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How the UN Can Make the Most of the New Agenda for Peace
The UN Secretary-General has encountered resistance to many of the ideas for strengthening international peace and security he laid out in a July policy brief.
Achieving consensus on large-scale multilateral reform will be hard, but a summit in 2024 is a focus for limited innovation.
- Richard Gowan
- ICG
While the wars in the Middle East and Ukraine dominate discussions at the UN, diplomats are preparing for negotiations leading up to a Summit of the Future, which Secretary-General António Guterres will convene in September 2024.
Guterres has flagged this special meeting as an opportunity for leaders to take a root-and-branch look at the…