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Non Governmental International Organizations, Or Igos, And The International Organization

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1. Intergovernmental organizations, or IGOs, are players in the international setting, attempting to establish common grounds between the different members, or in other words countries involved (Rourke and Boyer 2010, G-6). Examples of IGOs include the following: “United Nations, European Union, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and the African Union” (Wilkinson 2007). Non-governmental international organizations, or NGOs, attempt to make substantial changes and promote their specific values to certain aspects of the world, like human rights issues and the environment, by utilizing their non-association with the government and their NGO status with special access to the media and diplomatic measures (Steinberg 2011, 44; Steinberg …show more content…

For example, there are different communities on a designated piece of land. This piece of land is considered the ‘Commons,’ in this case, as all of the different communities use the land for a specific use. Since the ‘Commons’ is the land, it is free to all of the communities. As the different communities are constantly in competition with one another to get more of their specific use out of the land, they overuse it. This overuse eventually ruins the land. The communities are no longer able to support themselves without being able to carry out their specific use of the land, because the land is ruined. This causes each of the communities to falter. The designated land’s society is destroyed, becoming the ‘Tragedy’ referred to in the ‘Tragedy of the Commons.’ The ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ is an example of how a society can destroy themselves, such as the inhabitants of Earth destroying themselves by overusing our non-renewable and renewable resources, to the point where we will no longer have those resources to support ourselves. This, in turn, will destroy the planet and life as we know it.
3. Human rights are the basic rights that all living beings are guaranteed, no matter what “nationality, ethnicity, religion, or other individual characteristics” they are or have (Diez, Bode, and Costa 2011). These basic rights are thought to be upheld universally, but are often contested by

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