The success of the last decades with Economic Globalisation has produced significant, dangerous side-effects. To rebalance this success into a healthy society, we better develop and equally performative Political Globalisation. The core of this re-balancing process is the reform of the current United Nations Organisations towards a Global Democratic Republic by reforming the current United Nations charter.
According to our mission, we are committed to transforming the current United Nations organisations into a new and significantly more impactful, high-performance United Nations (UN). From an organisational development perspective, this will be a highly intense change process from the old to the new and will take several decades of development. The success story of the European Union (EU) development serves as a potential role model for this transformation.
Here is our most concrete concept for a first, realistic, and successful UN charter development, which includes 5 concrete steps:
(1) Renew the United Nations Financial System
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- The current UN financing system is highly fragmented, and contributions vary significantly in terms of the percentage of Gross National Income (GNI).
- More than 80% of the UN budget currently consists of earmarked funds.
- Voluntary contributions (which are often earmarked) make up the vast majority of funding for many UN agencies and funds (like UNICEF, UNHCR, WFP).
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- The new financing is based on a fixed percentage of Gross National Income (GNI).
- It includes a global binding market for “greenhouse gas” (GHG) emissions.
- A global financial transaction tax (Tobin tax) finances all peacekeeping, peacebuilding, and disarmament activities.
(2) Renew the United Nations Security Council
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- The current UN Security Council (UNSC) is dominated by the five permanent members with veto power.
- The UNSC has no obligation whatsoever to the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
- The UNSC is very weakly/not democratically legitimised.
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- The voting power within the UNSC is based on the population represented.
- The UNSC consists only of representatives from regions (e.g., North America) and/or supranational organisations (e.g., the European Union, the African Union).
- The UN General Assembly (UNGA) has to approve the UNSC decisions by a simple majority.
- The UNSC can carry out global referenda on specific topics (e.g., related to Sustainable Development Goals).
(3) Renew the United Nations General Assembly
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- The current UN General Assembly (UNGA) is based on ‘one country, one vote‘.
- The UNGA decisions carry no obligation for the UNSC.
- The UNGA is very weakly/not democratically legitimised.
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- The voting power within the UNGA is based on Gross National Income (GNI).
- The UNSC is obliged to discuss proposals with a two-thirds majority in the UNGA.
(4) Develop new United Nations Global Democracy
The new UN Global Democracy (UNGD) entity will carry out global direct democracy by global e-voting on specific questions – starting with a first official global referendum on ‘climate action’.
(5) Consolidate the United Nations organisations
The current 60+ UN organisations (programmes, agencies, funds, research & training, special offices & departments, commissions & committees, et al.) will be integrated into the UN governance and financing system, all redundancies will be eliminated, and clear organisational mission statements will be developed.
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our actions focus – develop political globalisation:
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A new United Nations charter now!
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Global Democracy Forum
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our actions focus – develop global democracy:
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Our new world with global democracy
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the crystal
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Decision spaces
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Supranational Democracy Dialogue
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