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The United Nations' 2005 World Summit was to be the UN's once-in-a-generation opportunity for reform, perhaps even a second San Francisco. The Summit’s outcome, however, was rather disillusioning for many observers, not only regarding a possible expansion of the Security Council. The heads of state and government assembled in New York missed the opportunity to reach agreement on most of the proposed reform concepts.
The authors of Policy Paper 24 – Professor Lothar Brock and Professor Tanja Brühl, both from the University of Frankfurt/Main – recall that reforming the UN is an evolutionary process requiring not only political will but also patience. In this sense and on the basis of a thorough analysis of the Summit's outcome, they come forward with proposals on how to further strengthen collective action for securing peace. Recommendations on how to further design the new but vaguely defined instruments adopted in New York are followed by more general considerations on the threat of softening the ban on the use of force or on problems like “delegated” actions for securing peace.
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