GEN ED Contemporary World

• Globalization is the increasing connectedness and interdependence of world cultures and economies.
• Deterritorialization is the weakening of ties between culture and place.
• Sustainable Developmental Goal 3
• Migration is a significant aspect of globalization.
• Global media and communication technologies are a crucial part of globalization.
• New forms of social movements and activism are emerging as a result of globalization.
• New artistic forms and genres are being created due to globalization.
• New technologies are a part of globalization.
• Liberal trade policies are a means to achieve globalization.
• Hunger Crisis and Water Scarcity are interrelated challenges affecting millions of people around the world.
• The first World, also known as the winning side, includes countries that won during war.
• Sustainable Development goal 14 aims to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas, and marine resources for sustainable development.
• Paris Agreement aims to keep the global temperature rise to below 2 degree Celsius.
• Marine Ecosystem Deterioration is the decline of the health and diversity of marine life due to human activities, such as overfishing, pollution, habitat destruction, and acidification.
• Judaism is a monotheistic religion founded by Abraham and Moses, with 14.7 million adherents, or 0.2% of the worlds population.
• Confucianism is a philosophical and ethical system founded by Confucius (Kongzi), with about 50 million followers.
• Taoism is a philosophical and religious system founded by Laozi (Lao Tsu), with about 4 million followers.
• Climate Crisis is the result of human activities that increase greenhouse gas emissions and cause global warming and its impacts, such as extreme weather events, sea level rise, biodiversity loss, and health risk.
• Hinduism is a polytheistic religion native to India, with about 1.16 Billion followers.
• The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a political and military alliance of 30 countries from Europe and North America, founded in 1949 by 12 countries that signed the North Atlantic Treaty, also known as the Washington Treaty.
• The third world includes countries that are not in war and are not developed.
• Sustainable Development goal 2 aims to end hunger, achieve food security, improve nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture.
• Hunger Crisis and COVID 19 are interrelated challenges of food insecurity and the pandemic caused by the novel corona virus.
• Islam is a monotheistic religion founded by Muhammad, with about 1.8 Billion followers or 24% of the Worlds population.
• Samuel Huntington, author of Clash of Civilizations, categorizes the world into Global North (Rich) and Global South (poor).
• Christianity is a monotheistic religion founded by Jesus Christ, with about 2.39 Billion followers or 31-32% of the Worlds population.
• Health Issues are a global concern.
• Buddhism is a nontheistic religion founded by Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha), with about 506 million followers.
• Initiated by Australian Prime Minister Bob Hawke in January 1989, the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) was established in Canberra with the first meeting of Apec in 1989.
• The second World, also known as the losing side, includes countries that lost during the war.
• Shintoism is a polytheistic and animistic religion native to Japan, with about 4 million adherents.
• The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) consists of 13 oil producing countries that coordinate their petroleum policies and provide technical and economic aid to each other, established in Baghdad in 1960 by Iraq, Iran, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
• In the 1970s, criticism of the dominant paradigm led to the emergence of dependency theory, with social movements and NGOs as the main actors.
• The Washington Consensus and neoliberalism emerged in the 1980s as the main actors.
• The World Trade Organization (WTO) is headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland.
• In the 1990s, the complexity of development challenges and the diversity of development experience led to new perspectives and approaches, with UN agencies as the main actors.
• The World Trade Organization (WTO) is the successor to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and is the permanent institution for global trade governance.
• Ngozi Okonjo Iwaela is the Director General of the World Trade Organization (WTO).
• The Bretton Woods Conference in 1947 led to the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) with the aim of promoting international trade by reducing or eliminating trade barriers such as tariffs or quotas.
• The World Trade Organization (WTO) has 164 member countries and 24 observers.