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PROJECTING OUR COMMON FUTURE!

One thing is obvious beyond any doubt - our World is becoming more and more unmanageable every day! It is becoming more complex, more sophisticated, more exclusive and less comprehensive, less transparent, less ethical - it becomes more unsecure and less democratic with its every revolving turn around the Sun. In such a nonsustainable social context, we will soon be all in the same position, some sooner and some later.

But, whilst grown-up people, who are fully responsible for their doings, are in a position to change the way things are going, we, the Global Youth, are not. We are totally dependent on our eleders until we become elder too! This pattern of intergenerational socio-economic relations has to be changed immediately, if we really want to becaome a driving social force for our common sustainable Future (and everybody expect from us to be so). This is why we have prepared this Act, so as to unite Global Youth Power in a new, transparent and sustainable manner, related to all everyday consequences of the ICT revolutions that are taking place all over the world now. This Act is based upon various UN, ILO, WB, etc. Recommendations, resolutions, declarations, annual reports facts & figures, etc. but also on our own official statements and documents: "Global Youth Declaration of War against Ignorance", "Bill of Global Youth Rights", "Global Youth Code of Ethics" and the "Declaration of Social Interdependence, Economic Sovereignity and Financial Independence of Global Youth".

For that and other reasons, we have decided to start the process of establishing the World Youth Bank Network, our own public capital global venture, designed to promote and implement total empowerment of Youth and Civil Society, for full employment on every level and real equal rights for all human beings on this Planet.

 

 

BWI & WYB Network Common Pretext

Bretton Woods Institutions (World Bank Group, International Monetary Fund, GATT /World Trade Organisation) and World Youth Bank Network have one crucial thing in common - the social pretext.

While former global institutions were established at the very end of the World War II by an agreement between victorious Allied national governments in Bretton Woods resort, New Hampshire (USA) in 1944 (officially: "United Nations Monetary and Financial Conference"; attended by delegations of 44 states), the later is going to be established during the War Against Terrorism global Allied campaign, following the Recommendations of the "Brijuni Global Youth agreement Act" adopted by National Youth Councils and various international civil and youth organizations/institutions on Brijuni Islands in Croatia (Europe), during the World Assembly of Youth's regional youth conference "European Youth Dialogue", attended by Youth representatives from all over the World.

Bretton Woods agreement was projected for supposed post World War II stable and secure international socio-economic and political conditions after the (bloody and nuclear) defeat of nacism/fascism on global level, but Global Development obviously did not entirely go in the expected direction - today's World is unstable, unpredictable, complex, dynamic and undergoes constant and everlasting changes. This is why our New Global World requires New Global Institutions, as an sustainable update/upgrade and broadening of existing ones, one of whom will most assuredly be the World Youth Bank which starts its process of establishing immediately.

 

 

WYB's Anti-ignorance based Concept of Sustainable Development

Bretton Woods Institutions were founded on traditional anti-war development concept, with Peace and Coegsistence as its leading strategies (but with Cold War and Non-Alignment as its consequences!). In today's radically changed conditions and preconditions, the New State-of-the-World Affairs require a basically new type of management - recent terrorist threats of various kinds, types and range have shaken the very foundations of neoliberal Global Architecture, they have deepened our everyday fears and ruined our shaky confidence in existing traditional national and global institutions. We, the representatives of the Global Youth, have concluded that the main threat to our security in general is Ignorance-as-such, because it is definitely a root of all other evils, violence and terror on our unique planet. Our common "Global Youth War against Ignorance Declaration" is, for that reason, our "new global Youth strategy commonground" and the supreme public statement of our devoted dedication to Konowledge, Common Good, Truth and Justice which will lead us in all our further common sustainable development activities (be it social, economic or any other).

Global Security and Interculturalism, being the leading strategy policies of today's World, have put an extraordinary challenging task before the whole mankind, but Global Youth feels unjustly excluded from it today. Why is that so? Because social exclusion of Youth is an intergenerational and structurally unresolved thousand years' problem of the World from its very beginning to nowadays! As contemporary revolutionary ICT development has prepared pathways for the Intelligent Human Civilisation of the Future, it is high time for us now to start dealing with the unresolved problems of the past that are permanently ruining our Common Future, and even now the future of oncoming generations as well! And one of these crucial Global Problems of Today, one that is becoming more and more evident and is burdening us more and more with each passing day, is the multicomplex problem of Youth Exclusion on almost every social level (unemployment, underemployment, permanent growing-up crisis, child labour, youth abuse, undereducation, health undercare, unsecurity, etc).

 

 

WYB's Civil Banking Concept - Civil Society and Public Policies need new forms of Public Capital

Innovative, creative and intelligent merger of global, regional, national and local state and private capital funds in a new form of Public (civil) Capital is the very core of the Civil Banking Concept of the World Youth Bank Network. Sustained unification (capital quantum fusion - CQF) of the financial powers of traditionally divided social forces will most assuredly represent the "new turning point and quantum-leap ahead" for present World's declining, unjust, nontransparent and nonethical, generally speaking non-manageable, present economic system.

At this point, we have to remember UN Secretary General's Kofi Annan's words about the new, totally intelinked socio-economic environment of our new ICT World: "The United Nations once dealt only with Governments. By now we know that peace and prosperity cannot be achieved without partnerships involving Governments, international organizations, the business community and civil society. In today's world, we depend on each other."

As national states and Governments have their global financial interests represented in BWI and other international institutions, and as private enterpreneurship and businesses have their interests covered by commercial and other financial and banking systems, new emerging Civil Society and Global Youth will establish its own Global Youth Civil Banking & Financial Network (GYCBFN) represented by the World Youth Bank Network, because it is the only reasonable pathway for:

1. Global Youth to develop its own sustainable Future,

2. Civil Society to develop into a reliable socio-economic driving force of the oncoming Knowledge Society based upon the New ICT-intensive Economy, and

3. existing Global Institutions (BWI, etc) to transform into a "human-friendly" global sustainable economic environment.

Simply speaking, World Youth Bank is "good for business", but this time with young people on the top as its leading human capital asset and its leading "intelligent capital" resource! World Youth Bank Network will be founded by Youth, managed by Youth, it will permanently develop Youth in all aspects and will always belong to its sovereign stakeholders - the Global Youth! As an open democratic public structure and interactive public communications network, established by the World's National Youth Councils, other Youth and Civil Society organizations and institutions, the World Youth Bank Network (once established and fully operational), will have the institutional power of the umbrella Global Youth & Civil development Institution and will represent an earthly socio-economic "space-shield" for Global Youth and Civil Society forever!

 

Public (civil) Capital's "Full-employment" development strategy & public investment policy

Public (civil) Capital is to become a global "market maker" and, according to its socio-economic preconditions, the only sustainable "global employer", speaking in terms of its "full-employment for all" capital development strategy concept! In the existing traditional global financial and economic system, new capital has always produced new unemployment waves as its "natural" consequences. But, as in today's Global Digital World only new jobs create new capital (especially the most propulsive forms of intellectual capital), "new jobs creating capital development public policy" of WYB is the only way out of the "viscious circle of poverty" that our "good old World" is unstoppedly slipping into.

"New jobs creation" in present totally changed global economic conditions cannot be really sustainable if it continues to be "spontaneous", anarchy-driven, sporadic, selective, political-ideology intensive e.g. ruled only by the "sacred laws" of competitive and exclusive free-market economy. Intensive investment in systematic education and healthcare are the core foundations of any intelligent job creation strategy (be it either global, regional and local or state, private and civil). Sustainable intensive development of the "new intelligent capital" and new forms of its sustainable management are the key vehicles of world's sustainable development in general as well!

 

Youth & Civil Global Banking System - a sustainable management tool for quanitification of social interest

Youth Global Banking does not aim to separate interests of Youth and elders, but to unite them in a new and sustainable economic form - its aim is to produce New Social Sinergy by developing intelligent, transgenerational and sustainable system of the New knowledge-intensive Economy. Basically speaking, monetary system in general only represents an social agreement, an agreement traditionally prepared by elders, and this initiative for revolutionary disintermediation between Youth and financial funds/assets represents only Global Youth's claim for their legal and human right to equal social participation as a Road Map towards the participative democracy of the future, in this form strictly from the financial aspect of it. So, right to sustained and institutional Youth Banking represents in its core the Global Youth Right to free and democratic participation in all social processes that concerns them as free human beings.

Civil Banking concept represents the new sinergy of totally interconnected ideas (knowledge, information) and capital social forces in a brand new form of institutional "intelligent development management system" of WYB. Civil Banking will represent a wide broadening of the traditional banking concept based strictly on financial interests and exchange rates - in Civil Banking system the public social interest is of utmost importance, with financial indicators only as a "conceptual service" for sustainable and intelligent social development. This is why the development of methodology and technology for the quantification of social interest will be the top development priority of the World Youth Bank Network and its belonging institutions.

 

Conclusion and the implementation procedure

Global Youth require direct access to global finances, as UN Secretary General Mr. Kofi Annan has recently stated in his Recommendations for establishing the Youth Employment Network, "without waiting for Governments to tell them what to do"! Educated young people from the developed countries feel the burden of responsibility for their less happy young friends in less developed (undeveloped, underdeveloped, transitional, etc) countries and societies, but urgently require fast access to low-cost funds through dismediation process on all levels (especially economic).

Establishing of the World Youth Bank Network is a global "gold-mine" for the creation of thousands of new jobs for young people, a new global public finances platform for producing new "intelligent markets" in every part of the World and by this producing even more tens of thousands of new jobs worldwide, etc. Youth Global Banking with its Civil Capital concept (Real Public Development Funds) guarantee a sustainable development not only for exclusive segments of global population, but in the new form of intelligent sustainable development for all. As contemporary socio-economic theory proved without any doubt: there is an economic minimum needed for the development of democratic processes in any society, and the World Youth Bank Network is projected to be that civil tool on global level!

"Brijuni Global Youth Agreement Act" is an official World Assembly of Youth regional EYD Conference document which, together with the "CNYC Declaration of War against Ignorance" and "World

Youth Bank International Expert Economic Board Draft Feasibility Study - excerpts" form a "Preparatory set of World Youth Bank Network documents" for the "World Assembly of Youth Initiative for establishing the World Youth Bank Network" which will be presented at the WAY International Youth Dialogue (25-27. June, 2002), UN World Youth Forum in Dakar, Senegal (5-12. August 2002) as an integral part of the Global Youth Dakar 2002 Declaration to be adopted at UN General Assembly (EcoSoc session) in September 2002. in New York (USA).

"Brijuni Global Youth Agreement Act" is adopted by undersigned present youth leaders and representatives of present National Youth Councils. Other adoption signatures will be collected worldwide electronically or via mail.