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...becomes smaller, international bodies such as the United Nations and the World Trade Organization are playing similar roles on a global stage. Yet despite this growing clout (or perhaps because of it) the public's faith in institutions appears to be waning. On the eve of the World Economic Forum in Davos, we look at the reasons for this credibility crisis?and, in a series of profiles, get the bottom-up view from people whose stories of disaffection and alienation may contain clues for rebuilding the trust that binds nations and communities together...
...George W. Bush, British Prime Minister Tony Blair and their colleagues in dozens of other countries, as well as to the heads of global institutions and corporations from IBM to the International Monetary Fund. As political and business leaders ready themselves for their annual trek to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, they do so at a time when the mistrust of authority--and an increasingly vocal disrespect for it--has gone global...
...protest. Thanks to the Internet, every individual's gripe can now be amplified and diffused to a mass audience, whether the gripers are retired Americans whose pension benefits have been slashed or Chinese peasants who have lost their farmland to the nation's torrid industrialization. A recent World Economic Forum poll of more than 20,000 people in 20 countries revealed that public trust in national governments, the U.N. and multinational companies has dropped significantly over the past two years and is close to the lows recorded after the terrorist attacks of Sept...
...emotional friction that often locks systems and organizations solid," says John Elkington, founder of a nongovernmental organization (NGO) called Sustain Ability that focuses on corporate responsibility and sustainable development. NGOs such as Greenpeace and Amnesty International have led the attack against companies and governments, and the World Economic Forum poll shows that NGOs today are the organizations most trusted by the public. But distrust is growing even of NGOs, particularly in such countries as India, Brazil and South Korea. "People will ask, Who are these people, and to whom are they accountable?" says Elkington...
...excerpt from Taylor Branch's biography of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. [Jan. 9] was superb. It helped show the personal side of the man. I disagree, however, with Jesse Jackson, who in TIME's forum, "What If He Were Alive Today?", said that King would be challenging the war in Iraq. I think King would be less concerned about U.S. actions in Iraq than about seeing the failure of his dream of social justice and equality in this country. The U.S. now seems even more inclined than it was in King's day to treat people differently just because...