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Relations between various entities are the key a community’s success and prosperity. Communication among different entities brings awareness about different problems and allows people to come up with creative solutions to prevalent issues.

In this way, the United Nations (UN), donor agencies, and NGOs have played the role of catalyst in managing better relations in the fields of peace building, humanitarian response, science and technology, business, commerce, banking, education and health. It has also managed and provided platforms to different entities to resolve issues by finding sustainable solutions. It has been 70 years that international community (the UN) is facing the challenges in many ways. Like NGOs have to face challenges in the community even they opt to intervene in their long-stood problems whether it is awareness on education or building consensus on fighting effects of climate change, the humanitarian response is always rejected to accept at first hand.

But better communication layers implemented among various organizations have assured other national and international organisations and corporations that there will be better investment in different sectors and industries in Pakistan.

In the modern era, people are dependent on various state and private institutions for their needs. Therefore, people, organisations, corporations, and countries should stand with the UN to improve the lives of the global community.

There are many ways states can foster better relations with their fellow countries. These includes giving academic scholarships to students from different countries, organizing international fairs and seminars as well as organising cultural exchanges.

The UN must design, develop, and implement those projects and programs which aim to achieve peace at the ground level while taking into account the cultural, social and religious sentiments of vulnerable communities in developing countries

In addition, a good communication environment and better flow of community relations in different countries can create investment in various sectors but particularly in the oil and gas sector where they have been willing to work over surveying, producing, and exploring minerals through mutual agreements.

All countries should play their due role in managing international peace for the betterment of people everywhere. Those international welfare organisations which are currently working in or over one hundred countries must spread awareness about the importance of community relations by organising seminars in schools, colleges, universities, libraries, public parks and newspapers. Such good deeds ensure students and professionals of different organization get a better education, ad get a sense of co-operation, and creates a sense of goodwill.

The UN must design, develop, and implement those projects and programs which aim at achieving peace on the ground level while taking cultural, social and religious factors of vulnerable communities in developing countries into account.

Moreover, the international community must fund empirical research on eliminating bad governance which leads to conflicts. It should also create partnerships with those institutions which are working on providing academics about water and conducts research too like US Pakistan Centres of Advanced Studies in Water (USPCAS-W) at Mehran University of Engineering and Technology (MUET), Jamshoro.

The writer is a columnist and development researcher. He is currently working as Monitoring, Evaluation, Accountability, and Learning (MEAL) Officer at Sindh Rural Support Program at Hyderabad. Email furqanhyders@gmail.com and Tweets @furqanppolicy

Published in Daily Times, June 26^th 2018.