UN Centenary Musical

Education for All, Health for all, to end Poverty for all or a world that leaves no one behind.

Index:

1. The Original UN Centenary Peace Child Script;

2. Outline for 3-part TV series on the Past, Present & Future of Global Collaboration

Hyperlinks to Key Peace Child Intl. & UN Summit of the Future Documents:

· Our Common Agenda
· UN Day State of the Planet Report – short version & Long version
· People’s Pact for the Future
· PCI’s Environmental Governance Proposals for the People’s Pact
· Zero Draft Declaration on Future Generations
· Peace Child International Commentary on the Zero Draft
· Final Agreed Text of the UN Pact for the Future (to come)
· Final Agreed Text of the Declaration on Future Generations (to come)

Background Reading Resources – Papers, Articles and Opinion Pieces:

1. Secretary-General’s Climate Speeches

2. The Real Climate Emergency

3. The George Monbiot Compendium

4. The Global Population Crisis

5. Green is Cheaper

6. Planetary Boundaries

7. The Great Unravelling

8. UNICEF on Youth Optimism

9. NATO on Putin's Revolution against the West

10. The UK's New Anti-protest laws: government attempts to preventing public protest designed to "enable future generations to meet their needs

11. The challenge of eliminating Fossil Fuels - how the fossil fuel companies fight back

Solutions

12. Read Nuclear War - A scenario by Annie Jacobsen: It offers compelling proof of why Solution No.1 has to be TOTAL elimination of nuclear weapons from our planet;

13. A Wealth Tax: Put a 2% tax on the world's 3000 billionaires

14. Abolish the Veto: The 1st Step to making the UN more effective;

INTRODUCTION

The UN Centenary Peace Child, to be launched in 2025 on the occasion of the United Nations’ 80^th Anniversary, features a story of how, in the next 20 years, today’s generation of young people deliver on promises made by the UN in its first 80 years but failed to keep: it has failed to deliver Education for All, Health for all, to end Poverty for all or a world that leaves no one behind. Worst, it has failed to deliver current or future generations from the scourge of war or to ensure that either have the ability, successfully, to meet their own needs and aspirations.

The 1st UN Centenary Peace Child Script uses the UN Declaration on Future Generations as the backdrop to it plot-line. Once passed, future plot-lines will develop it further. This 1st one is a story of conscientious objectors mobilizing public support for the UN to fulfil its central purpose to save them “from the scourge of war.” But quickly, these young conscientious objectors find that there is a whole lot more happening in the world to which their consciences object with vehement passion. Though the UN has made some progress on many of issues and delivered the big wins of an end to Colonial Empires and, to date(!), avoiding World War III, the UN is looking increasingly marginalised. A feeling is beginning to circulate that the UN may not be the institution to deliver on its many promises, let alone the key future concerns relating to climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental pollution. As the current Secretary-General has stated: “We can’t build a future for our grand-children with a system built for our grand-parents”

So the rising generation of “We the Young Peoples…” has to devise a different system of global collaboration to deliver on the UN’s promises and resolve the existential threats they face. Peace Child is a safe creative space in which to imagine and discuss those different systems but it needs a wider audience. This is why our UN Centenary Peace Shows are designed to be woven into a Global TV series on the Past, Present and future of Global Collaboration.