The Disarmament and International Security Council (DISEC) is currently discussing how to best deal with the piracy crimes across the globe. Currently the main motions on the floor are discussing the military and economic strategies of dealing with piracy. Piracy has long plagued all the seven seas, and it’s about time DISEC stepped up to combat it.
Countries have decided to debate both the economic and possible military solutions to piracy over the seas. The military solutions proposed could have increased communication and foreign aid, while the economic solutions propose are based around whom to fund to have the most effect solution to these issues. The main division is between funding private agencies for defence, and funding public foreign aid.
Countries such as India wish to promote the free market, to increase trade between nations and increasing protection for vessels naturally economically. Secondly, this delegate wishes to fight piracy by funding private security measures in order to help vessels independently defend themselves. These private security measures would also promote a free market allowing for this ‘protection’ to become a monetary issue, deciding that the richest vessels could defend against pirates.
Many of the other delegates are debating on publicly funding foreign aid so that the countries have independent communal power to protect themselves with. However, some countries in the DISEC committee have raised concerns with sovereignty if this happened, with foreign agencies coming into the committee possibly upsetting the global community more than pirates ever could. There are many concerns around the precedent that allowing one countries agency to run amok in an issue such as piracy would set, as challenging sovereignty never has good consequences.
While it is hard to say exactly what will come next from DISEC and whether we can expect defence to become public or private (even if public defence has more support currently), it is hopeful that a swift solution to pirates will be found.
Countries have decided to debate both the economic and possible military solutions to piracy over the seas. The military solutions proposed could have increased communication and foreign aid, while the economic solutions propose are based around whom to fund to have the most effect solution to these issues. The main division is between funding private agencies for defence, and funding public foreign aid.
Countries such as India wish to promote the free market, to increase trade between nations and increasing protection for vessels naturally economically. Secondly, this delegate wishes to fight piracy by funding private security measures in order to help vessels independently defend themselves. These private security measures would also promote a free market allowing for this ‘protection’ to become a monetary issue, deciding that the richest vessels could defend against pirates.
Many of the other delegates are debating on publicly funding foreign aid so that the countries have independent communal power to protect themselves with. However, some countries in the DISEC committee have raised concerns with sovereignty if this happened, with foreign agencies coming into the committee possibly upsetting the global community more than pirates ever could. There are many concerns around the precedent that allowing one countries agency to run amok in an issue such as piracy would set, as challenging sovereignty never has good consequences.
While it is hard to say exactly what will come next from DISEC and whether we can expect defence to become public or private (even if public defence has more support currently), it is hopeful that a swift solution to pirates will be found.