them? Believers should deliver their belief in action. If governments and institutions believe in MDG, we should have seen the fruits of success by now. Why aren’t they achieved?

Part of the answer to this question is, in my opinion, the current focus on the security mentality which in recent years has exhausted our financial, logistical and intellectual resources. This could undermine the achievement of MDG by 2015. This is why we are still suffering at the cause of the DIP Factor (Disease, Ignorance, Poverty) and the WOT Syndrome (War On Terror).

It is time to set aside political indecisiveness and, instead, concentrate our efforts on saving the planet.