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Members
Waode lornawati
Mush k zehra
Shaoyue
Ahmed hameed

Full form: Association of Southeast Asian Nations

Mission:to promote unity, prosperity, development and sustainability of the region, as well as working on solutions to resolve disputes and problems in the region. While mainly focusing on the Asia-Pacific nations, ASEAN also established communications with other parts of the world, to better promote world peace and stability. The organisation has a global reputation of promoting goodwill and diplomacy among nations, shutting out any biased opinion or decision, and carrying the principle of Non-Interference.

Vision:
We envision the ASEAN region to be, in 2020, in full reality, a Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality, as envisaged in the Kuala Lumpur Declaration of 1971.

ASEAN shall have, by the year 2020, established a peaceful and stable Southeast Asia where each nation is at peace with itself and where the causes for conflict have been eliminated, through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law and through the strengthening of national and regional resilience.

We envision a Southeast Asia where territorial and other disputes are resolved by peaceful means.

We envision the Treaty of Amity and Cooperation in Southeast Asia functioning fully as a binding code of conduct for our governments and peoples, to which other states with interests in the region adhere.

We envision a Southeast Asia free from nuclear weapons, with all the Nuclear Weapon States committed to the purposes of the Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapons Free Zone Treaty through their adherence to its Protocol. We also envision our region free from all other weapons of mass destruction.

We envision our rich human and natural resources contributing to our development and shared prosperity.

We envision the ASEAN Regional Forum as an established means for confidence-building and preventive diplomacy and for promoting conflict-resolution.

We envision a Southeast Asia where our mountains, rivers and seas no longer divide us but link us together in friendship, cooperation and commerce.

We see ASEAN as an effective force for peace, justice and moderation in the Asia-Pacific and in the world.4

Objectives: Objectives
The ASEAN Declaration states that the aims and purposes of the Association are: (1) to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development in the region through joint endeavors in the spirit of equality and partnership in order to strengthen the foundation for a prosperous and peaceful community of Southeast Asian nations, and (2) to promote regional peace and stability through abiding respect for justice and the rule of law in the relationship among countries in the region and adherence to the principles of the United Nations Charter. In 1995, the ASEAN Heads of State and Government re-affirmed that “Cooperative peace and shared prosperity shall be the fundamental goals of ASEAN.”

Members (no.): 10 members

Examples of countries involved: Brunei, Philippines, Indonesia, Myanmar, Laos, Malaysia, Cambodia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam

Current issue
At its most basic level, this a contest between China and several Southeast Asian nations over territorial control in the South China Sea, which includes some of the most strategically important maritime territory on earth.

China, for the past few years, has been asserting ever greater control over faraway waters that were previously considered international or were claimed by other countries. For example, it has seized small land formations or reefs, sometimes dredging up underwater sediment to make the islands large enough to support small military installations.
China’s naval forces have also grown more aggressive in patrolling these claims and chasing off non-Chinese ships. That is part of why its neighbors see this as an effort by China to dominate the region.
Zopfan
The Zone of Peace, Freedom and Neutrality (ZOPFAN) is a declaration signed by the Foreign Ministers of the ASEAN member states (Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand) on 1971 in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In the declaration, the parties publicly stated their intent to keep South East Asia "free from any form or manner of interference by outside Powers" and "broaden the areas of cooperation."

ASEAN plus 3
Asean Plus Three (APT) is a forum that functions as a coordinator of co-operation between the Association of Southeast Asian Nations and the three East Asia nations of China, Japan, and South Korea. Government leaders, ministers, and senior officials from the 10 members of the ASEAN and the three Northeast Asian states consult on an increasing range of issues

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Members:
Agnes Cherine
Aurelia Regina
Chalani
Chisato
Janelle
Malvino Wilian

NAM stands for Non-Aligned Movement

Objective = NAM has sought to "create an independent path in world politics that would not result in member States becoming pawns in the struggles between the major powers." It identifies the right of independent judgment, the struggle against imperialism and neo-colonialism, and the use of moderation in relations with all big powers as the three basic elements that have influenced its approach. At present, an addition goal is facilitating a restructuring of the international economic order.

120 Members. Example = Indonesia, Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Philipines, Timor Leste

Current issue :  A major question has been whether many of its foundational ideologies, principally national independence, territorial integrity, and the struggle against colonialism and imperialism, can be applied to contemporary issues. The movement has emphasised its principles of multilateralism, equality, and mutual non-aggression in attempting to become a stronger voice for the global South, and an instrument that can be utilised to promote the needs of member nations at the international level and strengthen their political leverage when negotiating with developed nations.

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ASEAN | ONE VISION ONE IDENTITY ONE COMMUNITY

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ASEAN | ONE VISION ONE IDENTITY ONE COMMUNITY

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▶ Members:
Amir Khan
Kumail
Naomi
Nouval
Reyner

▶ Full form:
Association Of South Asian Nations

▶ Purpose:
To accelerate economic growth, social progress, and cultural development in the region.
To promote regional peace and stability.
To promote Southeast Asian studies

▶ 10 Asian countries:
1. Brunei
2. Cambodia
3. Indonesia
4. Laos
5. Malaysia
6. Myanmar
7. Philippines
8. Singapore
9. Thailand
10. Vietnam

▶ Issue:
So they have concerns about  the reclamation and increase of activities in the South China sea between North Korea and China.

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Members :
irfaan
tasnia
nourhan
Lee Hyeonghun
Lee Hakhyun
LITERATURE REVIEW
Malaysia, as an Islamic country, and as one of the members of the Organization of the Islamic Conference, plays an important role in the organization. It can be seen from the numerous activities undertaken in different fields: political, economic and social. Scholars have written on various aspects of the OIC. The existing literature can be reviewed by dividing them into two parts: the literature dealing with the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), and the literature dealing with the contributions and roles played by Malaysia in different OIC activities.

Organization of the Islamic Conference
Abdullah al-Ahsan provides a detailed study of the OIC in a historical perspective. The idea of establishing an international organization consisting of Muslim countries

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was submitted to a Summit Conference of twenty four Muslim majority states held in Rabat, Morocco, in 1969 in response to the Jewish attack on the al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem. The OIC was formed to fight until the Palestinians have gained their “rights to freely exercise sovereignty over their land and national resources”, and “establish their independent state in Palestine with Jerusalem as its capital.”3 The OIC also resolved to achieve its goals by mobilizing all available resources of its member countries against Israel in the political, diplomatic military, economic, financial and cultural fields.

Naziruddin Abdullah looks at the economic cooperation among Muslim countries under the aegis of the OIC. He studies the Islamic Commission for Economic, Cultural and Social Affairs which was created to look after the OIC- sponsored economic co-operation activities in various fields. Since then, in the agenda of Muslim countries, economic co-operation has occupied much of the OIC economic activities.4 However, he argues that not much trade is taking place among Muslim countries.

According to Abdullah al-Ahsan, the strongest force inhibiting the success of the OIC is the idea of national sovereignty. The member states want to remain stronger than the mother organization because of their commitment to national sovereignty. Following the custom of modern international law based on the idea of national sovereignty, the OIC considers the problem of a particular nation within the ummah as a problem of the nation concerned.5

3 Abdullah al-Ahsan, (Unpublished) “Organization of Islamic Conference- An United Nations of Muslim countries?” in Conference on globalism and Muslim ummah (Selangor: IIUM, 1993), 3.
4 Naziruddin Abdullah, “Bilateral trade linkages among Muslim countries Vis-à-Vis the rest of The World: Some empirical evidence,” IKIM Journal, Vol.12 No.2 (July/December 2004), 31.

5 Abdullah al-Ahsan, “Cooperation for economic development among Muslim countries: The OIC experience,” IKIM Journal, Vol.5.No.1 (January/June 1997), 31.

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Ahmet Davutoglu explains the reasons for the emergence of the OIC. According to him, the Islamic summit after the attack on the al-Aqsa Mosque in 1969 and the establishment of the OIC reflect a psycho-political change in the body politic of the ummah. For the first time since the end of the caliphate, the political elites of the Muslim world found that they needed to cooperate to strengthen the international position of the Muslim world.6 This process might also be considered as a reflection of a confrontational relationship between countries with political power in the international system and the Muslim world. After this stage, all political pressures and oppressions coming from the power-centers in relation to the political problems of the Muslim world-such as the case of Palestine - accelerated the impetus of this cooperative approach.

The OIC, according to Abdul Rashid Moten, has also been concerned with “the escalation, the intensification of rivalries and conflicts in the world.”7 One of the goals of the OIC, it might be noted, is “to promote Islamic solidarity among member states and strengthen the struggle of all Muslims to safeguard their dignity, independence and national rights”. As yet, no concrete steps have been taken to transform these wishes into reality. It did convene a meeting of experts to formulate and recommend concrete measures for strengthening the security of the Islamic countries. The report submitted by the experts was approved at the fourteenth Conference of Foreign Ministers in 1983. The report was neither made public nor was any action seen to have been taken. There was also a proposal in 1981 for the OIC to establish an “Islamic office for military coordination with Palestine”. This was

6 Ahmet Davutoglu, (Unpublished) “Strategic parameters and geopolitics of the Muslim world: New challenges in the Post-Cold War Era” in Conference on globalism and Muslim ummah (Selangor: IIUM, 1993), 161.
7 Abdul Rashid Moten, “Overcoming dependency: Defense and security in the Muslim world,” Journal of Objective Studies, Vol.7, No.1 (1995), 20.

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followed three years later by the appointment of a retired Pakistani general to head the office. Nothing has been heard of since.

Abdullah al-Ahsan concurs with the above observations. He argues that the OIC has never used the term “collective security” in expressing its concern for the security of the Muslim states nor has the OIC countries ever sided with their fellow member countries when they become victims of superpower aggression. This suggests that the OIC countries will only express their sympathy for the security of their fellow Muslim countries, but they are not prepared to sacrifice their lives and wealth for the sake of their Muslim brothers in other countries.8

Amer al-Roubaie mentions that the rise of globalization and the end of the Cold War has brought Islam and the Muslims onto the global stage.9 The aggressive nature of the West as formulated in the propositions of the “Clash of Civilizations” and the “End of History” has further divided Muslims in response to Western challenges.10 As a group with divided ideologies and western orientations, the OIC continues to experience difficulties in agreeing on a unified platform for resolving internal problems as well as resisting external pressures. However, the adherence of the OIC to the Westphalian concept of state sovereignty has led to the avoidance of the discussions of domestic issues of member countries.11

Salina Yusuff and Badlihisham Mohd Nasir observe that for the last three decades of the existence of the OIC, a lot has been discussed in academic and nonacademic circles. There were various discussions regarding the issue of Muslim

8 Abdullah al-Ahsan, “Organization of the Islamic Conference - An united nations of Muslim countries?”, 201.
9 Amer al-Roubaie, “The Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC): Nations in search of unity,” Al-Shajarah, Vol.8, No.1 (2003), 1.

10 See Samuel P. Huntington, The clash of civilizations and the remaking of world order (New York: Touchstone, 1997) and Francis Fukuyama, The end of history and the last man (New York: Aron Books, 1992).
11 Amer al-Roubaie, 1.

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unity, Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries, the justification of the role of the OIC at the international level and the like.12 However, as Mir Zohair Husain points out, the OIC is hardly a vision of Pan-Islamism or of Islamic solidarity even though the organization has made serious and concerted strides towards Muslim unity culturally, intellectually, economically and politically over the last two decades, often through various subsidiaries or affiliated institutions.13 The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) for example, was established in 1975 by the finance ministers of OIC member nations in an effort “to encourage economic and social progress of member countries and Muslim communities in accordance with the principle of the Islamic Shari’ah.”14 The IDB, abiding by Islamic law, forbids usury and provides interest-free loans, charging only a service fee. These loans are granted to the poorest member states so that they can attend to their most urgent socioeconomic problems. The IDB also encourages investments within and joint ventures among member states. Moreover the IDB’s special assistance account renders emergency financial aid and promotes Islamic education to Muslims living outside OIC member countries.

Ismail Suny adds that in the current international level, the Organization of the Islamic Conference is of paramount importance. It exists amidst a situation where the global economic situation is replete with hope overcast by uncertainties. Despite signs of global economic recovery, growing interdependence among countries, and an increase of commitments to partnership in international economic relations, little or no tangible benefits have accrued to the developing countries to which most of the OIC member states belong.15

12 Salina Binti Yusuff and Badlihisham Mohd Nasir, “OIC dan aspirasi dakwah [OIC and the inspiration of dakwah ],” Jurnal Yadim, No.6 (April 2005), 11.
13 Mir Zohair Husain, Global Islamic politics (United States: Priscilla McGeehon, 2003), 216.
14 Ibid., 218.

15 Ismail Suny, The Organization of the Islamic Conference (Jakarta: Pustaka Sinar Harapan, 2000), ix. 7

Members of the OIC are not united in political terms either. This is because, as Haider Mehdi points out, among the objective of the OIC are the “cooperation among Member States in the economic, social, cultural and scientific” fields, it determinedly disregards political cooperation.16

Malaysia and OIC
There are scholarly works that deal with the linkage between Malaysia and the OIC. Hussin Mutalib stresses the contribution of Tengku Abdul Rahman by highlighting his initiative in pioneering numerous schemes that benefit the Muslim world.17 Many of the existing international Islamic institutions owe their genesis to his initiative, including the Islamic Development Bank, the Islamic Solidarity Fund, the Islamic Foreign Ministers’ Conference, the King Faisal Foundation, the Islamic Research and News Agency, the World Islamic Missionary Organization and, as earlier indicated, the Regional Islamic Organization for Southeast Asia and the Pacific (RISEAP).

It was undoubtedly in recognition of these contributions that two major international Muslim awards were conferred on him in 1983: the inaugural “Hijrah Award” from Pakistan and the “King Faisal Award” from Saudi Arabia. Abdullah al- Ahsan stresses that Malaysia under the leadership of Tengku Abdul Rahman as the OIC Secretary-General, got OIC involved in the settlement of the conflict between Bangladesh and Pakistan.18 As the Secretary General, he visited both parts of Pakistan in an effort to find a political solution to the conflict. Tengku Abdul Rahman was entrusted to mediate and establish contact with both Pakistani and Bangladeshi

16 Quoted in Naveed S. Sheikh, The new politics of Islam: Pan-Islam foreign policy in a world of states (London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003), 8.
17 Hussin Mutalib, Islam and ethnicity in Malay politics (Singapore: Oxford University Press Pte.Ltd.,

1990), 96.
18 Abdullah al-Ahsan, “Conflict among Muslim nation: Role of OIC in conflict resolution,” Intellectual

Discourse, Vol.12, No. 2 (2004) 141.

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authorities after Bangladesh officially became an independent country at the end of 1971 following the military defeat of the Pakistani armed forces in the Eastern wing of Pakistan.

Abu Hassan Omar claims that Malaysia’s election to the various committees in the OIC proves that Malaysia enjoys the confidence of the OIC. It reflects the seriousness that Malaysia attaches to the collective efforts to ensure a better future for the Muslim ummah.19 Malaysia had successfully hosted the fifth Islamic Conference of Foreign Minister (ICFM) in Kuala Lumpur in 1974 and offered Kuala Lumpur as the venue for the 27th Session of the Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers in June 2000.20

According to Mohamad Abu Bakar, Muslim unity and Islamic solidarity became a popular theme in international relations among Muslim countries, and acquired special appeal following the burning of the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in 1967. According to him, throughout the seventies in particular, Malaysia was very much in the mainstream of international Islamic politics and was an active participant in the International Islamic Conference of Foreign Ministers.21 Kuala Lumpur hosted the fifth meeting of the grouping. Invariably, Malaysia began to develop a pro-Islam foreign policy, with fraternity of faith becoming a popular point of reference in its approach to the problem of Muslim unity.

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Name:
- Evie Yulianita (0328892)
- Yarona Yunu (0329507)
- Felicia Silmia A ( 0329791)
- Arafat Kabir (0327890)
- Mohanad Hamdeh (0331855)
- Zaima Abrar Sultana (0309177)
- Anila Nur Sidiqa (0329565)
- Xiong Siying (0326206)

Mission:
- Timely, credible and reliable information
- Effective, accessible, science-based system
- Unique integrating role on the environment
- Stimulate greater involvement of regional and sectoral stakeholders

Vision:
- Set the global environmental agenda
- Analyze the state of global environment
- Assess global and regional environmental trends
- Provide early warning information on environmental threats

Objective:
- Peace keeping and security by send peacekeepers to regions where conflict had recently ceased
- Human Rights: It promotes respect for fundamental freedom for all
- To develop and provide humanitarian assistance under the authority of the General Assembly and ECOSOC UN works to solve economic international problems

Members: 193 members

Current issues:
-malaysia's anti-terror and sedition "curtail"  laws. The United Nations human rights office today urged Malaysian authorities to immediately stop investigations and prosecutions under a 1948 law that curbed free speech and freedom of expression in the South-east Asian nation.
-In Malaysia, Ban calls for stronger cooperation from Southeast Asian countries to tackle global crises

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Names:
- Nelson
-Naomi Nibenia
-Christiyanti
-Richard
-Natacia
-Ihsan
-Abdirahman

Vision: To help create and sustain a Commonwealth that is mutually respectful, resilient, peaceful and prosperous and that cherishes equality, diversity and shared values.
Mission: To support member governments and partner with the broader Commonwealth family and others to improve the well-being of all Commonwealth citizens and to advance their shared interests globally.
It was initially known as the British Commonwealth. It has 52 members , 3 in Europe , 1 in South America , 7 in Asia, 11 in Oceania.
Commonwealth organizations are involved in diverse activities, from helping countries with trade negotiations to encouraging women's leadership, building the small business sector , supporting youth participation at all levels of society and providing experts to write laws.
Every four years the Commonwealth members put together the Commonwealth Games, hosted in a different city each time. 71 nations participate, including all the commonwealth countries. The next Commonwealth games will be held in Gold coast, Australia in 2018. Every two years they the member countries meet to discuss issues affecting the Commonwealth and the wider world at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). The Commonwealth awards over 900 scholarships and fellowships for postgraduate study and provisional development to Commonwealth citizens each year.

Problems of the Commonwealth of nations:
-Compliance
-Absence of a standing army
-Differences in ideology
-Importance of the Commonwealth
-Instability of regimes
-Membership of other organizations
-The East- West ideological divide

Commonwealth theme for 2017:
-A peace building Commonwealth.