Welcome to the Global Solutions for Peace, Equality, and Sustainability: Building a More Just World. This course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the proposals for reform or replacement of the United Nations (UN), guided by the open-access book Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century. It provides an opportunity for participants to probe the worldviews of the UN’s founders and their intentions to ensure that the great powers of 1945 would continue to hold power and explore how reforming the UN can potentially benefit a new and ever-changing world.

This course is designed to help learners from diverse backgrounds:

1. Understand the built-in flaws of the UN 
2. Explore proposals for reform or replacement of the UN
3. Apply the knowledge gained

The Global Solutions for Peace, Equality, and Sustainability course was created by Dr. Mary-Wynne Ashford in collaboration with the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War Canada and was designed by the NextGenU.org team: Pablo Baldiviezo, MD, DiplEd; Reisha Narine MSc, BSc; Hugo Rojas, MD, MSc, DiplEd; Stephanie Sankar, LLB, LEC. 

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 There are 5 modules to complete, which provide an introduction to:

• Module 1: United Nations
• Module 2: Global Security and Health
• Module 3: Climate Change and International Anti-Corruption Court
• Module 4: Human Rights and People
• Module 5: Governing Our Climate Future

   

The completion time for this course is estimated at 54.5 hours, comprising 18.5 hours of learning resources, 18.5 hours of time to study content and assimilation, and 17 hours of participating in learning activities and quizzes, to assist the learners in the synthesis of learning materials.

After you’ve completed each module and learning activity, at the end of the course, you’ll have access to a final exam consisting of 20 multiple-choice questions, and a chance to evaluate this course. Participants have up to three opportunities to take the final exam and achieve the required score of >=70%.

Once you’ve passed the last test, you will be able to download a certificate of completion from NextGenU.org. We keep all of your personal information confidential, never sell any of your information, and only use anonymized data for research purposes. Also, we are happy to report your testing information and share your work with anyone (your school, employer, etc.) at your request. 

You may browse this course for free to learn for your personal enrichment; there are no requirements.

To obtain a certificate, a learner must first register for the course and then successfully complete:

• All the reading requirements,
• All the learning activities,
• The final exam with a minimum of 70% and a maximum of 3 attempts, and
• The self and course evaluation forms.

To obtain credit:

• Complete all requirements listed above for the certificate, and
• Your learning institution or workplace should approve the partner-university-sponsored NextGenU.org course for educational credit, as they would for their learner taking a course anywhere.  

NextGenU.org is happy to provide your institution with:

• A link to and description of the course training, so they can see all its components, including the cosponsoring universities and other professional organization cosponsors; 
• Your grade on the final exam;
• Your work products and any other required or optional shared materials that you produce and authorize to share with them;  
• Your evaluations -- course, and self-assessments;
• A copy of your certificate of completion, with the co-sponsoring universities and other organizations listed.

To obtain a degree, NextGenU.org co-sponsors degree programs with institutional partners. To obtain a full degree co-sponsored with NextGenU.org, registrants must be enrolled in a degree program as a student of a NextGenU.org institutional partner. If you think that your institution might be interested in offering a degree with NextGenU.org contact us.

We hope that you will find this a rewarding learning experience, and we count on your assessment and feedback to help us improve this training for future students.

Here are the next steps to take the course and earn a certificate.

* This course is sponsored in part by the Annenberg Physician Training Program: Abstinence-based Recovery from Addictive Disease. Click here to see curricular threading related to substance use.