Global Security Initiative and Human Rights Guarantee

Crispin Kugiza Kaheru

By way of a quick overview, ladies and gentlemen, the GSI aims at creating a new pathway to resolving conflict and guaranteeing security. It seeks to promote dialogue over confrontation, partnership over alliances, but more importantly it seeks to encourage win-win situations over zero-sum game settlements. 
 

I should also add that: No society and I repeat, no society is devoid of disagreements; but how we choose to settle these disagreements is what many times makes a clear distinction; the distinction between civilized and primitive leaderships.  Ladies and gentlemen, the GSI only re-affirms the rejection of the use of force in international relations and the settlement of international disputes by peaceful means on the basis of the UN Charter on the right of the people to peace. 
 

In a world where a lopsided drive towards "improving" human rights conditions around the world has in many cases resulted into dramatic widening of the wealth gap, worsening hunger and the rise of terrorism, the right thing to do, is to stop, re-think and change course. China is not only proposing the way, but it is also sharing its experiences, it is leading the way and peacefully turning the tide. It has made the right to development achievable. Many countries now have a fresh of optimism – if China can do it, then every other country can do it.
 

The Global Security Initiative is an action-oriented architecture.  It has in part exposed the inadequacies of the current normative framework of the international human rights system. Already, it has practically demonstrated that global peace is possible through peaceful means. The GSI must therefore quickly albeit peacefully integrate with both the conventional and new spaces to rebalance global political and security architecture from competition to cooperation. This requires a committed community of practice to deliver both broadly and urgently on the implementation mechanisms. (Actions speak louder than words).