DSF Charter
DSF
partners and collaborators agree to abide by the following guidelines
in the conduct of their work:
- DSF works
to advance the common interests of all global citizens, regardless of
nationality, race, religion, gender, creed or wealth;
- DSF acts
to bridge the growing gap between conventional nation-state diplomacy
and the changing needs of 21st century people and organizations;
- DSF complements
and supplements official government diplomacy, and actively supports
its development;
- DSF is
a private, independent organization, and maintains full discretion over
its decision-making, policies, policy endorsements, and mandates;
- General
guidelines for DSF decision-making, operating principles, and conduct
are embodied in the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights
of 1948:
Our
modern notion of an international society composed of a heterogeneous
collection of fictitious entities called states, all supposed to be
equal, sovereign and completely independent, would have shocked both
the idealism and the common sense of the fifteenth century.
Such
a society would have seemed to philosophers a repulsive anarchy, and
contradiction to their basic assumption of a hierarchically ordered
universe - almost a blasphemy. And the concept would have been
equally uncomfortable to practical statesmen.
Garrett Mattingly, diplomatic historian, in "Renaissance Diplomacy" |
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