How can national parliaments best work together?
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About the video: ‘How can national parliaments best work together?’
Dunlop maintains that there is a pressing need for better international response to challenges of the 21st Century such as climate change and AIDS. Old procedures for negotiating binding international treaties are much too cumbersome to deal with such matters effectively. All to often these serve merely as a delaying tactic for those with vested interests. By linking up elected governments from around the world, e-Parliament can speed up national responses.
Total views: 1,491
Filmed: Geneva, Switzerland on 20 May 2006
Credits: Interviewer - Marcus Morrell, Camera and Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2006 Big Picture TV
About Nicholas Dunlop
Nicholas Dunlop is co-founder and Secretary-General of e-Parliament, an initiative to link up the world’s democratic members of parliament and congress into a global forum. He was previously Secretary-General of Parliamentarians for Global Action. In 1984, he coordinated the launching of the Six Nation Peace Initiative, bringing together a group of heads of government to work on nuclear weapons issues.
Since 2007 he’s a council member of the World Food Council.
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