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1st January 1971

Discrimination and Fragmentation in the 1970s

An organized response to global crisis

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Introduction

October 1970 saw the commemoration of the 25th Anniversary of the United Nations. January 1971 represents the start of the United Nations Second Development Decade. This short period also gave rise to several other events which merit consideration as symptoms of long-term trends in the evolution of United Nations thinking.

In the following sections, texts illustrating these incidents - and others which preceded them over the last two or three years - are quoted to permit readers to come to their own conclusions:

• Part 1 : The UN System's Ivory Tower Strategy and the death knell of INGO Consultative Status (Originally published in International Associations, 23, 1971, 1, pp. 28-48; PDF version)
• Part 2 : From Apartheid to Schizophrenia: ecological ignorance and the logic of depersonalized "separate development" (Originally published in International Associations, 23, 1971, 2, pp. 89-102; PDF version)
• Part 3 : A World in Distress: a model of fragmented "social development" (Originally published in International Associations, 23, 1971, 2, pp. 107-108; PDF version)

These texts are published on the web because in many respects they might have formed the basis for an article on Discrimination and Fragmentation in the 2000s

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