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The Furtherment to Democracy
United Nations Peace Prize
Mild

This resolution proposes the creation of a United Nations Peace Prize that would be presented to a U.N member state diplomat, non-U.N member (NGO) person, Prime Minister, President or leader of a U.N member nation which presents the attributes necessary to ensure lasting peace within U.N member states. The ideal of the Peace Prize is to establish an understanding towards peace for the greater U.N community and to recognize and to reward U.N member citizens that best exemplify that ideal.

U.N diplomats and delegates that become candidates for the United Nations Peace Prize do not need a United Nations mentality in doing their job within the United Nations and can a 'national sovereignty' ideology, that is common within the United Nations, in their proposals and suggestions as long as fundimentally the objective is progress towards world peace.

This resolution proposes that the United Nations Peace Prize should be awarded annually to the individual person that has done the most to further the cause of peace in the world. This Prize will bestow gratitude, honour and prestige upon the recipient from the world community.

Award Process:

1) A candidate for the U.N Peace Prize must be extremely active on the international scene. For instance, if the recipient is a U.N member diplomat or delegate they have to be active in the U.N assembly presenting ideas and proposals to the U.N assembly that reflect a feeling of bringing the world and especially the U.N community to greater peace.

2) The candidate may be selected or referred by other U.N member state delegations that believe they are deserving of such an award.

3) A candidate may be suggested or recommended more than once but cannot be referred more than six times and cannot win the Peace Prize more then three times.

4) A panel of U.N member state diplomats or representatives, or people noted worthy in the field of ensuring peace in the world may select individuals for the voting process from candidates that have been referred by U.N member state diplomats and delegations.

5) Once these individuals have been referred, and have been shortened by the U.N panel short voting period within the halls of the United Nations will complete the process to select the annual winner of the United Nations Peace Prize.

This is going to need a lot of work. Nothing personal, but managing a legal Peace Prize is one of the more difficult things people have tried. I'll leave other issues to the regulars, but what jumps out at me is your category. How does a Peace Prize "restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order"?

A couple of general points:

First, this seems overly restrictive in its scope of candidacy. While, obviously, we consider UN diplomats to have a role in international politics, we wouldn't imagine they're the only ones to do so. If someone else, who represents a non-member, or whose diplomatic function isn't as UN representative, contributes significantly to global peace or exhibits outstanding humanitarian attributes, aren't they worthy of recognition?

Second, the procedure for selecting the recipient doesn't seem workable, given how the UN works. It would be better to set up a panel, that would adjudicate on the prize.

-- George Madison
Legislative Director
Quintessence of Dust Department of UN Affairs

On category, the first proposal of this kind actually was Political Stability, Significant; but I think the second one, which used Global Disarmament, Mild, made the better choice.

I have updated the draft resolution. I believe it needs more work to it and I will take a look to see which category it best falls into.

This has been updated as well.

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We are concerned as to the workability of the final voting process, given the nature of the UN procedures, as the honoured ambassador from the Quintessence of Dust has already observed. Further, we are concerned that you feel the need to include clause 2 at all. Surely such remarks should be part of the preamble or definitions?

I have already accepted, partially Quintessence of Dust, suggestion of entering into a panel and melding it with my idea of having them referred to by U.N diplomats or delegates

Sorry, but that's not how committees work. You can't choose who sits on them. See here (http://forums.jolt.co.uk/showthread.php?t=420465) for more explanation.

How does a Peace Prize "restrict political freedoms in the interest of law and order"?

By causing delegates/nations to restrict their normally insanely free behaviour in the hope of receiving the Peace Prize?

Oh, I'm so looking forward to the citations for this: "Did establish an understanding towards peace for the greater U.N community by ...

Defenestrating all the truly annoying delegates.
Being so annoying everyone else stopped arguing to dogpile him/her.
Staying drunk most of the session, thus preventing inflammatory interventions
Quietly seducing or bribing, rather than haranguing, delegates to change their vote
Glassing the opposition
Boring the opposition into peaceful insensibility."

Oh, and a special category for keeping the balance by Modly Assured Destruction, which would be a walkover -- flyover? -- for Mme Vermithrax Pejorative, she being inherently more destructive than Dr Leary.

(Oganoland, I am not denigrating your idealistic and careful proposal. I hope a mostly-serious discussion of it will remind the General Assembly of the ideals we (supposedly) endorse by being here. Good luck with the revamp.)