Interstellar CVOs/NGOs in the OTU

[Agemegos]

G'day

Non-Government Organisations or Civil Volunteer Organisations have been important in international affairs on Earth at least since taking up the cause to abolish the slave trade in 1787. Since then there have been important international NGOs dedicated to protecting civilians, the wounded, and prisoners of war from superfluous suffering in wars, disaster relief, economic development and the amelioration of poverty, promoting public health and sanitation, improving agronomical practice, controlling populations, promoting literacy, promoting education, improving the status of women, abolishing child labour, preventing cruelty to animals, protecting wildlife, promoting sustainable development, promoting democracy, liberty, the rule of law, resisting arbitrary detention, cultural exchanges, preservation of heritage genomes, sharing scientific knowledge, furthering nuclear disarmament, and so on for pages and pages.

What such NGOs have been established in the canon of the OTU? The Travellers' Aid Society. Any others?

What issues and causes are there in the OTU that seem likely call an NGO into existence?


- Brett

 

[aramis]

Society for the Sovereignity of Man over Machine, SSMM. Radical anti-cybernetics/anti-automation group in coreward areas of the Imperium, though they extend throughout the imperium with some minor adherent base.

Octagon Society (defunct by 1105). Built octagonal shelters as hostels for travellers.

Those and TAS are the only ones which pop immediately to mind.

Well, SMART might actually be one as well... they were spawned by the regency government to spread library data.

 

[Icosahedron]

G'day

Non-Government Organisations or Civil Volunteer Organisations have been important in international affairs on Earth at least since taking up the cause to abolish the slave trade in 1787. Since then there have been important international NGOs dedicated to protecting civilians, the wounded, and prisoners of war from superfluous suffering in wars, disaster relief, economic development and the amelioration of poverty, promoting public health and sanitation, improving agronomical practice, controlling populations, promoting literacy, promoting education, improving the status of women, abolishing child labour, preventing cruelty to animals, protecting wildlife, promoting sustainable development, promoting democracy, liberty, the rule of law, resisting arbitrary detention, cultural exchanges, preservation of heritage genomes, sharing scientific knowledge, furthering nuclear disarmament, and so on for pages and pages.

Sorry, I just had to:

Doesn't it make you wonder exactly what we employ a government for?

 

[Poor Merchant]

G'day

Non-Government Organisations or Civil Volunteer Organisations have been important in international affairs on Earth at least since taking up the cause to abolish the slave trade in 1787. Since then there have been important international NGOs dedicated to protecting civilians, the wounded, and prisoners of war from superfluous suffering in wars, disaster relief, economic development and the amelioration of poverty, promoting public health and sanitation, improving agronomical practice, controlling populations, promoting literacy, promoting education, improving the status of women, abolishing child labour, preventing cruelty to animals, protecting wildlife, promoting sustainable development, promoting democracy, liberty, the rule of law, resisting arbitrary detention, cultural exchanges, preservation of heritage genomes, sharing scientific knowledge, furthering nuclear disarmament, and so on for pages and pages.

What such NGOs have been established in the canon of the OTU? The Travellers' Aid Society. Any others?

What issues and causes are there in the OTU that seem likely call an NGO into existence?


- Brett

Shouldn't Churches fall within this definition? After all, churches have featured in most of the activities featured above.

You could develop some scenarios with Church Missions on lower tech worlds seeking to help the natives - or convert them (or both), or possibly something along the lines of the Da Vinci Code (okay this is the one book I put aside after 20 pages because it was so awful) with members of a church hunting down someone or something, or characters could encounter a senior church figure with good or bad results for the future.

Or how about a monastery planet where the inhabitants seek to preserve the knowledge of the universe for future generations (like monasteries during our own Dark Ages) - it might be logical to have branches across the universe both for information gathering and so all their eggs were not in one basket - players could encounter Monks gathering knowledge during their travels.

Religious schisms could be the rationale for a conflict - in short all the good stuff churches have done for us in our history.