Journal 6

One of the questions that I have been asking myself this week is; how does the searching of CPI or “cost of living” for these regions apply to the work that is being done here at the United Nations. The answer is that it is data. That isn’t the best answer in the world, I think, but it is applicable and incredibly copacetic with the purpose of many of the goals intended by the United Nations. The United Nations is in many senses very limited in the scope of things that it can get done. Rather, the great contribution that the UN provides to the world is its ability to create vast storehouses of knowledge that can then be used in discussion around the world.

 

This is so very much the case in places like Kyrgyzstan and other developing countries. Without the research done by the UN and its subsidiaries, like the United Nations University, great strides in human development would be severely hindered. One of the primary goals of the United Nations and every country that is a part of the UN is to provide a platform for discussion. Even in situations where the purpose might seem limited in scope of time. For example, in 2002 or, “the international year of mountains”, one of the biggest purposes of the UN was to create committees that could be used to springboard discussions and bring greater understanding where there wasn’t any before. For this reason, sustainable mountain development and other previous issues are still being targeted today.

 

And to wrap it all up in a bow, that is the purpose of the documentation I collected.