The United Nations: No Hope for Reform?
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Utopia is a notion that is inevitably in the eye of the beholder, but the assumption of this analysis is that a strengthened and more efficient UN has the capacity to contribute in essential ways to more effective global governance arrangements. This chapter identifies various steps that would promote the type of realistically utopian reform that this volume seeks to identify. They include the following. Amending the Charter to eliminate the Trusteeship Council and ideally also the Economic and Social Council; ensuring sustainable financing for core UN activities. Promoting a ‘One UN’ approach to on the ground service delivery, but complementing this with a more consultative approach to local actors. Becoming more media savvy. Making vastly better use of new information and communications technologies; moving towards a ‘smart’ and knowledgeable Secretariat. And finally, devoting more resources to three substantive areas (electoral assistance; development of a police rapid response capacity; tackling corruption at the national level).
Source Publication
Realizing Utopia: The Future of International Law
Source Editors/Authors
Antonio Cassese
Publication Date
2012
Recommended Citation
Alston, Philip G., "The United Nations: No Hope for Reform?" (2012). Faculty Chapters. 29.
https://gretchen.law.nyu.edu/fac-chapt/29
