Let’s say the big one has happened. The global accident has emerged, there is panic and disruption all over the world. Civil wars rage, nation-states crumble and corporations implode. Who is in charge? A good case could be made to say that it’s the United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Building on a 1971 resolution, the UN formed OCHA in 1991 to coordinate ‘humanitarian assistance’ during ‘disasters and emergency situations’. Since then, OCHA has been active in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. OCHA deployed the Standby Volunteer Task Force (SBTF) for the first time in 2011 to create a live crisis map of Libya and they have employed them many times since. Is OCHA a potential seat of emergency world government? Read the text of the 1991 UN resolution – http://www.un.org/documents/ga/res/46/a46r182.htm