[governance] "Oversight"

[Norbert Bollow]

parminder <parminder at itforchange.net> wrote:
> I agree that a simple shift from US to another body is not enough. But 
> since in the discharge of the oversight role, commission is a much 
> bigger issue than omission, it is certainly better if say 15 other 
> country reps have to simultaneously agree to an act of commission along 
> with the US rather than US getting to decide it alone. And that much 
> better if there is an international law to clearly describe the 
> oversight role, its procedures and limits, and an international judicial 
> system to adjudicate whether the concerned body acted as per the 
> relevant international law. None of this exists at present vis a vis 
> US's exercise of the oversight role. It just a bunch of people convinced 
> that US's is a good and benign government. Hardly a good basis for a 
> global governance system.

The question is: How we can realistically move forward to improve
the situation, in such a way that we can expect to eventually reach a
good global governance system?

Greetings,
Norbert

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